Offering

This is an in-progress version of the Stanford COVID-19 Memorial Soundwalk

Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond is a geo-located audio experience. Listeners will be guided to various locations around the park, where they will gain access to quotations and excerpts of works by various writers, artists, environmentalists, and leaders. Each location's audio ("Echo") includes carefully curated content for your listening pleasure, so please pause to listen while you take in the nearby scenery.

Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond is a geo-located audio experience. Listeners will be guided to various locations around the park, where they will gain access to quotations and excerpts of works by various writers, artists, environmentalists, and leaders. Each location's audio ("Echo") includes carefully curated content for your listening pleasure, so please pause to listen while you take in the nearby scenery.

Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond is a geo-located audio experience. Listeners will be guided to various locations around the park, where they will gain access to quotations and excerpts of works by various writers, artists, environmentalists, and leaders. Each location's audio ("Echo") includes carefully curated content for your listening pleasure, so please pause to listen while you take in the nearby scenery.

Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond is a geo-located audio experience. Listeners will be guided to various locations around the park, where they will gain access to quotations and excerpts of works by various writers, artists, environmentalists, and leaders. Each location's audio ("Echo") includes carefully curated content for your listening pleasure, so please pause to listen while you take in the nearby scenery.

Walk from the Hunters Point Shipyard 'Decommissioned' exhibit, building 101, up to the overlook where you can see the whole shipyard! Listen to the voices of naval archive recordings as you walk, including marching bands, ceremonies, and the voices of men sending audio tapes home to their loved ones.

Beast Nest is an experimental artist based in Oakland, CA.

(re)collection is a series of site-specific installations by LeeAnn Perry that bring together memories of defunct and ephemeral music venues in the Bay Area, in order to reconnect participants in musical communities that have fragmented through time, to resurrect networks of musical collaboration that have lain dormant, and to invite newcomers to these communities to pay tribute to their inspirations.

Growth is a sound art experience that begins at the 1969 Ruth Asawa mosaic of the same name at 580 Capp St. It's a series of guided meditations situated in the urban landscape of the Mission. Participants are invited to slow down, listen, reflect on the past, and contemplate our collective responsibility to future generations. Proceed to each stop from west to east. This experience will take approximately 50-60 minutes. Wear comfortable shoes, use headphones, and please stay alert to traffic and other hazards while you walk. Produced by Rumi Koshino and Fereshteh Toosi as part of the Oil Ancestors project, with music by Danny Paul Grody. http://oilancestors.com/growth Rumi Koshino is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in San Francisco. Her intuitive process of making art is informed by everyday experiences as well as social, emotional, and political climates that surround it. She recently published a limited-edition art book, Solo Walks -The First 100 Days, from RITE Editions. Rumi will be a resident artist at AGA Lab in Amsterdam in 2021. She holds a BFA and MFA from the University of Washington. https://rumikoshino.com/ Fereshteh Toosi's artworks foster animistic connections through encounter, exchange, and sensory inquiry. Fereshteh lives and works in El Portal, Florida, on stolen lands still stewarded by the Miccosukee and Seminole people. Responding to place, Fereshteh designs experiences for small audiences. These intimate, immersive live art events are often produced in conjunction with small sculptures, short films, installations, scores, and poetry. http://fereshteh.net Danny Paul Grody is a solo musician and founding member of San Francisco based bands Tarentel and The Drift. He is a self taught guitarist, and the melodies at the core of Danny’s songwriting bring to mind his love of West African kora, finger-style guitar and all things minimal, repetitive & hypnotic. https://dannypaulgrody.wordpress.com