score for here

TTake a stroll and let your desired path determine your wayfinding and sonic experience of the site.

Score for Here is a platform for site-specific sonic experiences composed through geolocation. The project invites visitors to experience soundscapes in real time as they navigate the site. The experience is streamed on the visitor’s mobile connection and it can be enjoyed with a pair of headphones.

Some soundwalks use modified field recordings and samples remixed through a custom geolocative app that functions as an aleatory compositional principle. In this case the app allows each visitor to compose sound in real time determined by the choreography of their navigation choice. With other soundwalks, you will be able to listen to complete sound compositions assigned to each zone.

The project is inspired both by the asymmetric dispute of contested boundaries and cartographies, and what is known in urban planning and landscape architecture as “desire paths.” Considering geolocative software is traditionally designed to guide and direct, Score for Here repurposes it as an aleatory compositional principle that inspires divergence.

The app will remain available on-site indefinitely and will change overtime while the sound database continues to grow. Rather than a seamless, finished artwork for consumption, the work is a morphing proposition, a catalyst for speculation and potential transformation.

Guidelines and suggestions:

-Find yourself at the soundwalk location. You can start your experience anywhere within the soundwalk boundaries.

-You will have to physically be at the soundwalk site to listen.

-After you've started the experience, you can see your current position as the blue dot. Entering a sound zone on the map will trigger that sound, and the zone will highlight on the map.

-Tapping on a zone on the map will bring up more info.

-To best experience Score for Here, put your phone in your pocket for a more immersive listening experience.

For more information visit:
https://scoreforhere.com/
For feedback or suggestions, or to share your experience please drop us a line:
hello@scoreforhere.com