A Sound Map Of Harrogate

About A Sound Map Of Harrogate

Every episode in this series starts the same way. I walk out with a recorder and no fixed plan, and let the town decide the route. That is close to what the Situationists called the dérive: instead of choosing where to go, you let the place choose for you. Flâneurs used to walk a city to see it properly. Sound Map of Harrogate does the same with a microphone, working through the town one place at a time. Some of these recordings come from streets everyone in Harrogate already knows. Others come from corners most people walk past without a second look. Either way, the point is the same: to hear the town rather than move through it. It shares the aim behind everything else The Stray Walkers do: becoming a stranger in your own town again. This is part of an ongoing project called The Stray Walkers, a Harrogate based not-for-profit collective of artists, activists and urban wanderers interested in psychogeography, public space and the hidden stories of the city. Find out more at www.thestraywalkers.org (https://www.thestraywalkers.org/). Best listened to on good quality headphones, this podcast used to be called 'A Sound Map Of Harrogate.'

Publisher

The Stray Walkers

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Feb 2026

Latest episode

20 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

37 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Sept 2026

   A Walk Around Christchurch, Harrogate

   Every episode in this series starts the same way. I walk out with a recorder and no fixed plan, and let the town decide the route. That is close to what the Situationists called the dérive: instead of choosing where to go, you let the place choose for you. Flâneurs used to walk a city to see it properly. The Harrogate Sound Survey does the same with a microphone, working through the town one place at a time. Some of these recordings come from streets everyone in Harrogate already knows. Oth...

2. 

   19 Sept 2026

   Wet Railings Recorded Using a Geophone

   This episode is a tree dripping water from an earlier shower on to metal railings. It was recorded through a LOM Geofón Geophone. Every episode in this series starts the same way. I walk out with a recorder and no fixed plan, and let the town decide the route. That is close to what the Situationists called the dérive: instead of choosing where to go, you let the place choose for you. Flâneurs used to walk a city to see it properly. The Harrogate Sound Survey does the same with a microphone, w...

3. 

   13 Sept 2026

   Residential Basement Carpark - Dawn, Sunday

   Every episode in this series starts the same way. I walk out with a recorder and no fixed plan, and let the town decide the route. That is close to what the Situationists called the dérive: instead of choosing where to go, you let the place choose for you. Flâneurs used to walk a city to see it properly. Sound Map of Harrogate does the same with a microphone, working through the town one place at a time. Some of these recordings come from streets everyone in Harrogate already knows. Others co...

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