ABOUT SOUNDWALK

This event, conceived of as SoundWalk, is a variation on the concept of the usual "ArtWalk" events that happen every 2nd Saturday in the Arts District. We envisioned an environmental experience, which alters the participants' perception of their sense of being in a familiar space. Habituation blunts our inquisitiveness, our engagement in the visual as well as audible surroundings. Sound installations will thus not only be an exciting moment of perception, but a way of rethinking our sensory engagement with the spaces in which we function.In contrast to indoor art installations, which are seen and experienced as separate from our daily routines, we are visited with the expectation of the extra-ordinary. Our sound-installations function in concert with the sounds of the city, thus adding, altering and intermingling with the customary. The outdoor locations keep the ordinary din of the city in the extra-ordinary event. The viewer may thus perceive common occurrences in startling new ways. We wish to surprise, puzzle, enchant, excite and delight those who intentionally or unintentionally participate in SoundWalk.

The First Annual Soundwalk that took place Aug. 21, 2004 was sponsored by the Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA), Gallery 33 East, Logistik Media Design, 689 Design and the East Village Association (EVA). A Catalog & CD of the artists involved in the first event was produced and funded by the DLBA. Addtional marketing and promotion of the project was also funded by the DLBA.

Notes on Soundwalk from Frauke von der Horst...Click Here

Here's a couple Press Articles...more to follow: Downtown Gazette O.C. Weekly

SOUNDWALK 2005 is sponsored in part by The Corporation for the Arts, The DLBA, and The City of Long Beach.

Please contact us with any further questions or comments regarding Soundwalk or FLOOD.

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