Leo Sound Walk

A site-specific audiowalk showcasing the work by students and staff of the Digital Music & Sound Arts Course (University of Brighton). The walk is launched as part of the Brighton Digital Festival 2017. The featured works were originally composed as part of assessed course work for another medium and context. Here the students choose a specific site to locate their work within and to give it a new life and identity. Featured works: 1) Jean Martin - L-deconstruction 2) Charles Pender - Metal Rods Under the Pier 3) Mandie Brooks - La Gran Ola 4) Sonny Bacon - Remains 5)Jordan Edge - Acclimate 6) Jedd Winterburn - Transition 7) Olivia Louvel - Workshop I 8) Brianna Leeds - Terrore Impetum 9) Samirah Roye- Tweet tweet 10) Steven Mallinder - All the Fun of the Fair 11) Maria Papadomanolaki - Rewind 12) Jeph Vanger - Henosis

A demonstrator of higher order ambisonics streaming over 5G for Brighton Dome and Digital Catapult's Heritage XR programme, this walk tells the story of three moments in the history of Brighton Dome and Corn Exchange.

A demonstrator of higher order ambisonics streaming over 5G for Brighton Dome and Digital Catapult's Heritage XR programme, this walk tells the story of three moments in the history of Brighton Dome and Corn Exchange.

Created as part of the MA Digital Media Arts course at University of Brighton, this unique soundwalk captures some of the key 'soundmarks' of Brighton & Hove and places them in public spaces. Some of these field recordings are to be found at the site of their initial recording and others have been processed and collaged and then placed in locations away from the site of their capture. Either way, the listener is invited to reconsider how we listen to everyday sounds (noise) in relation to the urban landscape around us.

The piece is experienced through a journey down the Brighton Pier. The concept behind the piece centres itself around the idea of a movement into the unknown, where the sounds and the listeners surroundings do not necessarily align in a tangible way. I chose the Brighton Pier as the location for the sound walk as its structure forms a discursion from the land, which, together with the audio, symbolises a departure from our familiar surroundings. I structured the audio walk to explore this concept through the order in which my compositions are played during the walk. The further away from land the listener walks, the less familiar the compositions sound. The pieces also accumulate a sinister undertone during the walk, inducing a sense of unease which puts emphasis on the theme of unfamiliarity.

A kaleidoscopic view of this unique seaside town which evokes the past and the extraordinary everyday. A vibrant score from Ed Hughes animates daily activities and festive and historical events. Film by Lizzie Thynne. The video clips on this app are from the film Brighton: Symphony of a City. Available to view at: https://vimeo.com/193554787. DVD available to purchase at: https://divineartrecords.com/recording/symphonic-visions-new-music-for-silent-films/ All period archive footage is courtesy of Screen Archive South East, University of Brighton Brighton: Symphony of a City was commissioned by the Brighton Festival and premiered live at Brighton Dome on 11 May 2016 by the Orchestra of Sound and Light conducted by Ed Hughes.

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