Walking Festival of Sound: Artist Walks / Barry Truax

Walking Festival of Soundis a transdisciplinary, nomadic event exploring the role of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. It combines a number of free events including walking performances, walking seminars, listening sessions, and artist talks which take place in diverse offline and online spaces. Walking Festival of Sound facilitates a meeting point for an international network of practitioners and researchers interested in sound and walking in an expanded context. Through diverse events we explore how walking and listening practices can augment and challenge the way we perceive, mediate, navigate through, and care for our shared environments. In 2019 the festival takes place in two cities, Stockholm and Newcastle. In 2021, the festival moved to Krakow and Edinburgh. In 2022, the event takes place in Seoul and Vancouver.Walking Festival of Sound was founded by Jacek Smolicki and Tim Shaw.

Walking Festival of Sound

WFOS welcomes long standing soundscape composer Barry Truax for an artist talk on Soundscape Composition as a form of Soundwalking.

Soundwalking, as a key methodological component of soundscape practice, also forms one of the main influences for soundscape composition, whether of the more naturalistic, phonographic approach, or the abstracted variety where more overt sound processing is involved. Soundwalking experience can inform the structure of a soundscape composition by appearing to move the listener through a physical acoustic space, or in other cases, through a foreshortened time frame. From the relatively crude simulations of the World Soundscape Project in the 1970s, to today’s use of sophisticated digital processing, this presentation will provide examples of soundwalking inspired soundscape works, including the Truax's recent piece Rainforest Raven.Barry Truax is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He worked with the World Soundscape Project, editing its Handbook for Acoustic Ecology, and has published a book Acoustic Communication, that deals with sound and technology, now in its 2nd edition. In 1991 his work, Riverrun, was awarded the Magisterium at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France. Truax’s multi-channel soundscape compositions are frequently featured in concerts and festivals around the world. In 2015-16 he was the Edgard Varèse Guest Professor at the Technical University in Berlin. http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/Walking Festival of Sound is a transdisciplinary event exploring the role of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. It combines a number of free and public events including walking performances and walking seminars. Walking Festival of Sound facilitates a meeting point for an international network of practitioners and researchers interested in sound and walking. Through diverse events we explore how walking and listening practices can augment and challenge the way we perceive, navigate through, and care for our shared environments.The Walking Festival of Sound 2021 is kindly funded by the Culture of Solidarity Fund.The program of events is organised and curated by Jacek Smolicki and Tim Shaw.http://wfos.net/A YouTube link will be sent to participants shortly before the event.

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