E Berkeley Street>Village Ct

1 sound

find fencing and think of all the ways to get over the fence But you don't need to., everything we need is here when i look for sweetness, it comes when the night is dark, the day comes just quickly enough Face the fence and grasp onto one bar Spread arms wide to grasp onto another part Let go of the first hand and turn to face outwards, grasp another part of the fence Measure the fencing with your body, arms and arms and arms across Maintain one hand in contact with the fence always Activate the feet like they are being pulled into the ground Pull long strands of concrete with your ankles Pull and displace the fibers with each step Remove and disperse dust, skin, plastics, scraps Find the space between all sounds Not one coming after another, but how they are responses In the continuum of noise Receive chatter, construction, collision Receive whisper, chirp, skid Receive an ensemble of cars, lights, windows


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DESIRE PATH: Sonic Walk for Boston Center for the Arts

DESIRE PATH: Sonic Walk for Boston Center for the Arts

Boston
DESIRE PATH is a sonic walk by Kelly Chen to prompt a reimagining of mobility through interactions with vibrations. This geolocated audio tour is in conversation with themes of public/private, self/other, inside/outside, image/text, and other transgressed dichotomies presented in M’Kenzy Cannon: PLEASE LET ME IN at the Boston Center for the Arts. It explores the body’s relationship with city infrastructure with choreography and gesture. The sound walk combines elements of spoken “scores” and guided listening for the streets around Boston Center for the Arts in the South End, up Tremont Street, including interactions with Berkeley Community Garden and Peter’s Park. DESIRE PATH considers how silence, noise, and mobility function as social conditions by taking part in the sounds and motions produced by organic and industrial processes of South Boston. To plier over fences, saunter across curbs, and relever from pillars to the sounds of construction, cars, fountains, stop lights, and passersby, participants interpret the public dimensions of the space. What does the infrastructure allow you to do? How does it allow you to assemble? How doesn’t it? DESIRE PATH is created on Echos, available for mobile download on the App Store, Google Play, or the web. The walk will also be transcribed and mapped as a downloadable Google Maps coordinate set for accessibility. The walk can be performed in groups, or by oneself.
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