As the mouth speaks (2026), geolocated soundwalk at Biidaasige Park hosted by Echoes.xyz.
As the mouth speaks tends to relations-in-process during the revitalization of former marshland today known as Biidaasige Park on Ookwemin Minising. Complicating colonial conceptualizations of Land as ‘resource’ and ‘sink’ that move through the past, present and future, this soundwalk weaves together histories, notes from the field and field recordings to compose a sonic collage. Presented through a singular voice recorded on site the soundwalk embraces the glitchy and disruptive interruptions from the field—such as wind and construction noise—to expose the performativity of listening and recording which are not universal, neutral or objective acts.
Geolocated ‘echoes’ overlap, tangling temporalities to disrupt a singular linear narrative of how the artificial island Ookwemin Minising came to be. The soundwalk conjures multiple temporalities of the park as marsh, infilled industrial site, dump, revitalized public space and its possible futures. Listeners are invited to oscillate between knowing to unknowing—what they are hearing, understanding and experiencing—to think critically about the spatial politics of urban change. Without a defined beginning or end As the mouth speaks invites multiple and differing approaches to listening in/to place.
Remembering like water (2024), soundwalk through the Academic Quadrangle, SFU Burnaby.
This short soundwalk, composed of field recordings, attends to water’s memory. Thinking against colonial and institutional architectures the soundwalk encourages attentive listening and walking in order to navigate the complex dimensions of the shared University environment.
This soundwalk was composed in residency during the Amplify Network’s ‘Podcasting School’. Special thanks to Hannah McGregor, Stacey Copeland and Milena Droumeva for their support of this project.
Three scores for a meeting point (2026). Portable and foldable text-based soundwalk.
This three-part soundwalk can be experienced any place two or more ecologies meet. Handheld and portable the text-based score invites an attentive and unsettled listening practice to emerge.