Travelling Through - A Soundwalk for Elsecar

Flux Upon Dearne is an audio walk that navigates the history of the landscape it is placed in. The walk tracks its journey from wooded meadows to industrial powerhouses and to a regenerated nature reserve; in just over 100 years. Over the course of our two and a half week residency, we embedded ourselves in the community; facilitating workshops and listening to stories and songs to inspire and create content. All credit for the sounds and recordings goes to the people of Wath and Brampton.

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HEARTHIS is an Art and Sound exhibition across various venues in Rotherham town Centre. Artists have composed and submitted work for specific locations around Rotherham Town Centre and you are invited to take some time and experience this invisible layer. HEARTHIS is an ongoing work and you are welcome to submit original audio by contacting ROAR Artspace. All you have to consider is where in Rotherham you would like people to listen to it. Participating Artists: Edward Daw David Owens Inclusion Principle Grooveware Art Sonic Social James Fox Laura Potts Pybus Visual Art works are located at BUZZ Gallery, Westgate Chambers, Westgate Rotherham, S60 1AN 10am-3pm weekdays. ROAR can be contacted at team@rotherhamroar.org www.rotherhamroar.com

An audio tour of the Sheffield Sixties Music Scene. Take a walk as Brian Clark shares memories on Sheffield's music history from the sixties and beyond. Plug your headphones in, leave this app running in your pocket, and you'll hear Brian's voice in your ear when you reach important musical landmarks. With unique insights into the history of the Sheffield Music Scene, mixed with some of the era’s greatest tunes, we’ll virtually guide you around iconic locations from the Applebaum Head Shop to the Mucky Duck. To start your walk, journey into Sheffield City Centre. Written and recorded by Brian Clark.

A celebration of Sheffield’s Street Art with a lot of help from streetartsheffield.com. Visit the 12 artworks following a route designed by Richard Hanks (via Not the Cat Lane Canter Grand Prix), starting and finishing at the newest piece, the Faunagraphica Fox, Meersbrook Park Pavilion.

A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time is an album by the composer Benjamin Tassie. Recorded in Sheffield's historic Rivelin Valley, the album features three new water-powered instruments: a harpsichord, hurdy-gurdy, and hydraulis (or water organ). Powered by the river, the instruments produce sound mechanically. Water-wheels turn to ‘play’ the harpsichord and hurdy-gurdy, while the water organ is sounded as water displaces air within the instrument (a system based on an Ancient Greek design). Combining mechanically-produced historical-music, film, field-recoding, and live performance, A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time explores ideas of heritage, place, and our changing relationship with the landscape. Each track was recorded at the site of a former water mill in the valley. This sound walk returns the music to the locations it was recorded in. A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time is released on the Birmingham Record Company label.

Starting at 'The Crow's Nest', allow three generations of a local family to guide you through the woods and open green spaces of Heeley People's Park. Albert will share its past; a housing estate with neighbouring woodlands, streams and infrastructure. Andy will describe how his community Trust found it, and the process of its development into the park you see around you. Ollie will highlight its importance to his and future generations. Field recordings captured in and around the park have been layered to reflect the dialogue, and processed to create an immersive experience which fluctuates between naturalistic and musical. In order to make the most of these unique interviews, you are encouraged to remain in each zone until the dialogue is finished. However, there is no set path and any route you choose will be soundtracked according to your unique location. The longer you stay in a zone up until approximately 5 minutes, the more the compositions will develop. Some locations within the zones offer their own unique sonic additions to the soundscape which will gain clarity as you approach their source. This unique dissemination of information and experience is intended to reflect the unique and turbulent history of the landscape, and the sensory experience of those within it. Over time, this experience has changed with the shift from dereliction to greenery, from trains to cars, and from community, to consternation and (hopefully) back again. 'Heeley People's Park: An Aural History' offers site-specific discourse on these changes, but as you immerse yourself in this augmented reality, be wary of the intersecting roads that disrupt the peaceful verdancy of the park and host hundreds of cars each day.

A short round walk exploring some of the urban graffiti and industrial wonders of Meersbrook area of Sheffield. Inspired by Tower Block Metal's recommendations. https://www.towerblockmetal.co.uk/

Welcome to this tour of Meersbrook Park. The park has been a wonderful space during 2020, for exercise, revitalisation, solace and connection. As you wander around, you will automatically trigger various 'echoes', spoken word or music reflecting some events, experiences and memories that are now so anchored in this special place. If you listen to all of everything, it takes a couple of hours. Tarry a while and take in the wonder of the world that surrounds you. There's the odd sweary bit! Enjoy! Any feedback or queries? dingerarchos@gmail.com