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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