Go on a soundwalk anytime! Click here for a Do-it-Yourself Soundwalk
by Stephanie Loveless and Brady Marks

19 April 2009 | 2pm
Led by Andrea Dancer
Meet at Green College, UBC, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, under the entry arch between the offices,
Coach House and Graham House.
For details see http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=412
Transit users take the # 84 to Allison Road and walk south or any UBC bus to the
main bus loop and walk west along East Mall.

UBC centre and periphery: a soundwalk through the alternate university. UBC is
made up of diverse communities, reflected in its soundscape. Come explore the
lesser heard places as they bump up against the main university hub, places
where different soundscapes converge.


26 April 2009 | 2 pm
At Port’s End, led by Meris Goodman
Meet at Northeast corner of Burrard View Park, corner of Wall and Slocan.
For details click here.
Transit users take the #4 Powell, Slocan St. stop, and walk North 3 blocks.

This Soundwalk follows last Fall's walk, which explored Wall Street and its environs West of Nanaimo St.,
this time heading further East.  Residential area gives way once more to a domain dominated by traffic and
factories. This walk explores the role of the human voice in places where the voice is rarely heard. 

Soundwalks are free and open to the public; however participants must call to reserve a place as space is
limited.

For further information or to register please email info [at] newmusic.org or call 604.633.0861.

A soundwalk is a silent group walk led along a planned route to experience a location's ambiance and
underlying rhythms. All too often the sounds of the environment pass by unnoticed because of our uncanny
ability to shut them out. A soundwalk enables its participants to actively listen, opening ears and consciousness
to the complex orchestration that the environment is composing at all times. It is a musical-sonic adventure that
reveals the banal to be extraordinary!

Soundwalks have been offered as part of VNM's season since 2003 and have been well-attended from the start.
After every soundwalk interested people have been invited to join in the planning and designing of future such
walks. Now, four years later, a group has emerged that is working together in exploring ever new approaches
to soundwalking, new routes and structures, walks with different themes or walks that may contain subtle
performative aspects. Soundwalk participants can relax and enjoy these fascinating listening journeys under the
safe and inspired guidance of members of this group.

PREVIOUS SOUNDWALKS...

Hear a Soundwalk clip by Ros Oberlyn (2007)

28 September 2008 | 2pm
Rambling through Lynn Canyon - led by Janine Island
Meet at the Lynn Canyon Cafe, 3690 Park Road, North Vancouver
Transit users take the Seabus from Waterfront Skytrain Station to Lonsdale Quay
then take the 229 Westlynn from Bay 3 to Peters Rd. at Duval Rd.; walk east along
Peters Rd. to Park Rd., then turn left. The cafe is at the end of the road.

An exploration into the lush soundscape of Lynn Canyon injected with various ramblings-on
of the late philosopher/poet Alan Watts. Involvement in the exploration of producing or filtering
sounds will be encouraged throughout the walk. Participants may be encouraged to go barefoot
when/if possible, but it is not mandatory.

"As poets value the sounds of words above their meanings, and images above arguments, I am
trying to get thinking people to be aware of the actual vibrations of life as they would listen to
music." - From In My Own Way by Alan Watts.

Photo by David Leith; see more photos here .

5 October 2008 | 2pm
The Line From Both Sides - led by Eric Powell
Meet at Pandora Park at the corner of Pandora and Templeton (one block west of Nanaimo
and 2 blocks north of E Hastings).
Transit users take the 135 or the 10 and walk North one block or take the 7 along Nanaimo.

This soundwalk navigates the transitions between the industrial and living spaces around Wall
street. Small pockets of homes sit overlooking ports, surrounded by railroads and high-traffic
roadways. Where does the balance exist in these areas in-between, when industrial sound signals
begin to mean home?

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