Harrogate Sound Survey
Every episode in this series starts the same way. I walk out with a recorder and no fixed plan, and let the town decide the route. That is close to what the Situationists called the dérive: instead of choosing where to go, you let the place choose for you.
Flâneurs used to walk a city to see it properly. Sound Map of Harrogate does the same with a microphone, working through the town one place at a time. Some of these recordings come from streets everyone in Harrogate already knows. Others come from corners most people walk past without a second look. Either way, the point is the same: to hear the town rather than move through it.
It shares the aim behind everything else The Stray Walkers do: becoming a stranger in your own town again.
This is part of an ongoing project called The Stray Walkers, a Harrogate based not-for-profit collective of artists, activists and urban wanderers interested in psychogeography, public space and the hidden stories of the city. Find out more at www.thestraywalkers.org.
Best listened to on good quality headphones, this podcast used to be called 'A Sound Map Of Harrogate.'
Harrogate Sound Survey
Wet Railings Recorded Using a Geophone
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This episode is a tree dripping water from an earlier shower on to metal railings. It was recorded through a LOM Geofón Geophone.
Every episode in this series starts the same way. I walk out with a recorder and no fixed plan, and let the town decide the route. That is close to what the Situationists called the dérive: instead of choosing where to go, you let the place choose for you.
Flâneurs used to walk a city to see it properly. The Harrogate Sound Survey does the same with a microphone, working through the town one place at a time. Some of these recordings come from streets everyone in Harrogate already knows. Others come from corners most people walk past without a second look. Either way, the point is the same: to hear the town rather than move through it.
It shares the aim behind everything else The Stray Walkers do: becoming a stranger in your own town again.
This is part of an ongoing project called The Stray Walkers, a Harrogate based not-for-profit collective of artists, activists and urban wanderers interested in psychogeography, public space and the hidden stories of the city. Find out more at www.thestraywalkers.org.
Best listened to on good quality headphones.