Audio Intervention at City Sonic Places Symposium
2 Feb 2018

*Participation is welcome*  You are encouraged to listen to this work, out loud, from your mobile phone in the public space around Elephant & Castle with Shanti, who will be performing the work between 1.30 - 1.50pm.

A census helps governments form policies, businesses target customers, charities fight for social welfare needs and academics and artists find areas of scrutiny. But the onslaught of cuts affecting people with disabilities, families of various configurations and people wanting to leave the renting market leaves the distinct feeling that something might be getting lost in translation. The numbers are either wrong or being ignored, so in an attempt to create a moment of solace, Sense Us takes the binary data produced by census data of the SE1 6SB area (gender, ethnicity, passport held, employment status) and injects ‘living statistics’ comprising voices and sounds from the community and city environment. Sense Us is a pre-recorded piece bringing together personal narratives, statistics, readings of policies and field-recordings of the area. This simple combination, including the live sounds present when hearing the piece, will counter and confirm the characters behind and within the numbers in this playful sound piece.

http://www.crisap.org/research/projects/city-sonic-places-experiencing-the-urban-soundscape/

Sense Us By Shanti Suki Osman | City Sonic Places

Audio Walk at City Sonic Places Symposium
2 Feb 2018

T_h_reading the labyrinth is an audio walk tracing the mesh of historic pathways that lie beneath the traffic system outside the College. On 2 February it will be just over two years since the last entrance to the pedestrian subway at Elephant & Castle was blocked and the tunnel system below the roundabout sealed for ever. Yet the “Bend” which has replaced the old roundabout remains the site of gridlock and accidents. In t_h_reading the labyrinth, listeners – paying due respect to the 21st‑century gods of health & safety by only ever crossing on the green man – walk as far as possible the circuit of the old labyrinth above ground. Interspersed with a collage of sounds recorded in various other tunnels below London, the voice of Ariadne gently forges connections between the listener and the passages beneath their feet, reading, treading and re‑threading an ancient subterranean network beneath the city and attempting to rekindle its power.

Audio players & headphones, together with a map will be available from LCC reception.

http://www.crisap.org/research/projects/city-sonic-places-experiencing-the-urban-soundscape/

t_h_reading the labyrinth By Debbie Kent | City Sonic Placces

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