New Soundwalks bring to life the aural environments of early-morning Seawall and False Creek Flats

Vancouver New Music and the Vancouver Soundwalk Society launch new routes May 23 and 30, respectively

SPONSORED POST BY Vancouver New Music

A view to Gushing at the Wrong Evergreen, a Soundwalk mapped out in False Creek Flats.

Vancouver New Music and the Vancouver Soundwalk Collective offer two free self-guided Soundwalks this spring. One launches along the Seawall on May 23 and the other starts along the False Creek Flats on May 30. 

The routes are created by members of the Vancouver Soundwalk Collective—curated listening tours that take advantage of a location’s unique ambiance and underlying rhythms. Participants follow a mapped route at their own pace, and are invited to actively listen to their surroundings—opening ears and consciousness to the complex orchestration that the environment is composing at all times. 

Seawall Sounds – Seven at Seven, created by Jamie Dolinko and launching May 23 at 7 am, will stop at seven specific, mapped locations along the Seawall in Stanley Park, exploring sounds, both natural and man-made, not normally heard during busier public hours. The sound of the park waking up is a unique experience, and despite common locations and best laid plans, every soundwalker will hear something different. 

On May 30, Gushing at the Wrong Evergreen, created by Jorma Kujala, becomes available to the public.

The Soundwalk extends the historical, cultural and socioeconomic exploration begun with False; Flat; Fake – a soundwalk, offered in September 2020. Gushing at the Wrong Evergreen moves northward from Olympic Village in a map-directed, self-paced “digital soundwalk” that further explores the fringes of the False Creek Flats. It exposes development pressures laid upon ongoing social, cultural, economic, colonia,l and political forces that both build and bury the land, lives, and histories embedded into this coveted terrain. Among the themes it investigates is the resulting detritus when subjective particulate matter collides with human wills, minds, and emotions.

The Vancouver Soundwalk Collective is a community of listeners that explores acoustic locales in and around Vancouver, while Vancouver New Music engages communities in the exploration, creation, and experience of progressive and outstanding new music, with an emphasis on Canadian composers.

This post was sponsored by Vancouver New Music.