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.

MANTIS first ever Audioguide Tour in Collaboration with noTours and Escoitar.org!
A project supported by CITIES@MANCHESTER and the MANTIS Festival at University of Manchester.
more details: http://mantisfestival.com/

This year´s Manchester Mantis Festival was dedicated to the concept of  ‘Sonic Meta-­‐ontology‘, encapsulating a number or newly created compositions, sonic events, plus binaural and ambisonics field-­‐recording trip
compositions across the City of Manchester and the North West of England. ‘Manchester’s Sonic Meta-­‐ontology‘ explores whether there is really such thing as a ‘Manchester sound’ and if so, what is it, can we experience it, and can …

NoTours proposes a strategy for assessing the complexity of a territory, for understanding how much sound informs us about a place, and for elaborating new ways of perceiving knowledge and expression through our ears.

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.