Sounds Of Old Dixie Highway


Upcoming Soundwalks
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at RAW Space
Saturday, February 22, 2025 at RAW Space
10 – 11:30AM
Free/By Donation

Visit my Soundwalk Experience post for more details and stay tuned for more soundwalk opportunities!

We recently had an amazing soundwalk as part of the (abstract)URGE exhibition at RAW Space. After a brief discussion about ways of listening we ventured out onto Old Dixie for a sonic adventure. Here are just a few of the sounds we heard. It’s amazing how the ordinary can reveal the extraordinary when you are still and listening.

I invite you into our experience. Headphones recommended to get the full stereo effect.

Cars Passing By
Angry Car Horn
Door Slam + Lock
Restaurant Window Washing
Motorcycle Drive By
Walking On Dried Palm Fronds
Walking On Gravel

Not looking for good sounds or bad sounds, just listening and noticing what you perceive. Notice how some sounds might attract you while others repel you. 

Suggestions for Further Exploration 
Sam Green, 32 Sounds
John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
Kay Larson, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life
of Artists

Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice, Quantum Listening
R. Murray Shafer, The Soundscape, The Tuning of the World
Hildegard Westerkamp’s 1989 Kits Beach Soundwalk, https://youtu.be/hg96nU6ltLk
Bernie Krause, The Great Animal Orchestra, Notes from the Wild: The Nature Recording Expeditions of
Bernie Krause

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