Tutorial Statement

The Soundwalk as an Art Form presents an overview of the history of the participatory walk as an art form, including the soundwalk and its key concepts and development at Simon Fraser University, while providing a theoretical tool box for creating ones own soundwalk as a transformative art experience. When leading a soundwalk we are combining the perceiver and the perceived, the participant and observer in an improvisatory way in the physical environment. Soundwalks may disrupt a once familiar sense of place, and instead guide us on a path created by our ears rather than by the imposed visual cues of the urban environment. Sound artist, Andrea Williams, will lead a brief half-hour soundwalk around the still controversial Woodward Building to provide one of many examples of how one might begin to work within a community to create one’s own soundwalk. Following the walk, there will be an hour of break-out groups for discussion. Duration: Half Day.                            listeninglistening.com/isea-2015-vancouver-bc.html

• Andrea Williams, Sound Artist, Ph.D. Candidate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. soundwalks, environmental psychology, all things sound, teaching.
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