SonicMvmtScapes
immersive AR audio experiences
2024-2025
︎ Locative media
︎ Sound mapping
︎ GPS-triggering audio experiences
︎ Worldwide ︎
A project in collaboration with sound artist Samara Rice.
www.sonicmvmtscapes.com
@sonicmvmtscapes
︎ current SonicMvmtScapes AR audio experiences:
︎︎︎ Carl Thornton Park 1.0, Santa Ana, California, USA - 15 to 29 June 2024
︎︎︎ Ocean Blvd 2.0, Bluff Park, Long Beach, California, USA - 7 to 22 September 2024
︎︎︎ Müggelsee 3.0, Berlin, Germany - 6 June to 31 August 2025
“Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.”- Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.” - Pauline Oliveros
“Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.” - David Abrams
SonicMvmtScapes is an immersive AR audio experience that invites participants into their sensing and feeling body’s as they engage with urban and natural landscapes in new ways and contexts. The audio experience utilizes sound mapping and movement as a means to alter the way one perceives place.
The project will be accessible in various cities and local parks across the globe via an app where the sound recordings will exist for users to access at anytime. Each audio experience is GPS-mapped in a specific location and sounds will be activated by how the user moves through place. The specific location of each audio experience will also inform the content inside. The audio experience will include original music compositions, field recordings, movement tasks, meditative tasks, questions, reflections, and more.
We hope to engage people of the local communities where each audio experience is created. SonicMvmtScapes is for the community of each specific location. It is for the people who engage with those landscapes everyday, for the people who cross the pathway where our audio experience begins, for the people who walk their dogs on that path, for the people who need to escape for a moment and go to walk that familiar path, for the people curious about these neighborhoods.
SonicMvmtScapes is an invitation for individuals to gain a deeper connection to the places they are a part of, to speculate the ways they relate to space through movement and sound, and to enter a heightened state of listening and presence. SonicMvmtScapes aims to deepen our connection and relation to place so that we can begin to approach place, the self, and others with a heightened sense of care.
The project will be accessible in various cities and local parks across the globe via an app where the sound recordings will exist for users to access at anytime. Each audio experience is GPS-mapped in a specific location and sounds will be activated by how the user moves through place. The specific location of each audio experience will also inform the content inside. The audio experience will include original music compositions, field recordings, movement tasks, meditative tasks, questions, reflections, and more.
We hope to engage people of the local communities where each audio experience is created. SonicMvmtScapes is for the community of each specific location. It is for the people who engage with those landscapes everyday, for the people who cross the pathway where our audio experience begins, for the people who walk their dogs on that path, for the people who need to escape for a moment and go to walk that familiar path, for the people curious about these neighborhoods.
SonicMvmtScapes is an invitation for individuals to gain a deeper connection to the places they are a part of, to speculate the ways they relate to space through movement and sound, and to enter a heightened state of listening and presence. SonicMvmtScapes aims to deepen our connection and relation to place so that we can begin to approach place, the self, and others with a heightened sense of care.
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Info/Access for MÜGGELSEE 3.0
Introducing Release 3.0: MÜGGELSEE in Berlin, Germany! Live from 6 June 2025 to 31 August 2025.
This sound-movement experience takes you from Lake Studios Berlin to Müggel park through the Friedrichshagen Spreetunnel to the forested paths along Müggelsee. Along the way, GPS-triggered soundscapes and texts invite you to tune into your surroundings, encouraging new ways of connecting to and relating with place.
SonicMvmtScapes is a project directed by sound artist Samara Rice and dance artist Yasmine Lindskog that utilizes gps-triggered technology, sound, movement, and text to create unique experiences through urban and natural landscapes. It is an invitation for individuals to gain a deeper connection to the places they are a part of, to speculate the ways they relate to space, and to enter a heightened state of presence.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
INSTRUCTIONS:
We would love to hear about your experience after the event. Please share and give us your feedback via a short survey here.
If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with us at sonicmvmtscapes@gmail.com. If you run into any technical issues with the echoes app, please contact echoes at support@echoes.xyz.
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This sound-movement experience takes you from Lake Studios Berlin to Müggel park through the Friedrichshagen Spreetunnel to the forested paths along Müggelsee. Along the way, GPS-triggered soundscapes and texts invite you to tune into your surroundings, encouraging new ways of connecting to and relating with place.
SonicMvmtScapes is a project directed by sound artist Samara Rice and dance artist Yasmine Lindskog that utilizes gps-triggered technology, sound, movement, and text to create unique experiences through urban and natural landscapes. It is an invitation for individuals to gain a deeper connection to the places they are a part of, to speculate the ways they relate to space, and to enter a heightened state of presence.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
- You need a charged smartphone + headphones.
- Download the audio walk in advance.
- Give yourself time to experience the walk. It can be done in 40 minutes and it can also be stretched if you would like to take more time exploring as you go.
- If a track stops in the middle you can walk back to where you were and it will resume where it stopped.You can always look at the app to see the map. There are little blue shapes where sounds are located. They are activated when you enter the shapes.
- The walk begins at Lake Studios Berlin: Scharnweberstraße 27, 12587 Berlin
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Download the Echoes App for free onto your smartphone. Click here for the link to download.
- Search “Müggelsee 3.0” to find the audio walk file. Or click here to open the file.
- Below the title “Müggelsee 3.0”, there is a blue arrow like this: ︎︎︎ Click on the blue arrow to download the file to your phone so you can access it without data at the park. Choose “Basic” for the sound quality to access the audio walk for free.
- When you get to Lake Studios Berlin, press play and begin to follow the audio walk. If you have “autoplay” turned on then the sounds will activate when you enter the different spaces. A map is provided and corresponding text is available in each audio file should you need to access it.
- Share a photo before, during, or after your audio walk and tag us on social media @sonicmvmtscapes or include the hashtag #sonicmvmtscapes
- Enjoy the experience!
We would love to hear about your experience after the event. Please share and give us your feedback via a short survey here.
If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with us at sonicmvmtscapes@gmail.com. If you run into any technical issues with the echoes app, please contact echoes at support@echoes.xyz.
