Walking Pieces
This is the Museum of Walking, a comprehensive catalogue of walking art.
Memento – Wanstead
Memento – Wanstead Park, uses oral history recordings made by Olivia Bellas, to piece together an identity for a public space fused with personal recollection and a nod to the future. Local voices gently guide you around the park and into their own memories. The concept is different to previous memento sound walks with no
The Wiltshire Ridgeway Walk
The Wiltshire Ridgeway Walk app created by Richard White was an element of a larger project about the Ridgeway National Trail in Wiltshire inspired by the photographs of Fay Godwin. The app content is linked to a section of the Ridgeway near the World Heritage Site of Avebury and can be used with or without GPS.
Oneironaut
We spend 11% of our existence dreaming, a full month of each year, that’s more time than we spend eating. While the body lies still the mind wanders, free of limitations of time and space. This story poses the possibility that a conscious dreaming mind could share other people’s real waking experiences. The Oneironaut, a
NetPark
NetPark is a series of locative projects curated by Simon Poulter and developed by Metal with assistance from the Digital R&D Fund. Artist projects and children’s stories can be downloaded for iOS, Android and web/mp3. Many of these use GPS and free wi-fi is provided in the park for visitors and you can contact Metal
Walk & Play YSP!
Resident artists Idit Nathan and Helen Stratford invite you to join them to explore Yorkshire Sculpture Park through walking and playing. This interactive journey will help you experience and engage with the Park in fresh, imaginative and even mischievous ways. The ‘walkshops’ will inform the creation of a new mobile artwork that we’ll launch in
A Song for Fifty Hearts
Duncan Speakman’s ‘A Song for Fifty Hearts‘ was created for the year long public art project Palace Intrusions in Wells in Somerset. Duncan made a number of visits to Wells to find, record and compose his responses to a circular walk around the Palace walls. The final composition, ‘Song for Fifty Hearts’ was the result
White Horse walks
Discover the Wessex White Horses with sonic artists and historians: as you walk, a series of rich soundscapes and expert comments are triggered by GPS. Each free smartphone app will enrich a family walk, a solitary ramble or sociable picnic. Your device will register the sounds you have visited. When you have triggered them all
Lachrymae
Artmusic‘s Lachrymae, an immersive installation of sculpture and music was installed in Chapel Coppice on the South Dorset Ridgeway as part of the Inside Out Dorset Festival in 2014. Artmusic has collaborated with Satsymph who make gps-triggered immersive soundworlds to create a virtual version of Lachrymae that can be experienced via your smart phone. It’s
Listening Here: Albany, NY
A web-app for mindful listening delivering written instructions that encourage creative engagement with the sounds around you, inspired by input from people who live in, work in, or visit Albany, NY. Use this link https://demo.listeninghere.org/, to gain access to the demo version of the app which works outside of Albany, NY. This project is on-going so
Riverfront Park Soundwalk
Riverfront Park Soundwalk is a site-specific, 20-minute artist audio walking tour of Troy, New York‘s waterways. It is a past, present, and future overview based on sound artist Andrea Williams’ historical and environmental research and interviews from 2014-2015 with Troy residents and water experts. Musical elements, soundscapes and the actual environment intermingle in this soundwalk
Walking the Treme
Two hundred years before the HBO television series made Tremé an emblem of the cultural richness of New Orleans, the residents of this faubourg drummed, danced, and second lined their way into history. Tremé, touted as the oldest African American neighborhood in the United States as well as the birthplace of jazz, boasts a history
