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Extreme Slow Walk

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Embodiment or Mind Body Connection

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slow walking

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Sub-collection

Embodiment or Mind Body Connection

Sub-collection · 28 items

Scores

Collection · 36 items
Sub-collection

slow walking

Sub-collection · 13 items

Related

Walking piece

Walking Piece

Yoko Ono’s Walking Piece (Grapefruit, 1964) turns walking into art: follow another’s footsteps silently across varied terrains, fostering mindfulness, bodily awareness, and making the enactment of the instruction the artwork itself.

Yoko Ono
Walking piece

Stand Erect

Benjamin Patterson’s Stand Erect (1961) exemplifies walking instructions as art, focusing on movement patterns. The participant becomes part of the artwork, while Patterson guides and controls the body, mediating between the actor and their physicality.

Benjamin Patterson
Sound walk

Détournement: Major Tom’s Social, July 2015

A dubbed sound walk. Field recording caught using binaural microphones and remixed using heavy delay and bright reverb. Because it was recorded using binaural mics – it is best listened to on headphones.

Andrew Backhouse
Curated news

Sounding Art Trail: Listening to a Trail | Culture Routes Society

The UK leg of the Sounding Art Trail project, coordinated by the Culture Routes Society and supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture programme, has been successfully completed along the North Downs Way route. Aiming to draw attention to points along walking routes at risk due to climate change through sound and art, this project seeks

Extreme Slow Walk is an exercise where participants move as slowly as possible, shifting weight with awareness. By disrupting habitual rhythm, it sharpens perception of breath, balance, and subtle bodily sensations.

The Exercise:

Moving as slowly as possible, step forward with the heel to the ground first, let the weight of the body shift along the outside edge of the foot to the small toe and across to the large toe.
As the weight of the body fully aligns with that foot then begin the transition of shifting to the other foot.
Small steps are recommended as balance may be challenged.
Maintain good posture, with shoulders relaxed and head erect. use your breathing.
The challenge for this exercise is that no matter how slow you are walking, you can always go much slower.

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Commentary:

The purpose of the exercise is to challenge your normal pattern or rhythm of walking so that you can learn to reconnect with very subtle energies in the body as the weight shifts from side to side in an extremely slow walk.
You may discover the point-to-point connections of movement and/or the merging into
the experience of flow.
The extreme slow walk may be practiced any time. Variations that are added in class: Walk with music.
Walk with eyes closed.
Walk singing long tones – one per breath.
Walk backwards.

Source: Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice

APA style reference

Oliveros, P. (2005). Extreme Slow Walk. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/extreme-slow-walk/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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