Soundwalk for Zine: Press Play
How To Hear Ghosts was the product of a 4th year course assignment: to produce a Zine explaining the everyday city of Edinburgh. An open ended task, I decided to hand draw my small A3 8-page zine by following an audio field recording of Edinburgh’s Haymarket area in the West of the city. The zine is an attempt to give voice to lost stories of the city. It suggests lives of those now physically gone are enmeshed with and haunt the everyday spaces of our living. It is an introduction to making geography radical, sonic and accessible. By reading through the zine, one is able to choose where they go, in a multiple narrative style format and allows, in theory, users to experience the multiple and non-linearity of urban life through sound.
References/ Key Sources for How To Hear Ghosts
See work by Johnathan Prior for more information and projects on sonic geographies and radical change in the discipline.
References
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