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Heat Walk

Walking in the Heat of Phoenix - 2024
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

field recordings

Collection · 43 items

Heat

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human

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water

4 sub-collections · 82 items

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Anja Podreka

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100 Circles

Lenzie Moss is a designated Local Nature Reserve in East Dunbartonshire, near the city of Glasgow, UK. It is a boggy and marshy area with a history of peat extraction. The Moss now serves as a vital habitat for diverse wildlife, including water vole and bog rosemary, and the green hairstreak butterfly, alongside areas of silver birch woodland. My name is David Overend. I moved to the edge of Lenzie Moss in the summer of 2023 and began to regularly take the 25 minute walk round its border, sometimes daily. I have walked with friends, my children, and once with an expert on water vole habitats. Mainly I have walked alone: as a break from work; to start the day with some fresh air; in search of kestrels and deer. Every time I complete the circle, I notice, learn or experience something new. The walk has become something of a ritual, a way of marking the change in the seasons. Since I started to follow this route, I have had the feeling that there is more to discover and that this repeated circular walk might lead me somewhere. So, I am walking it 100 more times, each time with a different person from the local community, or a visiting artist or researcher with some interest in peatlands. As I share these encounters on this blog, I hope that a co-authored text will emerge, bringing a series of walked dialogues to a wider readership, and perhaps finding a way for the Moss to tell its stories. If you would like to be part of this project and join me for a walk round Lenzie Moss, please get in touch.

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Listening through layers of land

With Shore Land, JeeYeung Lee has created a sound walk that contemplates Chicago's lakefront as a liminal space between land and water, simultaneously a public good, treaty violation, and strategy to suppress insurgence.

JeeYeun Lee
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Encountering the many forms of water

With Only glaciers know, Yanran Bi discusses the complicated interconnections between human beings and the landscape of Iceland through a sonic documentary and poetic fiction.

Yanran Bi

field recordings

Collection · 43 items

Heat

Collection · 1 items

human

Collection · 5 items

water

4 sub-collections · 82 items

Related

url

Anja Podreka

Website about my work

url

100 Circles

Lenzie Moss is a designated Local Nature Reserve in East Dunbartonshire, near the city of Glasgow, UK. It is a boggy and marshy area with a history of peat extraction. The Moss now serves as a vital habitat for diverse wildlife, including water vole and bog rosemary, and the green hairstreak butterfly, alongside areas of silver birch woodland. My name is David Overend. I moved to the edge of Lenzie Moss in the summer of 2023 and began to regularly take the 25 minute walk round its border, sometimes daily. I have walked with friends, my children, and once with an expert on water vole habitats. Mainly I have walked alone: as a break from work; to start the day with some fresh air; in search of kestrels and deer. Every time I complete the circle, I notice, learn or experience something new. The walk has become something of a ritual, a way of marking the change in the seasons. Since I started to follow this route, I have had the feeling that there is more to discover and that this repeated circular walk might lead me somewhere. So, I am walking it 100 more times, each time with a different person from the local community, or a visiting artist or researcher with some interest in peatlands. As I share these encounters on this blog, I hope that a co-authored text will emerge, bringing a series of walked dialogues to a wider readership, and perhaps finding a way for the Moss to tell its stories. If you would like to be part of this project and join me for a walk round Lenzie Moss, please get in touch.

post

Listening through layers of land

With Shore Land, JeeYeung Lee has created a sound walk that contemplates Chicago's lakefront as a liminal space between land and water, simultaneously a public good, treaty violation, and strategy to suppress insurgence.

JeeYeun Lee
post

Encountering the many forms of water

With Only glaciers know, Yanran Bi discusses the complicated interconnections between human beings and the landscape of Iceland through a sonic documentary and poetic fiction.

Yanran Bi
Sound walk
What does the city sound like in extreme heat? This is an 8 minute and 49 second composite recording documenting the experience of walking in 100 (often 110 degree plus) temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona.

What does the city sound like in extreme heat? Water misters spray onto patios and sidewalk restaurants. Cars and trains continue to fill and pervade the streets. People walk to work where they spend their days in air-conditioned buildings, and others labor beneath makeshift canopies and under the cover of hard hats. These are but a few aspects of the urban ambiance of a desert city. This project was built up from recordings made over the course of the 100 days of over 100-degree Fahrenheit temperatures in the summer of 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. With each passing year, new record temperatures are recorded in the city. But what of the sounds? Already walking every few days in the city as part of a research project to understand the urban atmosphere under these conditions, I began making field recordings to further combine with my ethnographic writing and photographs. The result is a composite, and indeed, another kind of “image” of the city. This soundwalk accompanies “Issue One: Devices” of my research-based zine project, co-authored with human geographer Anne-Lise Boyer, entitled Heat Diary: Visualizing the City in Extreme Heat.

Heat Walk

CC-BY-NC: Brian F. O'Neill

Credits

Brian F. O'Neill

Colleague Annelise Boyer (https://www.anneliseboyer.com) contributed writing to the non-aural aspect of the project

APA style reference

O'Neill, B. (2024). Heat Walk. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/heat-walk/

apostlahästar

Swedish word for feet. Translated it means “horses of the apostles” referring to the apostles traveling on foot.

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