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> > > View this email in your browser > > Pin your ears back and take a few steps on #Sound Walk Sunday - celebrating 'walking pieces' from around the world > Going out for a stroll on a Sunday has just become a lot more intriguing, as more than 50 artists, composers and producers from around the world have created walks in which listening is the primary sense. We are celebratingSound Walk Sunday on Sunday 27 August creating opportunities for the public to take a Sunday stroll with a difference. > > You can simply sit back and listen to many of the “walking pieces” but we want to entice you outdoors. You can choose to take headphones to listen to composed walks or simply pin back your ears to listen to your surroundings, and the noises you make yourself while walking. > > You can be a time traveller to discover 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history, bang your own drum and follow its echo, follow the antics of two feuding brothers through 19th Century Bristol, listen to the sounds of the coastal region of Queensland, or a river in Serbia or north west Canada. > > There are group walks taking place too, so you can try out a walking piece and meet the artist, composer or producer in person. In London there’s an audio tour of Britpop Camden and a walk in which you are invited to tap dance your way around the Paddington Basin, with other live events taking place in Nevada, USA and and Whitehorse in north west Canada. > > As many as 40 artists and composers will be offering group walking pieces and listening experiences at the Made of Walking Festival at La Romieu in southern France from the 27th August to the 1st September. > > However, there are dozens of other walking pieces you can try out on your own or with friends, some specific to a location and more than half a dozen that can be tried anywhere. Artists and producers have been submitting their own work and recommending “walking pieces” created by others, and there’s a handy directory listing more than 60 walks and an on-line map map offering a wide variety of walks for people to try out on Sound Walk Sunday. > > All are listed in our directory here > > > > > > We asked Geoff Sample, acclaimed bird song recordist, and author of the Collins Bird Songs and Calls, to write an appreciation of Sound Walk Sunday and his approach to listening - download and read it from here > > Join a Group walk from Caffe 43 on Pratt Street, NW1 at 11.00am on Sunday 27 August and meet Miranda Diboll who created this nostalgic audio geo-located walking piece and Claire Van Den Heever from VoiceMap, the publishing tool and distribution platform behind this walk. > The walk finishes in a pub where we’ll chat about the walk and geo-locative audio. Book your place > > > Come and join in this live art piece - a group walk as part of artist Nathania Hartley's Tapping Into The City project - looking at our movements through private-public space in the city. Meeting point - 2pm Sunday 27 August at benches overlooking the amphitheatre at Sheldon Square, London, W2 6PY. Nearest tube: Paddington. > Peering into September we continue the Sound theme with our next First Monday: Sound Salon - this time in Brighton on a TUESDAY! 5th September - A chance to try our some field recording, criticque an audio trail, and solve a challenge set for Brighton & Hove City Council. Free event. Read more or Book Now > > Highlights for September include Exploring the Urban Forest: Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury - with London Street Trees author Paul Wood; and Tom Boltonwill be showing us around Camden Town - dreams of another London - to mark publication of his new book. > > > > Copyright © 2017 Rethinking Cities Ltd. - Museum of Walking, All rights reserved. > You are receiving this email because you have either corresponded with us, or participated in one of our talks, talkshops, walks or walkshops. > > Our mailing address is: > Rethinking Cities Ltd. - Museum of Walking > Greenwich > London, Greater London SE10 0 > United Kingdom > > Add us to your address book > > > Want to change how you receive these emails? > You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. > > > ANDREW STUCK Walking Creative (TM) Founding Director of the Museum of Walking 0772 5555460 [log in to unmask] http://www.museumofwalking.org.uk @museumofwalking Producer - Talking Walking http://www.talkingwalking.net The Museum of Walking is a trading name of Rethinking Cities Ltd., registered in the UK number 5801458. http://www.rethinkingcities.net @RethinkCities FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/wan