Hi Andrew
One of all time favourite audio guide is the Williamsburg women's Hasidic tour by www.soundwalk.com<http://www.soundwalk.com>. This is immersive
Narrative , as if the person is just behind you.
Kate
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On 10/02/2014, at 9:01 PM, "Andrew Stuck" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Dear All
Many thanks, for the various suggestions - I have collated them and reproduce them below. Apologies if I have overlooked a suggestion, just send me a reminder, and if you have any further suggestions, then do send them in to me.
Thx to Mia for reminding me about the lack of attachments in a previous e mail...
Best, Andrew
Audio walk / site specific
Bill Aitchison www.billaitchison.co.uk<http://www.billaitchison.co.uk> suggests: I made an audio walk around the Old Naval College back in 2008. It is a rough excerpted recording saved from an older format but it is a nice little piece all the same. http://www.billaitchison.co.uk/billaitchison/Auto_theatre.html
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Graeme Miller: Linked M11 http://www.linkedm11.net/ suggested by Rachel Gomme.
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Tansy Spinks www.tansyspinks.com<http://www.tansyspinks.com> Artist/sound artist/musician/lecturer: “it's always been a live, undocumented event - the most recent was for the Waterloo Sights and Sounds exhibition at Morley College Gallery - I took complete strangers who had signed up - around the Waterloo area for an hour.”
A Sound Walk for Waterloo, Sites and Sounds You will be encouraged to re-acquaint yourself with the undervalued sense of hearing and concentrated listening on this one hour, guided sound walk around the locality to hear a ‘ready-made’ composition. Please wear comfortable, quiet-soled shoes and leave your cameras, recorders and phones at home..
Sound Walk Guide
(To be read out by the guide immediately prior to undertaking the walk.)
You are about to undertake a guided SOUND WALK to hear a ‘readymade’ sound composition.
When I stop, please stop with me and listen.
Walk in single file and keep a bit of distance from each other (so that you don’t just hear footsteps).
Be careful when crossing the road.
Please put your phone onto silent or switch it off.
Please do not talk to anyone throughout the walk.
Tansy also recommends:
The guru of sound walking for me of course is Hildegard Westerkamp - there's quite a lot online about her approaches and methods. Otherwise artists such as Christina Kubisch have taken sound walks into the electrical realm - (using headphones to listen to the frequencies emitted by electric strip lights, cashpoint machines etc ..a bit niche) and then there's Janet Cardiff- whose works have more of a narrative in that you don headphones to listen to her as the narrator of your walk - she had a walk which started out from Whitechapel Art gallery and took you round the environs which may still be available online to download as MP3..
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David Watson’s Wild Ride / Swimming Home walk and swim across Sydney was discussed as a radio programme. ABC radio program about 'Wild Ryde|swimming home', my walk/swim across Sydney (2005-11): http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/offtrack/the-pace-of-place3a-david-watsone28099s-wild-ryde/4502380
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Marlene Creates http://www.marlenecreates.ca suggests her own work: The Boreal Poetry Garden, which takes several forms, including live-art poetry walks open to the public. There is a lot of information on my website in various places and forms. Here's a list:
–4 documentary videos of the events in the summer of 2013, which were on the the theme of the audible and included acoustic musicians who improvised in relation to my poems and the site. Access to them is on this page of my website:
http://www.marlenecreates.ca/liveart.html
–a review by Robert Finley in Canadian Art online:
"Marlene Creates: Of Words and Woods" by Robert Finley, Canadian Art, September 15, 2011:
http://www.canadianart.ca/reviews/2011/09/15/marlene_creates/
–2 blogs by people who have attended an event here:
"Marlene Creates Makes Art in Tune with the Times" blog by Gloria Hickey, July 22, 2013:
http://gloriahickeycraftwriter.blogspot.ca/2013/07/marlene-creates-makes-art-in-tune-with_22.html
"Poetry and Geology: Being Present to the Ancient Earth––Marlene Creates' Boreal Poetry Garden" blog by Ruth Martin,
August 21, 2012: http://coffeewithhallelujah.blogspot.ca/2012/08/poetry-and-geology-being-present-to.html
–and a locative internet project:
A Virtual Walk of The Boreal Poetry Garden:
http://marlenecreates.ca/virtualwalk/
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Misha Myers www.homingplace.org<http://www.homingplace.org> , www.wayfromhome.org<http://www.wayfromhome.org> suggests her own work: You might check out my piece made with 'international residents' of Plymouth: Take me to a place. Available at http://www.soundcloud.com/homingplace
Misha also recommends And While London Burns http://andwhilelondonburns.com/ by Platform, and Mike Pearson's Carrlands http://www.carrlands.org.uk/
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David Helbich davidhelbich.blogspot.com<http://davidhelbich.blogspot.com> belgian-solutions.be<http://belgian-solutions.be> I created an audio guide, that I am since 'transposing' for different cities (Kortrijk, Maastricht. Bergen, Riga), but it works also fine to walk and do it on other
places. I had a group doing the Kortrijk version in Amsterdam and they seemed to have had fun with it.
I advice to download either the Kortrijk or Maastricht tracks and one of the pdf's and use open headphones. The tracks are very different and some are more site-spcific than others. So, maybe they can choose 2-3 tracks and do them.
KORTRIJK TRACKS
MAASTRICHT TRACKS
A different kind of audio guide, namely without devices other than your hands and ears, you’ll find in this publication:http://davidhelbich.blogspot.be/2014/01/keine-musik-earpieces-in-cataloge-of.html<http://davidhelbich.blogspot.be/2014/01/keine-musik-earpieces-in-cataloge-of.html>
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John Benfield, User Experience Manager, Royal Shakespeare Company www.rsc.org.uk<http://www.rsc.org.uk> suggests Adelaide Road, an interactive poetry/prose journey along the Adelaide Road in North London created by the RSC working with Aoife Mannix and inspired by As You Like It.
As well as an online map there is an iPhone version that allows you do explore the journey on the go...
http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/projects/adelaide-road/
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Keith Watson suggests: Motoroti’s MultiWalks app: http://www.multiwalks.com/
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Alex Butterworth of Amblr LLP http://www.amblr.net/ recommends http://www.hackneyhear.com/
and Magic in Modern London http://www.wellcomecollection.org/explore/play/magic-in-modern-london.aspx that his company made for the Wellcome Trust: it's an Edwardian geo-located treasure hunt based on the amulet collection of Edward Lovett.
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Phil Wood suggests:
http://theculturevulture.co.uk/blog/hometourist/walk-to-the-best-end-of-town-a-time-travelling-sound-walk-around-manningham-bradford/
It is a particularly strong story because it contributed to building a relationship between Muslims and Jews on the city, with the local mosques fundraising to repair the synagogue.
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Murat Adash suggests: here is one that I created with two collaborators in 2009. The soundwalk took place in Brighton and you can stream the full audio on the following link (my website) by clicking on 'click to stream full audio':
http://muratadash.com/The-Stalker
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Kaspar Wimberley http://treacletheatre.co.uk/portfolio/
http://stuttg-arttours.de/sitehearing-in-stuttgart/ - simple exercise to sensitise the ear - easy to offer
http://stuttg-arttours.de/the-eye-walk/ - all round sensory experience especially suited to dancers - but proper training makes a big difference - more difficult to do properly than it sounds - bloody good though
For their research:
http://stuttg-arttours.de/tune-into-stuttgart/
http://stuttg-arttours.de/a-walk-with-amy/
http://stuttg-arttours.de/hearing-helmets/
http://stuttg-arttours.de/instant-city-parcour/
More traditional audio guides:
http://stuttg-arttours.de/a-tour-of-tourists/
http://stuttg-arttours.de/stammheim-schleife/
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Sound recordist: Geoff Sample www.wildsong.co.uk<http://www.wildsong.co.uk> Here's a link to my Hanna page. http://www.geoffsample.com/projects/canna.html
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Sound artist and researcher: Davide Tidoni: http://www.davidetidoni.name/
Sound artist and walking artists Product LKJ: http://productlkj.tumblr.com/
Nye Parry: http://www.nyeparry.com/ try http://www.nyeparry.com/boomtown/ - he recommends Aporee http://aporee.org/aporee.html and the UK Sound map http://sounds.bl.uk/sound-maps/uk-soundmap
Viv Corringham: Vocalist and sound artist: http://vivcorringham.org/
Site specific performance artist: Charlotte Spencer Projects Walking Stories (performed in Greenwich Park in 2013) http://charlottespencerprojects.org/walking-stories/
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Sounds - research and recordings
Creative Research into Sound Art Practice http://www.crisap.org/
Annabelle Campbell, Head of Exhibitions and Collections at the Craft Council recommends http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/ but also is involved with http://soundmatters.org.uk/
In the Field Symposium http://jcahen.wix.com/in-the-field#!
Sounds of Europe: http://www.soundsofeurope.eu/
Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/
British Library: http://sounds.bl.uk/
John Levack Drever is a lecturer in Composition in the Music faculty at Goldsmiths. leads on Sound research there, and has a penchant for the sound of industrial machines and man made objects: https://soundcloud.com/john-levack-drever
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Book:
Tom Sykes suggests: I recently read this book, its rather brilliant and covers a huge amount of ground, not just walking, but the immersive soundscapes of every environment:
http://www.colinsackett.co.uk/onlistening.php?x=69&y=5
and there is also another book on field recording in the same series,
Walter Siegfried suggests: it is a programmatic text about the use of audio as a kind of glue to reality: http://ariarium.de/stracks.htm
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This list was compiled by Andrew Stuck http://www.talkingwalking.net/ by asking participants on various networks for suggestions.
Andrew Stuck
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