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The SoundCloud profile "Walking It" features a curated collection of ambient and field recordings designed to enhance the experience of walking in urban and natural environments. The audio tracks emphasize the relationship between soundscapes and spatial awareness, capturing diverse acoustic atmospheres that range from quiet city streets to natural wilderness. This collection offers listeners an immersive auditory exploration of place, encouraging an attentive engagement with the sonic textures that define different walking routes. In addition to standalone soundscapes, "Walking It" includes experimental compositions that blend environmental sounds with minimal electronic elements, reflecting contemporary approaches in walking art practice. The recordings invite reflection on the interplay between movement, environment, and sound perception, aligning with cultural geography themes that consider how auditory experiences shape our understanding of place and mobility. Through this focus on walking as a method of experiencing and interpreting landscape, the profile contributes to the discourse on walking as an artistic and spatial practice.
Walking through the submerged forest
This piece is composed from my field recordings walking on the beach at low tide and readings of letters from Bexhill Museum archives, layered together with sound effects to bring to life a part of our eroding coastline and an archive which lies quietly unearthed.
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walking it
The SoundCloud profile "Walking It" features a curated collection of ambient and field recordings designed to enhance the experience of walking in urban and natural environments. The audio tracks emphasize the relationship between soundscapes and spatial awareness, capturing diverse acoustic atmospheres that range from quiet city streets to natural wilderness. This collection offers listeners an immersive auditory exploration of place, encouraging an attentive engagement with the sonic textures that define different walking routes. In addition to standalone soundscapes, "Walking It" includes experimental compositions that blend environmental sounds with minimal electronic elements, reflecting contemporary approaches in walking art practice. The recordings invite reflection on the interplay between movement, environment, and sound perception, aligning with cultural geography themes that consider how auditory experiences shape our understanding of place and mobility. Through this focus on walking as a method of experiencing and interpreting landscape, the profile contributes to the discourse on walking as an artistic and spatial practice.
Walking through the submerged forest
This piece is composed from my field recordings walking on the beach at low tide and readings of letters from Bexhill Museum archives, layered together with sound effects to bring to life a part of our eroding coastline and an archive which lies quietly unearthed.
The field recordings and photographs I made for this project revolved around what, at the time, seemed like an endless air travel journey back home to Phoenix, Arizona. It was endless, and indeed tedious, because, well, I wasn’t in the air, but instead, on the ground. Flying from Champaign, Illinois to Dallas Fort-Worth, we were “grounded” due to extreme weather. One could get to Phoenix, but it would not be until the next day – election day, and then time was spent on the eve of the election in the air and then in the Los Angeles International Airport – LAX. It seemed strangely fitting that on this pivotal day in American life, I would be trapped in omnitopia for the night, in the terminal space of generic environments and atomized interactions that were designed for continual movement, wherein things had come to a grinding halt. As me and my sleep deprived brain tried to process the situation, all I was left with was the possibility to record my surrounds, to observe in sight and sound what I could as I walked, and sat, and waited, and flew.
Election Eve - LAX
CC-BY-NC: Brian F. O'Neill
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