LABoral offers its visitors ten “sound walks” in which -with the use of a mobile equipped with the Android operating system- they will be able to have many different experiences in the surrounding areas of the Art Centre. The majority of these works have been produced in the Spatial Narratives workshop, held in the first week of November as part of the programme at Plataforma Cero, the LABoral Production Centre.

Walking through Kadrioru Park, Spanish artist Enrique Tomás – of Escoitar.org – shows us what awaits participants in his sound tour: White Walk. Equipped with headphones and an audio guide complete with GPS, we take an acoustic journey and listen to grass grow, boughs break, the earth gurgle.

Poems and literature are gateways to other worlds, they move you to other places via the mind. noTours is inversing this. Poetry and literature will come to you, by moving yourself through the environment.

After our soundwalk in Ghent I asked the poet Geert Vermeire, active partner in the project, to describe his experience while creating and listening the geolocated poetry walk. The next lines (by Geert) condense his thoughts.

A video explainig the noTours experience. A beautiful way of saying… this is cool!

Video recorded during our workshop in Tallinn, Estonia, in January 2011.
noTours has produced a new augmented soundwalk in the context of the exhibition Gateways (opening in May 2011 at KUMU).

If you want to see the video…