Picton Play Soundwalk

The “iconic” Beatles song tells the story of a small part of Liverpool with descriptive building and characters. In reviewing the Lyrics some key aspects can be identified today.

This sound walk is a collection of fragments from artists Dan Waine and Mali Draper’s collaborative practice, combining immersive sound design and storytelling. “The moments from the night on the island are disjunct in the way that they sit in my head. Actually, on second thought they don’t sit, they bounce. I sat on the edge of a wall that surrounded a car park. The sky was much darker by this point, even the clouds were indistinct. They had dissolved into the indigo inkiness that hung above me. The red lights revealed themselves once again. On, two, three, four, five, six, seven, off…” The story centres around a character who accidentally gets trapped on an uninhabited island for an evening. The narrator finds themselves isolated without contact to the rest of the world, though still in view of the mainland over the body of water that separates them. A recurring focal point of the narrative is a mysterious red light that comes and goes, which ignites curiosity in the narrator, pulling them in and out of a dream-like progression throughout. The thoughts of the narrator may be shared with the audience, their fragmented and buffering nature feel very much like being put on pause; the lingering between one moment and another. Due to COVID-19 this work has been adapted from what was originally planned to be an indoor, interactive installation at OUTPUT gallery. Dan and Mali have dissected their work into 18 soundscapes, forming a sound walk located in Princes Park, Liverpool so that the work can be accessed by the public in a safe way.

A woman walks down the street late at night. Overhearing a mummer about a murder, the panic sets in!

Audio-Cartographic Experiments Vol#1: Rise & Fall is Kit Monteith's debut solo album, released in January 2021. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, it’s 23 tracks blending continuously to unfurl the story of a unique journey around the world. Monteith performs as a percussionist with the band Foals and he composed and recorded this album during their 2019 world tour. In each of the cities the band performed he would make field recordings of the spaces and streets they visited, whilst on each flight composing musical pieces on his phone. When ordered together these two elements conspire to form an Audio-Cartographic record of an extraordinary journey. A world tour with one of the biggest modern bands, sonically reimagined to capture and explain its strange blur of sensations; the aches, pains, loneliness & exhilaration of endless travel along with the glimmers of truth & euphoria found hidden amongst it all. By appearing on the Echoes App, Monteith invites listeners to experience the journey afresh by taking their own walk through the album and add another layer to the Audio-Cartographic experiment. Listeners can re-order the journey themselves, take new routes around the world and experience Monteith's flight-scapes & field recordings in an order entirely dictated by their own movement through space.

Voices on the Streets is a collection of original poems and conversations about Liverpool’s places, people, culture and history. These pieces were created by local community groups as responses to research from the University of Liverpool’s English Department into topics such as migration, poetry, environment and identity. If you want to find out more about the project, or have any problems with downloading or accessing the sound journey, please visit our project webpages at https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/community/soundjourney/. This project was facilitated by Collective Encounters and produced in partnership with the University of Liverpool. https://collective-encounters.org.uk/ https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/ We would love to hear your thoughts about our sound journey! You can get in touch with us at sns@liverpool.co.uk; or send us a message on Twitter (@LivUniEnglish) or InstaGram (@livunieng)

Scary chase down some back alleys into a fight scene.

Take a walk through what could be Liverpool's most haunted quarter! Listeners are encouraged to walk around the geo fence freely and experience what our walk has to offer! Each location a small stories attached to it which allows the listener to also get a tour of the history of the Georgian Quarter. Remember to always be aware of the surrounding at all times and to listen to any audio at a recommended level! Have fun and enjoy!