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Pymmes Brook Trail
A walk across North London following The Pymmes Brook listening to voices of people talking about the river. Available in Sonic maps using following PUID codes Part 1: Cockfosters to Arnos Park. CODE 994 Part 2: Bowes Meadow to Cambridge Roundabout A10. CODE 1007
Silent Moves – Stories of Vietnamese Migration
Silent Moves presents an acoustic archive of Vietnamese migration histories linked to Berlin-Lichtenberg, featuring sounds, interviews, and archival materials from the GDR era to today. This sound walk allows listeners to engage with voices of migrants, experts, and activists either on-site or online via aporee.org/mfm.
Wolverhampton Literature Festival
Wolverhampton Literature Festival was a vibrant annual event celebrating literature, poetry, music, and the arts. In 2020, the festival partnered with OVERHEAR to commission ten local poets to write about ten beloved independent city venues in Wolverhampton. These poems were recorded and virtually “pinned” to their respective locations, allowing festival-goers to discover and collect them
Birmingham Literature Festival
In Autumn 2018, we worked in collaboration with Birmingham Literature Festival to add a little something extra to their programme. We commissioned 12 writers to create bespoke poems (and one short story!) inspired by venues around the city centre, where BLF were hosting events.
Statues Workshop
When protestors in Bristol brought down a monument to slave trader Edward Colston in their city, it sparked a national conversation about the value and purpose of public art in our lives. Given that Overhear is all about giving people the power to write their own narratives onto their spaces, we thought it was the
Lisan: Tongue
An interactive theatrical experience of walking with a twelve-year-old girl as your daughter along the Dubai creek, leading you through contrasting natural and urban landscapes – bringing to light the many lives of the creek and the stories of its human and more-than-human inhabitants.
Where I End & You Begin
A surprising work of immersive theater that time-synchronizes two participants as they travel across MASS MoCA’s expansive galleries and campus. Show-issued equipment tether you wirelessly to one another in this 85-minute, deeply-connective piece.
Ascent: A Boulder Soundwalk
Inspired by composer Divya Maus' relationship to the Rocky Mountains as first an immigrant from Germany, a local, and then a returning visitor, ASCENT is a classical music experience installed in Boulder Colorado's Scott Carpenter Park that radically increases the accessibility of traditional choral concerts.
Tidelines
Tidelines is a soundwalk mapped along East Beach, Berneray. Created in collaboration with community groups across Uist, the work combines poems, field recordings, music, and soundscapes into an immersive experience shaped by the island’s people and coastal landscape.
Los Pasos de Mama Killa (The Steps of Mother Killa)
The soundwalk “Los Pasos de Mama Killa” (The Steps of Mama Killa) explores the collective meaning of agency at night, presenting the nighttime as a communal and relational space grounded in mutual care. The sound design was developed using sound-augmented reality on the ECHOES platform. This work was created for the Sur Aural Sound Festival in 2024, held in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
