Walking Festival of Sound at FYLKINGEN

On Sunday, September the 8th, the Walking Festival of Sound presents three events to take place at and around Fylkingen. All events are free.

Walking Festival of Sound is a transdisciplinary event exploring the role of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. It combines a number of free and public events including walking performances and walking seminars which take place in diverse public spaces around Stockholm. Evening events informed by walking practices take place in various event spaces (see more details in the program section). Walking Festival of Sound facilitates a meeting point for an international network of practitioners and researchers interested in sound and walking. Through diverse events we explore how walking and listening practices can augment and challenge the way we perceive, navigate through, and care for our shared environments.

More info: www.wfos.net

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Scenes / Brett Ascarelli
A workshop-seminar on creative storytelling techniques for radio
Start: 2pm

One of the things that makes a radio story or a podcast memorable are scenes - when you hear something that's actually happening on tape, rather than being re-told after the fact. Some radio producers tell stories about themselves, doing so by embarking on quests or missions of some sort, a set up which allows them to tape drama as it unfolds around them in real time. In this workshop, participants will listen to some scenes, and then, turn an ordinary walk into an opportunity for collecting recordings of scenes. Come prepared to interact with people you don't know yet.

Brett Ascarelli has worked as a public service radio producer for nearly a decade at Swedish Radio. She also produces independent audio documentaries, which have been nominated and short-listed for awards. In her independent projects, Brett is particularly interested in bringing artistic methods to storytelling. For example, her podcast The Assignment Bureau concerns people who face challenges in their lives through creative assignments. She holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Performing Arts and Media from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. She also holds an M.F.A. in Experience Design from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, in Stockholm, and she did her Bachelor's at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina.

Book your free ticket here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scenes-brett-ascarelli-tickets-69700017629

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Aeolian Ðàn Tranh / Nguyễn Thanh Thủy

For the Walking Festival of Sound, Nguyễn Thanh Thủy will take the audience to the top of the hill overlooking Stockholm and perform, together with the wind, using a Ðàn Tranh, a traditional Vietnamese string instrument.

Start: 6pm

Nguyễn Thanh Thủy is a leading dàn tranh player and improviser in both traditional and experimental music. She was born into a theatre family and was raised with traditional Vietnamese music from an early age in Hà Nội. She studied at the Hanoi Conservatory of Music. She has received many distinctions included the First Prize and the Outstanding Traditional Music Performer Prize in the National Competition of Zither Talents in 1998. Nguyễn Thanh Thủy has recorded several CDs as soloist with orchestra and solo CDs which released by Phuong Nam Film Vietnam; by dB Productions Sweden; by Setola di Maiale Italia and by NEUMA Records & Publications USA. She collaborates with the composers such as Richard Karpen (US), Kent Olofsson (SE), Nguyen Thien Dao (FR/VN) and Kim Ngoc Tran Thi (VN). The last five years she has been collaborating extensively with choreographers, composers and theatre directors on many interdisciplinary projects. Since 2012 she is carrying out an artistic doctoral project at the Malmö Academy of Music concerned with gesture in traditional Vietnamese music.

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Landvätter - Portal #1 ... a performative cut up rite / Geraldine Hudson

Start: 7:30pm
Bring warm and suitable clothing as you'll be lying on rugged ground as part of this piece.

Portal #1 being the first in an intermittent series of small site specific acts. In this interactive performance piece participants are invited to join in an urban sacred space, where Geraldine Hudson will attempt to combine two heterotopic sites, one urban and profane in Stockholm, one rural and sacred in England. By using the method of the cut up, manifested as a physical happening, the site is transformed into a hierophany (sacred place). Here the participants will be facilitated to take part in the sensory experience of the place as they become part of the rite as it unfolds. During the act Hudson shall invoke and bless the Landvätter (spirits of place) in unison with sonic recordings from an ancient site in England. In splicing the two places together she will attempt to create a phenomenological cut up - in doing so opening a portal, and facilitating the possibility of subconscious time travel whilst hoping to encourage an open discourse around humans relationship to the land and the possibility of psychological reaquaintence as a form of resistance.

Geraldine Hudson is a interdisciplinary British artist/curator and experiential researcher based in Stockholm. Within her own practice she is participating specifically at the intersections of site, myth, psychological topographies, otherness and the liminal experience of the magical body - working with installation, printmaking/artists books, analogue photography, performance ritual and sound. Using a site specific methodology, whether drifting or purposefully visiting/revisiting certain spaces, where she attempts to explore notions of heterotopia and hierophany, examining the topography of myth, how the inherently primaeval bodily connection with the land relates to the veiled state, in communion with other archetypes. By considering the sacred and profane in urban and rural environments she is interested in how we as humans can reconnect with our organic environment and tentatively deconstruct the dualism of the anthropocene, With an interest in weaving together the oft called 'pseudo' scientific elements of the esoteric world to somehow build another language of being, to expand on the mystical and if possible achieve some manifestation of gnosis ... through our kinship to the chthonic world, other animals and our shared habitat.

The Walking Festival of Sound is funded by the Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice. Coorganizing partner: Fragmentarium Club

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Medlemsproduktion: Jacek Smolicki