Sound Walk Sunday – hosted by LISTEN

Sound Walk Sunday (September 1st) is an international internet-based platform bringing together sound walks and sound walkers from across the globe. Sound Walk Sunday 2019 will be hosted in Frome by LISTEN. Andrew Stuck from SWS and Geert Vermeire from Made of Walking will join us for the day to walk, talk and listen.

There will be two sound walks and a mini symposium. ‘Underneath The Arches’ will be led by saxophonist Nick Sorensen and will start at 10am from the Holburne Museum, Bath and continue along the Kennett and Avon canal to Avoncliff Aqueduct. Nick will perform improvisations underneath the arches of the bridges and aqueducts along the route, responding to the specific acoustics of each of the sites. Join him along the route for as long a stretch as suits you.

In the afternoon (2 – 3 pm) Belgian artist Geert Vermeire will lead Utopia a drift for dancers and silent walkers. This silent walk has been previously performed in Cities across the world including Brasilia, New York and Athens and is adapted to each place and shaped by the participating dancers and walkers. Book a place on the walk by visiting the LISTEN website, sound walks page. A Utopia related soundscape, ‘Hythlodaeus 2015’ will be available in the Listening Hub, Black Swan Arts, Round Tower Gallery from 10 am – 3 pm.

The final event of the day (Black Swan Arts Round Tower Gallery, 3.15 – 5.15 pm) and of the LISTEN season is a mini symposium entitled ‘Sound walking today. Listening in between lines of past and future’. Looking back over LISTEN , and looking forward with Sound Walk Sunday, Andrew Stuck (Museum of Walking), Geert Vermeire (Made of Walking) and LISTEN-curator Helen Ottaway will lead a round table discussion about contemporary topics related to sound walking today. This is a participation-only event and there will be no audience.

If you would like to take part in the symposium please contact listenblackswan@gmail.com

More info and bookings at www.listensoundart.org.uk