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LISTEN: Walking Memories Sound Walk app launch tour and Q and A

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LISTEN: Walking Memories Sound Walk app launch tour and Q and A

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    Black Swan Arts, Round Tower Gallery

    2 Bridge Street

    Frome

    BA11 1BB

    United Kingdom

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    Come and celebrate the launch of this amazing creative heritage sound walk. Free to download and easy to use for anyone with a smart phone. Satsymph who have created the app will introduce us to this brand new soundscape on August 3 with guided walks and Q and A's throughout the day.

    Guided walk 11.15am -12.15pm Q & A 12.15am - 1.15pm

    Guided walk 2 - 3pm Q & A 3 - 4pm

    Please arrive 15 minutes before the guided walks

    Imagine walking around Frome and hearing the past bought to life in words, sound and music. The Walking Memories Sound Walk will be a free smartphone app which will take you on a wonderful walking, aural journey. At various sites in Frome, you will hear stories told by real people sharing real memories in the places where they happened: You might hear the excitement of the market at the Black Swan Yard with voices sharing memories of the animals and goods that were for sale. Or from the old industries at Singers and Saxonvale, the girls at Beswick Fuses listening to records played through the factory loud speakers, chatting about nights out and dances as they work. You may here something different if you stand still, turn around or sway from side to side, all for you to discover!

    The sound walk will be composed of recordings of local residents collected by Home In Frome during the 2012 Working Memories project combined with environmental and industry sounds and new material. Created by Satsymph, a Bristol-based collective with over 13 years experience in creating geo-located sound walks. Through the use of their cutting edge media platform, fragments of Frome’s oral history will be placed at specific sites on a digital map. These ‘soundpools’ will be activated on your phone as you arrive at the relevant places. You don’t even need a signal – your phone and the app do it all. The app will remain available to download onto your phone for free, indefinitely. Creating a lasting legacy, as future generations listen into the real voices of Frome past.

    Take part in a free workshop to make your own sound walk with satsymph: listensoundart.co.uk/workshop

    For more LISTEN events, please visit the website: listensoundart.org.uk


    This walk has been commissioned by Black Swan Arts, Frome with funding from National Lottery Heritage Fund, Frome Society for Local Study and Frome Town Council.

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    • United Kingdom Events
    • Somerset Events
    • Things to do in Frome
    • Frome Tours
    • Frome Community Tours
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