Soundwalking

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Jul 172013
 

10th Anniversary Series Picture

Listen to interviews with Soundwalk.com founder, Stephan Crasneanski, produced by Sound@ member, Josephine Holtzman.

“Soundwalking” was a term first coined by World Soundscape Project founder, R. Murray Schafer, in Vancouver in the 1970s.  While Soundwalks began as a means of soundscape studies, contemporary soundwalks have evolved into an art practice.  Soundwalk.com was at the forefront of this new experimentation with soundwalking as narrative tool, informed by the soundwalks of sound artist, Janet Cardiff.  The founder, Stephan Crasneanski, creates narrative audio walks described as a combination of Baudelairian stroll and cinematic experience.   He describes these hour-long, audio tours as “sound movies” which navigate “uncharted” routes through neighborhoods that combine fiction, oral history, music and movement to reveal the character and history of neighborhoods around the world.

Stephan speaks about his award-winning Sonic Memorial Soundwalk around the site of Ground Zero and narrated by Paul Auster.

“It’s Nothing New, But It’s All Tragic”

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Jul 152013
 

Trayvon Martin protest poster

Click above the image to listen to an interview with a protester, interspersed with sounds from the July 14, 2014 protest of the George Zimmerman verdict in Union Square, New York City.

Zimmerman Verdict protest, July 14, 2014

We went to the Zimmerman verdict protest yesterday in Union Square. This is an interview/audio piece made from recordings of the event. Sometimes there’s not much sense to make but, in any case, here are people speaking and being together, trying to decide what’s next. The interludes are repetitive.

The same phrases echo through the event, through many events, come to think of it through American history at a far broader scale. Why do such things return? “It’s nothing new, but it’s all tragic.”