This is a field-recording workshop for Sampling Sounds of Coventry’s Future, a participatory project organised with the University of Warwick for Coventry City of Culture, with the aim of facilitating exchange between city and university and engagement with the future.

The workshop will be facilitated by sound-studies scholar Dr Naomi Waltham-Smith and will cover:

• Tuning in to our surroundings
• The art of soundwalking
• Making recordings on mobile phones and basic field recorders
• Basic sound editing
• Telling stories with recordings

Participants will gain the skills to be able to go out and make their own recordings of the urban and periurban environment and to share them with others. No prior experience or expertise is required.

Sampling Sounds of Coventry's Future brings together academic researchers with artists, practitioners and publics in Coventry to address a question: what does the future of Coventry sound like? To answer it, we will be working together to create sound compositions and performances, using field recordings of the city. The project is co-organised by three academics—Noortje Marres and Naomi Waltham-Smith at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at Warwick and Nirmal Puwar in Sociology at Goldsmiths.