Listening Posts was presented as part of the Art Prospect Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia in September 2016.

Note: the recording will play in Russian first, and then in English. This is one of 6 soundscapes. It focuses on maritime and shipbuilding traditions in St. Petersburg. 

This covert sound installation uses location-based media to create a dialogue between participants and their urban surroundings. There are six Listening Posts — specially marked utility boxes — that are positioned on the streets throughout the festival site within the Admiralteysky Municipal Okrug, each with a headphone jack at their base. Once located, plug your headphones in to listen to soundscapes that explore the stories and memories attached to the nearby sites.

www.sarahburrell.info

Listening Posts Soundscape 2: The Shipbuilders

Listening Posts was presented as part of the Art Prospect Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia in September 2016.

Note: the recording will play in Russian first, and then in English. This is one of 6 soundscapes. It focuses on the literary dimension of St. Petersburg, the many authors and texts that have written the city into being.

This covert sound installation uses location-based media to create a dialogue between participants and their urban surroundings. There are six Listening Posts — specially marked utility boxes — that are positioned on the streets throughout the festival site within the Admiralteysky Municipal Okrug, each with a headphone jack at their base. Once located, plug your headphones in to listen to soundscapes that explore the stories and memories attached to the nearby sites.

www.sarahburrell.info

Listening Posts Soundscape 3: City as Text

Sarah Burrell is an interactive artist who uses sound, new technologies, and custom-designed objects to create a dialog between participants their urban surroundings. She has exhibited internationally at a number of public art festivals, most recently at Art Prospekt in St. Petersburg—the first site-specific art festival of its kind in Russia.

Having begun her career as a performance designer for the stage, theatre and storytelling remains a central influence within her work. She uses sound as a tool to overlay the present, offering alternate readings and uncovering the narrative potential in everyday spaces. Her projects take the form of sound installations, audio walks, performance experiences, and design interventions—creating innovative hybrid works that invite people to reimagine the world they live in and how they participate in it.

Sarah Burrell Interactive Art