Fall Soundwalks 2019
September 1, 22 + 29, 2019
Soundwalk Sunday Soundwalk: Playing the Burrard Bridge with Sound
Sunday, September 1, 2019; 2PM
Hosted by Matthew Ariaratnam, Elizabeth Ellis, Julie Hammond, and Helena Krobath
Meeting Location: 999 Beach Avenue (Green Streets Community Garden, located under the Burrard Bridge)
FREE EVENT!
Hosted by artists from the Vancouver Soundwalk Collective and the Soundscape Show (Co-op Radio 100.5 FM), join us in turning the Burrard Bridge into a giant musical instrument. The railings of Burrard Bridge create multi-tonal sounds, launching vibrations that reach the walkers behind. In this ‘noisewalk’, we will form a chain of bridge players, creating a mass of resonant pitches with everyday implements. We will provide a few light implements, such as maple stems and spoons—or bring your own!
Bridges are engineering feats designed to carry heavy loads, span wide spaces, and resist the elements. They create crossing points at some locations and not others and are often windy, noisy, and bare—a place to cross quickly, despite panoramic views. In this soundwalk, we re-consider the bridge as a place to play. Rather than hurrying, we invite participants to explore a thought, feeling, or intention through sound, allowing the large vibrations of the bridge railings to mingle with the noise of others.
All are welcome; no musical experience necessary. Listeners welcome.
This soundwalk will take place rain or shine. Please be sure to wear appropriate footwear and clothing. The walk involves a set of stairs at each end of the bridge and a slow walk across the bridge itself. It lasts for one hour. If you have any mobility concerns please contact heather@newmusic.org.
This soundwalk is part of Soundwalk Sunday, organized by the Museum of Walking in the UK.
Corners and Edges, A Coal Harbour Soundwalk
Sunday, September 22, 2019; 2-3:30PM
Led by Jamie Dolinko
Meeting location: North east corner of Cardero and Georgia, across the street from the White spot.
This soundwalk will end near West Cordova and Bute.
FREE EVENT!
Vancouver Soundwalk Collective member Jamie Dolinko leads a soundwalk around Coal Harbour, contemplating the sounds that appear and disappear around sound-sealed office buildings and apartments. Explore the area’s sharp corners as they collide and absorb the nearby traffic and coastline.
After studying photography in Amsterdam at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and graduating from the Ontario College of Art in 1990, Jamie Dolinko received her MFA in Photography and Computer-Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1992. Jamie’s work has been shown in Europe and North America at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Arti et Amicitae in Amsterdam, the Velan Centro D’arte Contemporanea in Torino, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Hong Kong. Large scale images of her photographs were displayed at the Cambie and King Edward Canada Line Station, through their Public Art Program and the Capture Photography Festival in Vancouver. A true flâneur, Jamie loves walking through cities, and wears a size 7 shoe.
Listening All Along the Watchtower
A Culture Days Soundwalk
Sunday, September 29, 2019; 2-3:30PM
Led by Jorma Kujala
Meeting location: Outside entrance to Bloedel Conservatory, 4600 Cambie St, Vancouver, Queen Elizabeth Park (nearest transit: Bus Route 33, stop # 61099, direction 29TH Ave Stn; Bus Route 15, stop # 50421, direction Cambie).
This soundwalk will end near the intersection of West 29th Avenue and Heather Street.
FREE EVENT!
Vancouver’s Cambie Street bisects through the centre of our city, weaving together various facets of daily urban life, while also mirroring similar development pressures in our Regional District and elsewhere. The City of Vancouver acknowledges the importance of the Cambie Corridor as a significant aspect of a sustainable, livable city comprised of neighbourhoods, amenities and services. Notable in the City’s Cambie Corridor Plan is its focus on creating the largest area of growth outside of Downtown, doubling the area’s population while also adding over 30,000 homes.
Continuing an ongoing investigation and critique of social institutions, this soundwalk will traverse a number of uses and power relations that encapsulate this microcosm of our contemporary urban landscape. Acknowledging these organizations, uses, rituals and customs function to the benefit or detriment of society, this soundwalk asks participants to consider past, present and future sounds, lives, and voices, both heard and unheard. Our approximately 75-minute investigation meanders through aspects of life and living, and is bookended on a leisure and playful theme.
Beginning at the meeting location, we overlap aspects of Westerkamp and McCartney’s 1997 soundwalk in Queen Elizabeth Park, another audible marker of historical sounds and experiences that echoes through the present into the future. Our walk concludes with an invitation to play, listen and contemplate at Myfanwy MacLeod and Shannon Oksanen’s public art installation Playtime, near the intersection of West 29th Avenue and Heather Street.
