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Musicity x Sculpture in the City

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architecture

1 sub-collections · 75 items
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City of London

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sculpture

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urban landscape

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Monuments, part of ThickSkin’s Walk This Play® series commissioned by Step Up MCR, highlights the history and communities of Ancoats, Clayton, Beswick, and Openshaw through a guided walk focused on local architecture and heritage. The walk is accessed via the free Walk This Play® app by searching for "Monuments" and downloading it before setting off.

ThickSkinTheatre Jonnie Riordan
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Manor Farm Heritage Site Audio Tour

Free downloadable audio tour of the Manor Farm Heritage Site, including an exploration of the grounds with historic structures. Includes period voice dramatisations and evocative sound effects

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The Secret of Seattle’s Disappearing Hill

On this virtual walk, we will explore Seattle’s most famous land alteration project: the complete removal of a hill in the downtown area. Through a series of illustrations and maps and historic photos, we’ll virtually cover about 1.5 miles circumnavigating the old hill in the area known as the Denny Regrade, where Amazon’s campus is

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Listening All Along the Watchtower

A Culture Days Soundwalk Vancouver’s Cambie Street bisects through the centre of our city, weaving together various facets of daily urban life, while also mirroring similar development pressures in our Regional District and elsewhere. The City of Vancouver acknowledges the importance of the Cambie Corridor as a significant aspect of a sustainable, livable city comprised of

Vancouver New Music

architecture

1 sub-collections · 75 items
Sub-collection

City of London

Sub-collection · 3 items
Sub-collection

sculpture

Sub-collection · 44 items
Sub-collection

urban landscape

Sub-collection · 28 items

Related

Sound walk

Monuments

Monuments, part of ThickSkin’s Walk This Play® series commissioned by Step Up MCR, highlights the history and communities of Ancoats, Clayton, Beswick, and Openshaw through a guided walk focused on local architecture and heritage. The walk is accessed via the free Walk This Play® app by searching for "Monuments" and downloading it before setting off.

ThickSkinTheatre Jonnie Riordan
Walking piece

Manor Farm Heritage Site Audio Tour

Free downloadable audio tour of the Manor Farm Heritage Site, including an exploration of the grounds with historic structures. Includes period voice dramatisations and evocative sound effects

Pamela Glintenkamp
walkingevent

The Secret of Seattle’s Disappearing Hill

On this virtual walk, we will explore Seattle’s most famous land alteration project: the complete removal of a hill in the downtown area. Through a series of illustrations and maps and historic photos, we’ll virtually cover about 1.5 miles circumnavigating the old hill in the area known as the Denny Regrade, where Amazon’s campus is

David B Williams
walkingevent

Listening All Along the Watchtower

A Culture Days Soundwalk Vancouver’s Cambie Street bisects through the centre of our city, weaving together various facets of daily urban life, while also mirroring similar development pressures in our Regional District and elsewhere. The City of Vancouver acknowledges the importance of the Cambie Corridor as a significant aspect of a sustainable, livable city comprised of

Vancouver New Music
Sound walk
Musicity x Sculpture in the City has commissioned 11 tracks from various artists that explore the sonic landscape of key locations across the City of London, including Aldgate, Shoreditch, and Leadenhall Market. This project combines architecture, music, acoustic engineering, and virtual reality to create alternative auditory experiences of the urban environment.

Musicity x Sculpture in the City has commissioned 11 tracks from a diverse selection of artists which highlight the sonic landscape across the City of London, from Aldgate to Shoreditch and from Leadenhall Market to St. Botolph’s-without-Bishopsgate.

Musicity works collaboratively across the disciplines of architecture, music, acoustic engineering and virtual reality (VR) to lay out alternative routes of experiencing contemporary cities. The interface it creates between architecture and music aims to reveal the intimate depth nestled in the acoustic qualities of our urban landscapes.

Artists and associated locations:

70 St Mary Axe – Mixmaster Morris
Aldgate Tower – Bambooman
99 Bishopgate – Angèle David-Guillou
Bury Court – Sarathy Korwar
Principal Place – Ski Oakenfull and Bluey
1 Undershaft – Midori Komachi
St Helen’s Square – Datassette
Lime Street – SuperCool-Guy feat. Fay Cannings
St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate Churchyard – Tawiah
Leadenhall Market – Masato Kakinoki | abirdwhale
Mitre Square – Simon Vincent

Musicity team: Nick Luscombe, Solen Fluzin, Paul Bavister.

Musicity x Culture Mile is commissioned by Sculpture in the City in association with Brookfield Properties.

Credits

Hosted by: Musicity Global

APA style reference

Fluzin, S. (2019). Musicity x Sculpture in the City. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/musicity-x-sculpture-in-the-city/

slew

A short walk or stroll, as in “I’ll take a slew around the harbour before going to bed.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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