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Audio Walks

Discover the world with your ears – Audio walks

Every tile hides a story, histories hide behind every facade. Soundtrackcity’s audio tours bring them to life. A team of artists, filmmakers, musicians and playwrights stimulate the imagination with audio walks through Amsterdam, Hoorn, Leiden, The Hague, Vlieland, Rotterdam and Brussels that can be downloaded for free.

Audio
Walks

Discover the city with your ears – Audio Walks

Every tile hides a story, histories hide behind every facade. Soundtrackcity’s audio tours bring them to life. A team of artists, filmmakers, musicians and playwrights stimulate the imagination with audio walks through Amsterdam, Hoorn, Leiden, The Hague, Vlieland, Rotterdam and Brussels that can be downloaded for free.

Slowdown Amsterdam

Are you ready to listen to the city of Amsterdam in a completely new way?
Soundwalk, English.
4 km, ± 43 min. Amsterdam.
Free
Are you ready to listen to the city of Amsterdam in a completely new way?
Lees verder

Secrets of the Canals

Walk along stories that sing around the canals of Amsterdam.
Soundwalk, English.
5 km, ± 93 min. Amsterdam.
Free
This unique walk takes you on an 93 minute journey through past, present and future of the world famous piece of Amsterdam (UNESCO world heritage list) that is the Grachtengordel.
Lees verder

Ticket to Istanbul (EN)

By IJ ferry to the other side of the Bosphorus.
Soundwalk, English.
5 km, ± 57 min. Amsterdam.
Free
In Amsterdam, thousands of people take the ferry across the River IJ every day. Simultaneously, citizens in Istanbul aboard one of the many ferries across the Bosphorus.
Lees verder

Of steel and water, the city tunes itself

Unheard sounds from the city. Interior resonance of things old and new.
Soundwalk, only sound.
4 km, ± 50 min. Rotterdam.
Free
The soundwalk of Lee Patterson uses sounds from the city, usually unheard. Not the vibrations that bounce off countless new surfaces, but the interior resonance of things old and new.
Lees verder

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Recorded sound environments composed into non-representational virtual aural micro-worlds.
Soundwalk, only sound.
3 km, ± 55 min Rotterdam.
Free
This soundwalk is a transmutation of the normal “reality” of five different locations into an unreal parallel sonic world. This sonic world has been solely created from that original everyday “reality”.
Lees verder

2,2 Kilometers

A sonic history of the notorious Nieuwe Binnenweg in Rotterdam.
Soundwalk, English.
2,2 km ± 35 minutes. Rotterdam.
Free
This soundwalk consists of recordings from the Nieuwe Binnenweg and other parts of the city, as proposing a soundscape exchange. The piece is also concerned with a sound historical memory of the street.
Lees verder

Walk / Listen / Download
our walks with Tracks, Our new app specially
developed for audiowalks

Tracks is an initiative of:

Soundtrackcity Jubilee
Beursschouwburg
BNA-BBOT
Overtoon
Q-O2

www.tracksaudiowalks.org

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