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SWS24 2023

Greenwich Foot Tunnel

Greenwich Foot Tunnel, London, UK
11 minutes
Free

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Sound walk

On my first visit to the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, I decided to stick a field recorder in my backpack and walk from the south side to the north side of the tunnel. The recording starts as I descend the stairwell in the south entrance, with a few voices and hums, builds as the tunnel reverberates the sound of people walking in both directions, along with bike chains and a busker setting up, before reducing to a calm climb of the north entrance stair well. Taking a sonic snapshot of an urban location, detaches from the initial multi-sensory experience, generating a new and ambiguous lens. Listening back conjures images of a theatre of steadily rising and falling chaos, reflections and echoes advancing and retreating in synchronicity with the activity.

Credits

Matthew Faulkner

APA style reference

Faulkner, M. (2023). Greenwich Foot Tunnel. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/greenwich-foot-tunnel/

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soak

To walk slowly and heavily along, as in “I must soak home and get a bite to eat.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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