At Port’s End - a soundwalk on april 29th

Meris led this soundwalk on a beautiful and windy afternoon, and Kristen recorded it, so an excerpt might show up eventually.



The walk started at a large neighborhood park in a residential area, and from there it went along quiet streets and onto more industrial sounding area - trains tracks, large storage facilities. A few purring motorcycles came to park as we approached... staged by the soundwalk leader?





The stroll's first highlight was the performance of a choir inside a tunnel! Exploring the acoustic properties of the reverberant space with a wide range of utterances and melodic lines, the soundwalk leader also joined the group that she had obviously planned on being there for us!











The open space of New Brighton park awaited us on the other side of the tunnel, and as we approach the caretaker's house we were greeted by the lawnmower sustained tone, the smell of cut grass and the music from an "oldies" radio show he was listening to, but the choir's voices could still be heard, as they shouted and screeeeeamed.

After a moment of stillness in the open field, where the sparse sounds of machinery would puntuate the distant ambiance, the group started walking again, going through another tunnel under train tracks, when a train came to a stop as the group entered(great timing!).

Another tunnel under the highway led us to approach the horse racing track and pacific National Exhibit's Fair ground.
(to be cont.)