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Sound walk SWS24 2024

Harleigh Fungalford Castle: an audio guide to an imagined heritage ruin

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Harleigh Fungalford Castle: an audio guide to a fictional heritage ruin
Multiple locations
40 minutes
Free

heritage

5 sub-collections · 120 items

More-than-human

Collection · 16 items

Regions

England

Region · 76 sub-regions · 887 items

Wales

Region · 8 sub-regions · 58 items

heritage

5 sub-collections · 120 items

More-than-human

Collection · 16 items

Regions

England

Region · 76 sub-regions · 887 items

Wales

Region · 8 sub-regions · 58 items
This sound walk through an imaginary castle can be performed at any 'heritage' site. The guide challenges how visitors experience the prompts of historical interpretation by adding layers of imagined history that are mysterious and arbitrary. The style imitates conventional interpretive audio guides, before revealing a narrative that is non-didactic, destabilizing, weird and comical. I made space for class commentary and for including the more-than-human. This audio was mostly improvised while walking and slightly refined afterwards. It was then recorded at five different sites, including two Norman ruined castles, one in England and one in Wales and a Neolithic burial chamber. You may begin this walk anywhere. It is intended to take 25-45 minutes.

This sound walk through an imaginary castle can be performed at any ‘heritage’ site. The guide challenges how visitors experience the prompts of historical interpretation by adding layers of imagined history that are mysterious and arbitrary. The style imitates conventional interpretive audio guides, before revealing a narrative that is non-didactic, destabilizing, weird and comical. I made space for class commentary and for including the more-than-human.

This audio was mostly improvised while walking and slightly refined afterwards. It was then recorded at five different sites, including two Norman ruined castles, one in England and one in Wales and a Neolithic burial chamber. You may begin this walk anywhere. It is intended to take 25-45 minutes.

APA style reference

Rothstein, K. (2024). Harleigh Fungalford Castle: an audio guide to an imagined heritage ruin. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/harleigh-fungalford-castle-an-audio-guide-to-a-fictional-heritage-ruin/

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Added by Bill Psarras
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