This is an archived event from Culture Days 2020.
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Intertidal room - a soundwalk (self-guided version)
Self-guided
Date and time
This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location
Area near Stanley Park/Third Beach
Vancouver, BC
Directions: Details about the starting location and route will be emailed to registered participants.
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
About
Created/led by Jacek Smolicki
After registration, participants will be emailed instructions, a route map and audio file. You must provide your own mobile phone or a portable audio player, and good quality headphones in order to listen to the accompanying audio story. We are unfortunately unable to provide these items due to health and safety concerns.
During the pandemic, our sense of hearing seems to have gotten sharper. Urban noises and the disruptive din of everyday life rhythms have given room to more subtle and less easily perceptible soundscapes. In this unstable period an unexpected possibility emerged to rethink how we have been connecting with, affecting, and often exploiting our lived environments on multiple levels. Can attentive listening challenge our ways of inhabiting the world? Can a short moment of aural attention to transient organisms whose lives remain usually imperceptible to us, reconfigure our daily conducts on a personal, collective, or even planetary scale?
Intertidal room is an audio piece intended to be listened to while walking at low tide, solitarily or collectively. It interweaves elements of creative storytelling, historical research creative field recording, and soundscape composition.
Part of Soundwalk September.
Links
- Intertidal room - self-guided registration newmusic.org
Organizer
Vancouver New Music and Vancouver Soundwalk Collective
https://newmusic.org/intertidal-room-a-soundwalk-sept-27-2020/