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Come on a sonic journey through the forest with students from Mars class, Slated Row School, Milton Keynes. Featuring three fantastic original compositions, you can journey to Kents Hill Park near Slated Row to do the trail, or listen from the comfort of your own home! You will need to download the Echoes app to listen to the music. Enjoy! Created by students and staff in Mars class, Slated Row, Milton Keynes, in collaboration with Drake Music, The Stables, IF: Milton Keynes International Festival and Milton Keynes Music Hub. . For more information on the project head to www.plantedsymphony.com

An audio anthology of poems and stories inspired by the theme of "Walking Home" produced by walk · listen · create in association with the Milton Keynes Literary Festival and the Parks Trust. Earlier in 2022, Walk Listen Create ran a writing competition inviting people to submit poetry and stories of up to 250 words on the theme of “Walking Home”. They published a printed chapbook of the anthology and invited the authors to record themselves reading their work. Since then, they have reached out to MK Lit Fest to establish a collaborative project. The resulting audio anthology, available as a SoundWalk called Walking Home – Milton Keynes, draws on these existing audio recordings and incorporates: recordings of selected poems and short stories from MK Lit Fest’s MinK #1 and #2 printed anthologies recordings of poems from the winners of The Parks Trust’s 2022 Poetry Competition.

LOTUSLAND philip cornett & paul kindersley This work was developed with a professional development bursary from a-n more information can be found here: https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/lotusland-development/ the following is an excerpt of the above blog: LOTUSLAND : THE MUSICAL We began our selection process, finding a handful of videos with the most in-depth narratives and characters. We then framed them within this ‘Professional Development’ process, creating a John Dee style oracle that embodied the need to look into the future, to understand LOTUSLAND and what is out of our control. The main character, Rosey Stoner, starts off as an isolated creative entity, who dreams of the world outside, and yearns to develop through external validation. They are unaware of what they are, and their power within – they are our rosetta stone, that they are the key to their own deeper understanding of their mode of operation. We continued the filming over the week and invited artist, Mark Scott Wood of OUTPOST (Norwich), who became part of the film along with Norwich-based filmmaker, Sam Tring. We then created a mummers-influenced play using scripts from our past work. Completely improvised, this three act play documented Rosey Stoner’s journey outside their isolated creative space into an urban landscape, where they are full of enthusiasm, taken advantage of by a ‘corporate piggy’, but in the end triumphs over their exploitation becoming professionally developed and self-sufficient. Mark and Sam’s involvement directly progressed this part of the production, allowing our professional relationships to become stronger in what could have been viewed as an alternative corporate team building activity. We then took our week worth of footage and edited what is now titled LOTUSLAND : THE MUSICAL, bringing together the documentation of our development as a collaborative production unit. full film here: https://youtu.be/XaGJIQN4k1w

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Ramsey : Through Our Eyes and Ears , is a sound walk recorded, produced, and composed by members of CRUNCH Ramsey Youth Group. This work was created through a series of workshops co-led by Karen Frances Eng and myself. Led by Karen, the young people, aged 11-16, produced a virtual reality work based on the walk and locations that hold a special meaning to them. They also produced a tagtool animation which they also collaboratively created. There will be a link to view these at some point in the near future. I led the audio side of the work, and facilitated the recording, editing and composing of the sound work with the young people in Ramsey and at Wysing Arts Centre's recording studio. The workshop was facilitated by Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridgeshire in partnership with The Ramsey Neighbourhood Trust. July 2022

"Voice of trees" is a sound installation of poems in nature by Italian artist Giovanna Iorio. Enjoy a sound walk in Hertford Castle discovering poems in different location of the beautiful park, listen to the "Voice of trees" and find the ten poems one by one or enjoy all of them in the Moat Garden. The sound installation is also in Panshanger, near the Great Oak And on the River Lea, near the Willow Sound walk by Giovanna Iorio Poems by Giovanna Iorio English Translation by Marco Sonzogni Voice Charlotte Chadwick-Jones Music Lucio Lazzaruolo https://www.notturnoconcertante.it/ Images on covers: Voice Portraits by Giovanna Iorio https://voiceportraits.weebly.com/

**UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE** **COLLEGE LANE CAMPUS** **WALK BEGINS OUTSIDE MAIN RECEPTION** Grab your headphones and get ready to be immersed in this latest solo audio experience from ThickSkin. Created specially for the University of Hertfordshire's 'Festival of Ideas', this 30 minute walking experience around the festival area follows our feline friend Picatto as he shares some of his favourite stories about the University. **TRIGGER WARNING: The audio play contains two stories with references to illness and grief which may be distressing to some listeners.** Age recommendation 12+ or with adult supervision. When you are standing outside the main reception on College Lane Campus you can press start. **Creative Team** Writer - Ajjaz Awad-Ibrahim Director - Neil Bettles Composer & Sound Designer - Neil Bettles **Voice Cast** Picatto - Jonnie Riordan

Inspired by my relationship with and time spent with Richard Demarco, who enlightened me on the concept of art as a journey. A Hertford walk to Teardrop Island. Get the best experience by downloading the walk. DIRECTIONS: Start on the brige in Mill Road. The indicator shows you your position. Walk into each bubble. All the music featured in this walk is available on various online platforms. Follow me: @aletiaupstairs on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter or email: music@aletiaupstairs.com. Donations:paypal.me/aletiaupstairs DIRECTIONS: Start on the bridge at the bottom of Mill Road, with Hertford Basin on your left, then follow the numbers in sequence. The indicator shows you your position. Walk into each bubble.