Participatory guided sound walk
Xeno Walk is a series of Augmented Reality audio walks with the voices and sound works of activists and sound producers who embrace the collage as a tool of aural exploration. The walks feature the artworks of #VIVAS, a Latin America-based collective producing sound works from field recordings of social demonstrations, Viv Corringham’s Shadow Walks, and voices of members of Collage Féministes & Collages Féminicides Montréal and Paris. The walk’s sound design takes the form of an audio collage mixing their soundtracks and interviews.
The audio is activated through the listener’s walk, using cellphone geolocation to trigger the sounds along the selected routes. In these walks, the listener will hear the interviews in Spanish, English and French. The listener can choose to experience this walk using headphones; however, this AR project is meant to be heard as a collective soundwalk with two or more persons.
The sonic walk will be located at the intersection of Van Horne Skatepark and Champs des possibles in connection with wheat-paste phrases responding to #Vivas’ and Corringham’s works regarding gender, sound, space, and creative inclusion.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUDIENCES
The sound walks featured during Calling Planet Earth! Ligne d’alerte! are participatory performances. We encourage you to bring a Bluetooth speaker or headphones to the walk if you want to experience alternative forms of sound amplification. We will provide you further instructions at our meeting point.
You can also walk and immerse in the experience independently by following these instructions:
Take a picture of the QR code on this website
Download the ECHOES interactive sounds walks mobile app (iOS or Android)
Select and open “Xeno Walk” featured in the app
You must be in the geographic area near L’Entrepôt77 / Van Horne skatepark to activate this walk
Start walking in the areas highlighted on the map to trigger the sounds
Use headphones or a Bluetooth speaker to listen