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The soundtrack of here

Babak Fakhamzadeh•

Babak Fakhamzadeh

Co-founder of walk · listen · create (Netherlands / Iran / Brazil) 
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We’ll pick up on threads and themes that have been developing as we have collectively been considering aspects of place . Please register your interest by replying to this email by Sunday 25th April and we’ll send you additional details and link to the zoom call.

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The streets come alive with the sound of music

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Sound walk
A micro-app which constructs the soundtrack of the places you physically move through.

The micro-app The Soundtrack of Here uses the radio aporee API in a playful manner to generate the soundtrack of the places you pass through.

In this project’s “Armchair mode”, you can continuously add locations, with the micro-app adding nearby sounds to construct a playlist, a soundtrack, of the places you have virtually moved through.

In “Outdoors mode”, you’re expected to move around. As you move, nearby sounds are added to your playlist, constructing the soundtrack of the places you are moving through.

You can’t jump through the playlist, you can only jump to the next sound. You can’t go back, but you can restart the current sound.

If you move fast enough, your playlist will never run-out. Or, rather, after, at the moment, listening to the some 50.000 sounds on radio aporee.

Obviously, the “Outdoors mode” works best in denser areas, where contributors to radio aporee have left more sounds.
In central London, a few hundred sounds are available, Berlin has a few thousand.

APA style reference

Fakhamzadeh, B. (2022). The soundtrack of here. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/the-soundtrack-of-here/

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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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