Poetry Noise Choir

In this walk along the borders of Detroit and Hamtramck, from interviews gathered at this library, you will hear people recollect dreams, share stories of those who have passed, and offer images of their changing neighborhood.

There are seven sites placed around the Googleplex. Each is a space where we can offer our body as a living sacrifice to God.

A meditation on the ways that trees speak.

A story by Arise Rock following Jamaal through Piety Hill. One half of the Vacant Lots Project.Music by Kale Bowdre.

Half of the Vacant Lots Story.

Acts of Urbanism

The collection of soundmaps at this location are designed to lead you through awareness exercises around a small looped path on Belle Isle. These exercises focus on listening, seeing, touching, moving, speaking, voicing, and reading. The time it takes to complete each loop depends on your pace, but is usually around 15-20 minutes. there are different ways to mix and match these exercises. And to make that process easier we use the metaphor of music and describe these walks in terms of notes, chords, scales, and modes. (more on that later) Like music we hope that with a little bit of intention, these walks will help you experience a deeper resonance between your senses, the world, and God. Peace to you. Here's the musical vocabulary: - Each sense mode (like sight or hearing) is a note. That's the basic building block. - Each walk is a loop. - Loops are named after whatever note they are focusing on (Audio loop, Visio loop) - Each loop has different prompts that flow together like a yoga sequence. - Each loop will be available as a map in echoes.xyz app - To keep your hands free while walking, you can listen to the prompts recording on your phone in your pocket or on headphones. - You can experience one loop a day, or if you're feeling saucy, you can walk the loop multiple times and choose a different note map for each pass (Audio, Visio, and Motus, etc.) - Once you've gotten comfortable with each of the single note loops, you can choose note maps that begin to mix the notes together so that one loop contains multiple sense awareness prompts (multiple notes). - We call engaging multiple notes at the same time harmony. - Loops that focus on two senses are called two-part harmony loops. - Loops that focus on three senses are called three-part harmony loops. - The name "modes" refers to the ability to reorder any of the sequences in a loop. For example, one day, a walk can begin with a vision note, add an audio note, and then end with a movement note. And the next day, you can use those same notes but begin your walk with the movement note and then gradually incorporate the other two. Each of these modes will produce a different flavor of experience. - Each note, scale, and mode will be available as a note map in the echoes app.

Welcome to "Everything You Touch," a soundmap at the Diag by Billy Mark. A soundmap is audio art that uses gps technology to allow the direction of your walking to triggger sounds. Wherever you go on the grass surrounding the Diag, you will play different voices, rhythms, and chords. This piece responds to the Octavia Butler quote, "Everything you touch, you change, everything you change, changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change". The voices you hear are students lying in the grass, breathing and allowing a stream of consciousness to flow for 20 minutes. Although you have to walk to different areas to hear the different voices, all of the 20-minute voice sessions trigger simultaneously, so they will end around the same time. Feel free to walk through them as you'd like. After the 20-minute voice sessions have ceased, you can walk through the map's music by itself. If you'd like to listen to just one voice all the way through, restart the walk in that location and remain in that zone. And finally, since there are a lot of trees, sometimes the sensor gets wonky. If that ever happens, just restart the app, and you should be good to go. Thanks to Quinn Hunter and Shaunda Bunton for commissioning the piece. And to the entire InterArts class for sharing their beautiful voices.