Wonderful to be part of the new Research in Drama Education (RiDE) themed issue, titled ‘Walking as Applied Practices: Methodologies, Pedagogies, and Performances‘ and edited by Dee Heddon, Stephanie Springgay and Harry Wilson. The issue focuses on ‘walking as a mobile, situated and relational method of applied critical practice’. It brings together 20 articles, practitioner accounts, multimedia pieces, a photo essay, video essay and my own sound essay (see abstract below). This piece reflects on Peel Park Shimmering – a geo-located sound walk I created in 2023.
Abstract: This sound essay is both a reflection on and a remix of materials I created to generate a sound walk called ‘Peel Park Shimmering’ in 2023. The walk guides participants through Peel Park in Salford, UK, using geo-located sound. In the sound essay, I reveal how the creative methods I developed to form the walk arise from both the living elements of the park and reading in paleoecology and multispecies studies. In the essay, these methods are given creative form in sound and text, weaving through passages of explanation, so that making and thinking are intertwined.
You can get access to free e-prints of the article here and there is a direct link to the sound file on SoundCloud below:
Jo Scott: artist-researcher 