Workshop: Sound Mapping in Greenwich
7 May 2026
Use your microphones to:
Tune into the depths of historical shadows and bring something invisible or latent into presence
Develop a recording method for capturing sound while moving through a site
Create a binaural walk (only one set of binaural headphones available)
Conduct an on-site interview, how can sound help to visualise what is being said/discussed
Document ecological processes
Document logistical / infrastructural processes
Document financial flows
Reveal evidence of colonial presence
Bring the remote into critical proximity
Identify and record sounds that alert the listener to inequalities
An acoustic cartography is a way of doing-mapping ‘otherwise’. A collective practice of sounding and listening to the transmissional waves, sonic seepages, and vibrational resonances of environmental matter in a state of transformation and change. It is also a way of tuning into the embodied and perceptual experiences of living communities as well as a method for exploring the deep-currents of histories and memories that flow through these spaces. Sound maps ‘sense’ conditions in space and over time. They can pulsate and radiate—moving acoustic information through the atmospheric mediums of air and the densities of water. In marine contexts they can also bounce bathymetric signals and seismic tremblings from bedrock back to the surface. Sound maps defy the cartographic conventions and logics of the ‘line’ that inscribe powerful and violent asymmetries into land; converting relational ecologies into property that can be owned and resources that can be extracted.
The practice of ‘sounding’ refers both to the taking of depth measurements in a body of water as well as the sourcing of ‘evidence’ needed in a preliminary step towards taking action. This workshop documents our collective efforts to ‘sound out’ local expressions, histories and socio-ecological relations—evidence—and attend to their urgent calls to action.
LOCATION: Greenwich https://maps.app.goo.gl/jg5DLcxjZ4oxuLcm7
The practice of ‘sounding’ refers both to the taking of depth measurements in a body of water as well as the sourcing of ‘evidence’ needed in a preliminary step towards taking action. This workshop documents our collective efforts to ‘sound out’ local expressions, histories and socio-ecological relations—evidence—and attend to their urgent calls to action.
LOCATION: Greenwich https://maps.app.goo.gl/jg5DLcxjZ4oxuLcm7