Amplifying the city-screen: encounters with contemporary

mobile audio practice

Auricle: Sound Cultures of the Future

September 2010

Sarah Barns

encounters with mobile audio�

new domains for sound practice

Not so new…

Jeremy Hight – Narrative Archaeology (2004)

Telefon Hirmondo – Budapest 1901

Hildegaard Westerkamp – A Walk Through the City (1981)

encounters with mobile audio�

Urban sociologists – cultures of ‘social deafness’

Immersed in a private soundscape, engaged in another interactive scene, you do not have to be in the city as a shared perceptual or social space – Fran Tonkiss

A “radical auditory re-prioritisation of forms of urban experience” which enables listeners to experience an environment through privatised, mediated fantasies. – Michael Bull

encounters with mobile audio�

Amplifying spatial excursions – ‘MSG for the senses’

Betsy Biggs – ‘cinematic experiences for real life’

Toby Butler – ‘Memory-scapes’ extend the space of the oral history recording from outside the museum context and into a specific place

Soundwalk.com – audio walks for people who don’t do audio walks

homing in on the street’s archive Experiencing a contemporary space

through its auditory past

Martin Place, VP Day 1945

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ABC Sydney Sidetracks abc.net.au/sidetracks

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learning to get lost

“Not to find oneself in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance – nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city – as one loses oneself in a forest – that calls for quite a different schooling”.

Walter Benjamin Illuminations

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