This is the audio track (without spoken words) of the 50th episode of The Power of Music Thinking podcast with sounds from the Biennale in Venice (Italy). Your hear a lot of cicadas.
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Soundtrack of The Power of Music Thinking Podcast special episode: Sound Walking in the Summer

Try out with different cicada transpositions and a drum beat

Cicada Beat - Boretto4 - Sound World II

try out with the circle saws and transposition

Circle - Saw - Slow9200

soundwalk through the italian pavillion during biennale Venice 2024.  The composition written specifically for 'Due qui' is by two young musicians at the leading edge of experimental and electronic music: Caterina Barbieri (b. 1990, Italy) and Kali Malone (b. 1994, United States). What you hear is the sound walk including noises of nature, and people (not in the music).

Italian - Pavilion - Sound - Walk - 2024

The famous Shibuya Scramble Crossing in Tokyo. It is like a party, people wait until there is a green light, and then they rush to the middle of the crossing to take selfies. Big tourist attraction. In the sound file, you can hear the green phase twice. Fun fact, the picture here is taken 100 meter to the right where there is the same crossing, but no people there. 

Shibuya-Scramble-Crossing-250706-132255

Field recording outside the famous Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto, with the fabulous stone garden with 15 rocks. I made a recording of a small water fountain, you hear in the background a car approaching, opening a gate, driving through the gate, closing the gate, and the driving away. At the end, you only hear the high-pitched cicadas and the running water.

Field recording outside the Ryoanji temple in Kyoto

This is my favourite audio postcard: I had the luck to be at the biggest stone garden (Zen garden) in Japan when it was maintained. This is a rare moment when you can experience the gardener drawing his wooden rake over the gravel to make these straight, beautiful lines. It is hard work and at the beginning of the recording, you can hear that he stops for a moment and then goes further. The second time, he draws the whole line without stopping. As I gave him a thankful bow for his work, he answered with Arrigato (in the middle of the recording).

Banryūtei rock garden of Kongobuji Temple in Koyasan

This is a 10-minute sound walk through a hidden concrete brutalist creation of famous architect Tadao Ando. Within the concrete walls of the Garden, visitors can find huge ceramic reproductions of a wide range of European works of art. Classics such as Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” tower over the location in its entirety, standing almost as tall and wide as the original. Naturally, Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” is prominently displayed, along with select reproductions of Renoir and Van Gogh. 
But what struck me was the immense sound of the different waterfalls, water basins. I wandered through all the ways with my recorder in hand. Enjoy the white sounds of water, crescendo, decrescendo and even some people talking in the background. Use headphones, it is a trip. Even my tinnitus was quiet for the time being.

Sound Walk through the Garden of Fine Arts of Tadao Ando in Kyoto

This is a sound walk through the streets of Kyoto during the festival month of July. Big floats of wood and straw-like material were created and hosted a Gagaku ensemble. While walking through the streets, you hear the sounds of traffic, people talking, music from different shops, restaurants, and two Gagaku ensembles blending in, like I walk.

Kyoto soundwalk in the streets during july festival

Joris Timans EJJI with field recordings from Christof Zürn

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