Listening to Abu Dhabi

Walking piece details

Duration 30 minutes

Listening to Abu Dhabi maps soundscape compositions along the Abu Dhabi Corniche. It transports listeners through the past to the future, imagining changing soundscapes to explore how our relationship to the city will change as sea levels and temperatures rise in the future.
This piece was developed for Keira Simmons’ Capstone Thesis Project at New York University Abu Dhabi. For more information and to read a copy of the accompanying research paper please contact Keira at [email protected].

Keira Simmons

Keira Simmons

SWS23 shortlisted

Keira J. Simmons (she/they) is an emerging South Australian sound artist and sound designer based on unceded Kaurna Land. She creates projects that explore bodily engagement with place and sound, through speculative soundwalking and through performing medi...

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