Tuesday October 1st Sound Walk

Fairhaven Park / 100 Acre Woods

Some guidelines for Soundwalking:

No Talking. Let’s hold our silence like a secret!

Try to give each other enough space to hear your own footsteps.

Walk as if your feet have ears!

Listen without expectations or judgement, without the need to define or categorise.

Listen with your heart.

When soundwalking you are listening to your own hearing self and the environment. You are part of the soundscape too.

If anyone asks what you are doing, tell them, “we are on a sound walk.”

Sound Hunting:

Halfway through our walk I will make a sound and we will change from soundwalking to soundhunting!

Try to identify at least one example of 3 kinds of sounds:

Biophony  Sounds made by more than human living organisms like animals, trees, insects.

Anthropophony (anne-throw-puff-o-phone-E)  Sounds made by humans, directly, like talking, singing and indirectly, like traffic and construction noise.

Geophony:  Sounds made by natural elements, water, earth, fire, air.

During our soundhunt, make mental notes of what sounds you hear and what type of sound they are. What is the most common sound? What is the least common sound? What sound surprised you?

I will lead us on a route that makes a loop inside 100 Acre Woods. Once we get back to the amphitheater we can let go of our secret silence.