IDM Class 1 - Sound Swap

The soundwalk is an IDM collaborative class project introducing students to geolocative audio.

"OUR WAY, ROUTE 2021" is a MFA thesis exhibition by John Joe (Irish + Dine'). The exhibition features a soundwalk project that offers a 2021 route to be held by the land, honoring our way of life, family, traditions, tribal community, and ancestors. The route is Joe's journey traveling from his family home in Naschitti, NM, to Hweeldi-Fort Sumner, NM. The Fort Sumner site holds a painful past for Dine' people, which still resonates today. The Dine' people were marched from their homes, and these collective routes are known as the Long Walk. "Our Way" is a personal route navigating cultural ways of being and honoring protocols while speaking to the resilience and strength of our past and present through the humble act of walking and listening. The 2021 route is a reinscription offering a current memory to be held by the land and aims to activate Indigenous perspectives and dialogue about connecting to the Land and Place using the body, digital technology, audio mapping, and locative media.

Dikos Ntsaaigii 19---Covid 19 composition. The sound composition is selected sound recordings of my living space using image to sound, zoom, and PD recordings. The piece is part of a series that investigates digital space(s), issues of removal and resilience, self-quarantine during the COVID 19 Pandemic. Dikos Ntsaaigii19.

Testing Geolocated sound walk

Echoes of Place is an experimental sound walk that listens to the histories circulating around the ASU MIX Center and treats the surrounding blocks as a spatial archive of memory. As visitors move, they activate sonic traces of the many worlds that have shaped this area: the flowing irrigation networks of the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) peoples; the agricultural presence and church-centered community built by the The early Mormon settlers of Mesa; the massive WWII hangar relocated here after the war to host the Maricopa County Fair; and the midcentury hum of El Portal hotel alive with a lively bar, over 55 rooms that hosted Spring Training guests including players from the Chicago Cubs. The MIX Center becomes the newest layer in this evolving constellation, adding the contemporary frequencies of film, game, and media creation. Through sound, Echoes of Place lets listeners drift through overlapping eras, experiencing downtown Mesa as a living field of memory where past and present resonate together in space. Thank you to Dr. Kristy H.A. Kang, Sven Ortel, Dr. Jamie Kirtz, Shaney Blackburn-Aguirre, Victor Linoff, David Crummey, and the Mesa Room @ Mesa Library.

The sound walk project explores Indigenous mapping of place through embodied walking, memory, and digital documentation. Site-specific to the former Phoenix Indian School (now Steel Indian School Park), it uses binaural recordings, photography, video, and GPS mapping to preserve a digital memory of daily walks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to activate Indigenous perspectives and dialogue about land, place, and connection through sound and locative media.

Ideaporium presents a highly abridged version of Shakespeare's Macbeth. As you walk counterclockwise around the Historic Y, beginning on the north side along University blvd., you'll experience the three witch scenes from the play, culminating with Act 4 Scene 1 as you enter the parking lot. We invite you to perform your own personal ritual during this journey. The roles of the witches were performed by Jenna Meadows, Lotus Rogers, and Marina Byrne, under the direction of Brent T. Gibbs, who also edited the text. Matt Marcus- Producer/ Sound Designer Kevin Black- Associate Producer Geneva Foster-Gluck- Associate Producer/ Visual Designer Rachel Rios- Visual Designer Mandy Spartz- Production Manager/ Director of Communications