“Listen, and Imagine: Speculative Soundwalking” presented by Simmons

• Keira J Simmons

• Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia

This paper introduces Speculative Soundwalking, a format of interactive sound art that utilises embodied listening in place, exploring speculative realities of a particular space. Speculative Soundwalking taps into the co-habitation of past, present and future in a given place, offering listeners a narrative filter through which to experi-ence this temporal layering. As a step towards developing a creative framework for other artists to access, I present two example projects to demonstrate how Speculative Soundwalking can be realised in public presentation. I will further contextualise the format within the sound and listening practices it inherits, pulling them together to argue for Speculative Soundwalking’s affective capacity to lead listeners in imagining and embodying diverging realities.

• Soundwalking
• Deep Listening
• Speculative Fiction
• acoustic ecology
• embodiment
• Public Art

• Artist Talk