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Budget Travel’s Blog recently highlighted Soundwalk as an international innovator of audio tours.
“Founder Stephan Crasneanscki revolutionized audio tours eight years ago by focusing on under-the-radar neighborhoods and recruiting pop-culture narrators. The company’s latest endeavor: partnering with Louis Vuitton to create guided walks through Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong in which Chinese actresses weave local folktales into their narratives.”
Read full article here.
‘KILL THE EGO’ , an audio portrait of New York City conceived by Soundwalk, visually interpreted as a motion painting film by Rostarr and directed by Jim Helton & Ron Patane, will be the feature presentation of NEW FILMMAKERS New York Wednesday July 8th at 9:00PM Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Ave.
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Check it: Chinatown Soundwalk narrated by Jami Gong
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Bold pics and thoughtful written response to our BRONX soundwalks from artist and blogger Chauncey P. Graham on Yes, David is Here.
“…It was part scavenger hunt and part educational talk, as we maneuvered our way around an unfamiliar part of town to learn about the founding fathers of two of today’s most vital sub-cultures. We learned about the Tats Cru, a Graffiti crew with tags and murals all over New York City subways and buildings, and visited their hang-out spots and some of their more notable bodies of work. It was fantastic…”
Check it: BRONX: Graffiti Soundwalk and Hip Hop Soundwalk narrated by The Original Jazzy Jay
Digital Urban presents a Youtube video illustrating the relationship between our urban space and aural experience. In this video they demonstrate how overlaying a musical soundtrack on an otherwise average urban space can alter its perception. You can try the same thing with any of our Soundwalk tours.
We posted about the Montreal Sound Map on our Twitter yesterday, but some more Googling quickly revealed a New York City sound map too. NYSoundMap.org is a collection of sound artists, architects, engineers, designers and philosophers whose intent to map New York City is grounded in the relationship between sound and the urban environment. The result of their efforts is Sound Seeker — an awesome interactive map of sounds in New York that range from Penn Station to a Bushwick rooftop at dusk, in which you can feel the neighborhood winding down after a long day, complete with the distant tones of an ice cream truck making its last rounds.
A shout out to Victoria Fenner, creator of The Roaming Ear Podcast, for posting about Soundwalk on her blog. With over 20 years as a radio producer and field recording tech, Victoria’s ears are well tuned to hear the world in surprising ways. Keep an ear out for her upcoming Podcast episode discussing soundwalking.
View from the bottom of The New York Marriott Marquis free high speed glass elevator that zooms up 49 floors without stopping. One of the highlights of our Times Square Soundwalk narrated by Timothy “Speed” Levitch.
Image: Lisa Niedermeyer
Ulysses Syndrome is a sound journey recorded along the Mediterranean sea. Throughout the summer we will be posting audio clips of this work in progress which Soundwalk will complete in October. Recording and image courtesy of Stephan Crasneanscki. St Tropez, France.
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Paul Auster gave a short reading of an excerpt from his new book, Invisible, last week at The New School at an evening hosted by Granta. The evening was punctuated by an odd occurrence in which a woman from the audience asked him whether it had been his idea to turn his 1999 novella, Timbuktu, into a children’s book. Auster and his editor, also in the audience were dumbfounded, having no knowledge of a children’s book version of Timbuktu. The mystery was shortly resolved however when it came to light that a German packaging/publishing company named Minedition had approached Auster about a children’s book version some time ago. The company’s server had crashed, erasing all records of their previous communication on the illustrations and abridgments.
Auster was also interviewed by the Financial Times this week in their series, Short Talk. Read the interview here. Auster first collaborated with Soundwalk in the creating the Ground Zero soundwalk in commemoration of the September 11th tragedy. You can download the Ground Zero Soundwalk and find out more about it here.
