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Luis Vuitton Soundwalk

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Hosted by: Luis Vuitton and Soundwalk
Beijing, China
60 minutes
$17

Beijing

Collection · 4 items

Hong Kong

Collection · 13 items

narration

Collection · 10 items

surrealism

Collection · 6 items

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A dramatic walk through Putney (circa 1908)

This audio narrative and TiCL App guide users to locations in Putney inspired by Arnold Bennett’s novel *Buried Alive*. At each site, listeners hear adapted episodes from the book linked to the specific setting.

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Performing memory in familiar places

This audio paper explores the author's repeated visits to their grandparents' villages near Prespes, using walking as a method to reconstruct family memories tied to historical migrations and trauma following the Greek Civil War. It considers the landscape as both a stimulus and archive of memory, blending personal narrative with cultural history through embodied spatial experience.

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THE RESCUE OF THE BENVENUE

Steven M Halliday’s historical sound walk from Folkestone Harbour to Sandgate, Kent, retraces the 1891 shipwreck of the full-rigged Benvenue. The 25-minute experience combines 3D sound design, narration, and music to narrate the dramatic rescue events.

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Beijing

Collection · 4 items

Hong Kong

Collection · 13 items

narration

Collection · 10 items

surrealism

Collection · 6 items

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Elle disappeared, again. Her brother, Kay, has traced her to Derby. He discovers the hidden messages she’s left him around the city, like an Easter egg hunt or trail of breadcrumbs.

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Sound walk

A dramatic walk through Putney (circa 1908)

This audio narrative and TiCL App guide users to locations in Putney inspired by Arnold Bennett’s novel *Buried Alive*. At each site, listeners hear adapted episodes from the book linked to the specific setting.

Simon Edwards
Sound walk

Performing memory in familiar places

This audio paper explores the author's repeated visits to their grandparents' villages near Prespes, using walking as a method to reconstruct family memories tied to historical migrations and trauma following the Greek Civil War. It considers the landscape as both a stimulus and archive of memory, blending personal narrative with cultural history through embodied spatial experience.

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THE RESCUE OF THE BENVENUE

Steven M Halliday’s historical sound walk from Folkestone Harbour to Sandgate, Kent, retraces the 1891 shipwreck of the full-rigged Benvenue. The 25-minute experience combines 3D sound design, narration, and music to narrate the dramatic rescue events.

Steven M Halliday
Sound walk
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Louis Vuitton partnered with Soundwalk to produce a series of surreal audio tours that take listeners through the Chinese cities of Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.

Louis Vuitton partnered with Soundwalk to produce a series of surreal audio tours that take listeners through the Chinese cities of Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. The tours offer a mix of music, sound effects, and narration, while listeners stuck at home can enjoy the tours as well.

Three of China’s most well-known actors (Gong Li, Shu Qi, and Joan Chen) supply the narration, which blends instructions (walk down this road, open the door) with heartfelt and nostalgic story telling. Each city essentially serves as a stage for a different tale of love and longing that helps bring the tour’s destinations to life.

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(2008). Luis Vuitton Soundwalk. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/luis-vuitton-soundwalk/
Submitted by: Babak Fakhamzadeh

One thought on “Luis Vuitton Soundwalk”

  1. Good on you for putting this up. It’s such a standout work, along with most of the other sound walks these guys did back in the late 90s, early 2000s. These guys were true ground-breakers and their work reflects the brilliance of the radio audio auteur

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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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