Ungdomsøen is an immersive, site-specific sound walk that brings the island’s history to life through oral storytelling and environmental sound.

Walking Lines transforms GPS-tracked walks into evolving drawings. Routes, ambient sound and movement generate visual forms that record the body’s encounter with place, treating walking as a tool for perception, memory and spatial inquiry.

A series of 12 drawings made into soft beeswax in response to sensorial input detected while walking. The surface is a proxy for the body, the meeting point for inner and outer worlds.

Bound to an old larch tree by a single length of rope wound around each of us, we walked.

A sound walk through Malmesbury’s streets, riverside and Abbey, weaving local voices, birdsong, bells and everyday sounds with a newly composed score to reveal the town’s past and present through walking and listening.

The Hum is an multispecies opera exploring how collaborative storytelling can inspire action in the face of perilous climate change.

The Museum of Misplaced Monuments is a participatory walking and listening project that treats ordinary urban memories as temporary counter-monuments.

An immersive audio walk through Torviscosa, a Fascist-era industrial town in North-Eastern Italy. History, propaganda, workers’ struggles and environmental change unfold through the voices and imagination of local high school students.

An audio piece that takes you on a walking event in Far East Gippsland, complete with collecting trash and making musical instruments, and dreaming up ideas for this walking trail.

“Five Essays on Caramoor” is a site-specific sound walk created in 2025 for the Caramoor Festival. It includes five audio tracks experienced via headphones, each correlated to a visual collage. The work is part of their permanent collection.

This Was Our Neighbourhood is a locative sound walk through a city neighbourhood steeped in histories of technological advancement, social change, and settler colonialism. This was part of Jane's Walk Hamilton.

A geolocated soundwalk mapping eleven co-researchers’ compositions onto listening points throughout the Gay Village, creating a collective queer sonic geography of the district.

'Stand at the shoreline and listen' is a soundwalk inviting you to do just that: to look at the sea and explore its myriad meanings. This meditative trio for listener, headphones and sea is inspired by Virgina Woolf’s 'The Waves'.

A walking intervention that forces a naturally drifting rolbos along an abandoned railway while carrying sealed community messages, combining movement, ecological metaphor and local memory.

An itinerant site-specific performance in which audiences traverse four nocturnal groves, encountering music shaped by the garden’s scenery, spatial distances and their own movement.

An itinerant site-specific performance in which audiences traverse four nocturnal groves, encountering music shaped by the garden’s scenery, spatial distances and their own movement.

A bilingual walking performance through Gorizia and Nova Gorica, designed for Italian- and Slovenian-speaking participants: an audio-guided journey through places and voices of those who experienced the trauma of the new border being drawn in 1947.

Walking through places generates mental images we carry with us: glimpses of where we were and what we did. But can we be sure of that? Think of the image you carry of a place you’ve walked: its colours, how it unfolded, its texture, its sound. Always slipping, always being remade, but it’s perhaps in this very impossibility of holding it still that the poetics of walking lies. For almost 20 years, artist Yannis Ziogas has curated Visual Marches to Prespes, a nomadic project re-exploring the area tri-bordering Greece, Albania and North Macedonia. Here, walking art goes beyond the object to become ‘a locus in which places, ideas and images’ come alive through the embodied experience of walkers. This contribution looks back at photographs gathered along this journey, and on how they resist fixity; never settled, never still, always in the process of finding their form.

Washed ashore after an unearthly storm, you awaken on the beach with no memory of how you arrived there!? Step into a parallel town where ley lines, dark magic and strange seaside folklore await.

A set of instructions for walking Bourbon Street after 1am, for what the official street record leaves out.

Bì Glic! is a bilingual soundwalk for visitors to RSPB Balranald, North Uist, Western Isles of Scotland, using music, stories, field recordings and Gaelic birdlore to deepen understanding of the reserve’s ecology, culture and living heritage.

The story unfolds through the voice of a woman sent by an obscure and elusive Firm to retrieve the secrets stolen by an equally brilliant and charming con man, engaging listeners in a tense cat-and-mouse chase.

Memory is a profound aspect of human existence. It shapes our identity, influences our decisions, and anchors us to our past. The interplay between remembering and forgetting is crucial in navigating our lives, as each serves a distinct and essential purpose. In this publication, Babak Fakhamzadeh documents 60 interventions in the public space, in 16

Serious Music with Bea Witkin is a site-specific audio walk on New York City’s Upper West Side produced by Megan Hattie Stahl. This immersive, musical documentary explores and extends the life and work of composer Beatrice Witkin (1916-1990).

A trilingual musical storytelling walk through the memorial’s museum, hall and outdoor grounds, spatially connecting women’s resistance narratives with this historically charged site.

A despatch from our story-writer-in-residence Penny Walker. 8th September 2026, Paradise Fields, Ealing, half a mile. It has been raining hard all morning and into the afternoon, but now we are at the gate, in the early evening, the sun is out. We wear our sensible footwear, raincoats, some of us have binoculars.  In this small

Directed by Antoine Beaufort, La Cache is a sound walk created by the Ars Nomadis collective at the Tour de Cesson estate (Saint-Brieuc, France), with the participation of over a hundred local residents.

Are You Lost? was a series of film, sound and textile installations across the Forest of Bowland which explored the diverse voices and perspectives of the communities that live around the area.

Great Measurement is a drawing method activated by walking, a 1:1 scale measuring device deployed in tandem.

A linear, recorded soundwalk documented through binaural field recording and GPS mapping (Strava). The piece captures a real-time walking performance through the streets of Barcelona, allowing the listener to experience it as an immersive sonic diary

Whittier, Alaska: 272 people under one roof, and an empty roof 660 yards away.

Kwun Tong’s industrial back alleys are “liminal spaces”—transitional zones with ambiguous identities. An audio walk project uses phone sensors and AI to translate the disorientation of these “non-places” into a unique, immersive sensory experience.

This post describes an eight-step guided walking exercise focused on attentive listening without equipment, encouraging participants to engage with their environment through sound and movement. The walk emphasizes sensory awareness by exploring unfamiliar routes, identifying natural and mechanical sounds, and responding to weather conditions, culminating in a reflective listening moment.

Eight rooms of rain from eight places. One walk, headphones on.

A 35:56 sound walk for one walker, rain optional. Eleven rooms where weather is waited out, stitched into one continuous recording, five seams, no gaps. Listen (plain MP3, plays in any browser) here. How to walk it. Press play and walk; or walk it muted in real rain. The rooms are the instructions; the recording

An installation and performance by interdisciplinary artist Melanie Thompson and composer Helen Ottaway.

Three voiced pieces from Munsterplatz, Freiburg, at the three hours of its market day the record does not keep: the dark hour, the set-up, the fold-down.

An interactive walking performance using embodied tasks, anger and acts of repair to reconsider ecological breakdown while sensing Sophienholm’s park collectively.

A short free listening walk on The Shore, Leith, timed to the One O'Clock Gun: stand where a time signal aimed at ships finally lands, about ten seconds after it was fired.

An audio walking performance in Iceland. I wanted to be able to create a narrative using just sounds as a reference.

A live, theatrical audio experience for one to one-thousand people, common guides participants around the Amherst Town Common via their own devices and headphones by way of a custom app that synchronizes everyone to each other – and to a secret cast.

The Strange, Magical, Mythical Tour of Kilfinane is a sound walk co-produced with 12 year olds from Kilfinane. It's a journey through their imaginations, sharing mythical backstories of landmarks old and new.

Seven night walks on the Riviera coast, written at the speed of feet. A racing driver walks the places the car hides, and finds the one passage that refuses the walk. Every place that pulled at me was a way in without an engine.

A four-minute sound walk for Glenrio, the Route 66 town on the TX/NM line that lost its traffic to Interstate 40 in 1973. Made from street-view panoramas and public history, by a walker with no body.

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For the WLC Online Jury, this meeting is to discuss this year's submissions for Sound Walk September.