Sound walks have a history. In the 1970s R. Murray Schafer’s World Soundscape Project and Hildegard Westerkamp’s soundwalking asked people to walk through a place and listen to it closely. Psychogeography, from Guy Debord and the Situationists, asks how a city’s physical layout shapes the way people move through it and feel in it. Both start from the part of a city you can see and hear from the street.

Hidden Infrastructures Zürich is a sound walk for the part you can’t. It turns six layers of infrastructure under the streets of Zürich’s old town into sound: tram power, water, sewage, the electricity grid, telecoms and district heating. The positions come from the City of Zürich’s open data. The sound is generated live, with no recordings. The app works out your position and the direction you are facing, so the closer you are to a system, the louder it gets, and each sound comes from the direction of its source.

I’m testing it before its public launch and I’d like to hear how it worked for you and what it was like to walk with it.

You don’t need to be in Zürich. In the city, you can walk with it in real time. Anywhere else, a button in the app starts a simulated walk around downtown Zürich.

What you’d do: open the app on your phone or computer, try two short tasks (start a walk, use the faders), explore it freely, then answer a form. The form takes under 10 minutes.

Listening: headphones or your device’s speaker both work. It’s designed for bone conduction headphones, or earbuds with listen-through switched on, so the sounds sit alongside the real sounds of the street.

Privacy: your location is processed on your device and not sent anywhere. There are no accounts and no analytics. The form doesn’t ask for your name, email or location, and the accessibility questions are optional.

I want honest feedback, including what didn’t work.

Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1veaIewfXGwKjtGazExztnAa0bLdoW3hrvpLL4gpK5Bs/viewform

I am a painter and hand embroidery artist and started a patreon where I share some of the stories behind my work. For the month of October, I'm talking about Kenneth Anger, how Victorian architecture and how it lends itself to ritual, psychogeography, folklore, synchronicities, the Westerfeld house in SF, CA. I'm also sharing a playlist for October. patreon.com/longroadhome and longroadhomearchive on IG <3

This is my first write up of my new project "Walking to Gigs" - let me know what you think. Essentially, I walk to music gigs in London and write about the full experience. All walks begin at the same point – the centre of Crystal Palace Park in London. I draw a perfectly straight line between the starting point and the destination, then craft a walking route that stays as true as possible to that line. This hyper-direct method has a habit of taking me off the beaten track into residential streets, industrial estates, odd footpaths, and generally places I would never otherwise pass through. I research things that I encounter on the journey via lengthy internet rabbit holes. I also stop at pubs that happen to fall on the route, because one must rest and refuel.

A critical photo essay exploring skateboarding, hostile architecture, and the neoliberal transformation of urban space in Cardiff.

A short blog post in which I propose a third-wave definition of psychogeography, to usher the discipline into the twenty-twenties

Hi, new to group, and glad it exists. I became aware of psychogeography last year and was making plans to use the concepts in a short film shot in my host city of Bangkok, Thailand. The large urban space is dense with human activity, and I often sit and watch the human flow.
I decided to film some yesterday and thought I'd share it here if the admins permit.
Bangkok Psychogeography Volume One - The Watchman by The Bangkok Flaneur

There isclna series of posts on NW London's Metroland on my blog www.oildrumlane.co.uk ranging from the history of the ghost county of Middlesex to thr origins of London's bricks and the design of the ubiquitous semi-detached houses. Also Willesden's oilfield and Wembley's Eiffel Tower.

https://www.oildrumlane.co.uk/2022/06/on-pyschogeography-without-enthusiasm.html?m=1

Lifted Illuminations - An Introduction

Sharing my trip:

First time exploring Newton Surrey. Though I wish I was able to explore more shops around there, Surrey has a reputation of crimes and gun violence so I mostly stayed near this area of shops and made a little sketch during my time there.

I really like Surrey, it's really good for urban dérives in Canada (near Vancouver) as it has so many parks and places to see - I've been there a couple of times now, I just wish it would be safer there.

Overall, fun trip.

I hope Surrey would be safe and would make me feel safe on the streets... Maybe sometime in the future

Still my favorite city despite the crime rates. It's absolutely beautiful there - the museums, art exhibitions, festivals, malls, restaurants - it has hit me in every emotion way possible. I can never forget the good times I've had over there.

As of this post (Nov 2): https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/staple-found-in-halloween-candy-surrey-police-investigating/#:~:text=Police%20in%20Surrey%20issued%20a,neighbourhood%2C%20which%20was%20reported%20Saturday.

And just 3 weeks ago: https://globalnews.ca/video/11475757/woman-critically-injured-in-surrey-shooting/

I love Surrey. Never had any bad experiences there.

I have been looking into Korea because it's small and urban dense and it seems like the perfect ground for urban psychogeography.

I don't see a lot of discussions around psychogeography in Korea especially an on foot expedition going from NW corner near Incheon to SE corner near Busan. Is it plausible? It does sound easy on paper with convince stores everywhere and places you can rest and you can get all your biological needs taken care of.

I am aiming to walk 50 km per day and finish within 2 weeks (might even make it a round trip and say I walked the distance of the entire peninsula if I'm feeling physically ok)

Is Korea safe? Are whole foods cheap over there? Are the roads safe especially for pedestrians?

Are there any better places to do this?

Strange little essay on accidently finding info, psychogeography, related stuff, in a spooky library. 📜 First part is dry, but the 'denoument / ghost tour' toward the end kicks it up a bit. https://doi.org/10.3998/weave.12535642.0003.104

Been into psychogeography for a while now on a personal level, and I've read the literature to an extent, but overall I'm much more into getting out and playing with different modes of exploration and observation. And it's something I've shared with others now and then, when people are game for it. I'd like to know, though, how you might go about it.

So let's say you were tasked with introducing someone to how psychogeography actually functions out in the world. You've got a major city at your disposal. What do you do? What's your approach?

You can introduce key ideas, of course, but for our purposes here the emphasis would be on what you can actually do with these things out in the field.

Thanks

Hello. I made a tool for my psychogeography project The Night Vision Process. It creates a local evolving map with memory that is unique to the user.

Have a play around. Hope it’s ok to post here.

Dear Readers I want your thoughts on what makes a weird literature fascinating ?

I wrote something about Alfred Jarry's book The Supermale :

Heart That Is Placed Neither On Left Nor On Right

Methridatism towards habits and rituals of Biology .

The chef under the guise of a doctor presented some fabulously crafted parodic logic ready to cook your braincells.

A tired human being paralyzed by the rotational shifts of breathing and eating , have limitless potential .

THE PERPETUAL FUEL humbles down overdosage of digits and calculations. ;

The above thoughts on the book were marked as slop by readers , it really makes me curious--what is the perfect definition of organic thought and originality of thoughts ; what makes a thought weird enough or poetic enough , I am curious to understand that does thinking needs to be structured like what everyone have experienced or read ?

A Field Guide.

The Seven Mouths of Melbourne are terrestrial antennae in a city-wide constellation that echoes outward, linking to what some theorists call The Interstellar Grid.

The Theory:

These interstellar ley lines are:

Informational channels spanning planets, moons, and psychic satellites.

Ancient architectures of meaning, written into soil and civic planning by accident or design.

Triggered by ritual interaction, not just presence.

They are resonant nodal points — temporary access sites on a multi-dimensional map.

The Implication:

If you walk the Seven Mouths — alone, in sequence, during a planetary conjunction — you might become attuned to something that listens back.