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PLACE-BASED AUDIO
So much more than you can see

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Landscape is more than meets the eye:
It's also the layers of human experience that have accumulated there: the character of a place.

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It may look like just a rock.  But...

​​Some layers of human memory may call it Windsor Rock, with the local story of a sailing captain (named Windsor) who holed his schooner on it while tacking into port nearly a century ago.

Other layers will call it Chain Rock, with a story of torpedoes exploding against a submarine net stretched across the Narrows in World War Two.

Still others may tell you it's where an episode of Republic of Doyle filmed the story of a fictional drug bust in 2014,  Or even where leprechauns once hid their money.

Exploring a place with place-based locative audio is like having someone whispering in your ear.  So while your eyes find laneways and houses - and rocks - your ears are finding the inside stories.  Unique stories. Unique voices. Unique information.

We think of locative audio as a kind of "landscape documentary": opening a door to the hidden histories and implications of place.

We've created place-based projects in cooperation with heritage and community groups, using both traditional mobile telephony and interactive smartphone apps.  We've also collaborated with local authors to place interactive fiction in a landscape.

​Check out some of these:


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  • LOCATIVE
    • LANDSCAPE DOCUMENTARY
    • LANDSCAPE FICTION
    • LANDSCAPE NARRATIVE
    • LANDSCAPE JOURNALISM
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  • Contact
  • NEWS
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