Wireless Drift / Tim Shaw

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

This workshop and soundwalk focuses on making audible the wireless communication signals that surround us and permeate our environments.

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Wireless Drift: Workshop and SoundwalkThis workshop and soundwalk focuses on listening to the wireless communication signals that surround us. Participants will work with a range of listening tools, including RF density sensors, SDR receivers, electromagnetic induction devices and ESP-based systems. Many of these instruments have been developed by Tim.The workshop begins with a demonstration of these technologies and how they are used to sense and translate different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum into sound. Participants will then explore how Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks, along with other signals, can be made audible in real time.Following the introduction, participants will take part in a guided soundwalk using these devices. Moving through the city, the group will listen to how the sonic character of the electromagnetic environment changes from place to place, revealing patterns of connectivity, infrastructure, and signal density.The workshop was developed through Tim Shaw’s fellowship at the Forum Basiliense, which investigates the borderscapes between Switzerland, France and Germany. By listening across different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, the walk offers a way to experience the city through the invisible flows of data that constantly pass through it. Tim Shaw is an artist and researcher working with sound, light, and communication media to create performances, installations, and site-responsive interventions. His practice engages environmental sound art, digital media, media archaeology, walking practices, and experimental instrument building. His projects explore hidden forms of communication in the environment, including insect sound worlds, augmented soundwalks, high-voltage instruments, radio transmissions through trees, and musical material extracted from rocks. Shaw’s work is presented internationally at festivals and in diverse locations—from forests, caves, and mountains to museums and galleries. He has collaborated with artists including Chris Watson and Phill Niblock. In 2026 he will be a Forum Basiliense Fellow at University of Basel and will lead the Meteorological Media Spark project at Zurich University of the Arts. <a href="https://tim-shaw.info/" title="https://tim-shaw.info/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://tim-shaw.info/</a>

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