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Upcoming events
11 September 2025
OpenCity New York
Autumn 2025
Derbyshire cave walk
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Further
Image credit: Louis Niedojadlo
The soundwalk medium has potential as a
critical tool for exploring our human environment, but
also in gaining a deeper appreciation of our shared
environment, in relation to acoustic ecology, adoption of
a more responsible position.
The medium can also be applied to the processes of
perception, of the art experience itself, and of the
artist/audience relationship. I have used it to probe such
subjects the English countryside, failed utopias,
post-industrial ruination, and the role of the tour guide.
At root, a soundwalk provides a stark reminder of time
passing and the processes of change.
The soundwalk experience shares
significant features with cinema, such as in the
co-constructive relationship between sound and image and
the taking of imaginative journeys into other worlds.
Beyond the auditorium screen, a soundwalk provides a far
less bounded, even panoramic perspective, placing the
participant in a specific setting within which they may be
taken through diverse (and possibly contradictory) states.
There is also potential for the soundwalk to be applied as
a means of engendering understanding between
communities through the creation of dialogic space. I have
already witnessed its capacity to provide agency for
people, in particular those who are currently
marginalised, through which they might explore their own
relationship with place and self-/shared identity?
If you are interested in developing these or related ideas get in contact
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