SoundWalk turns five

‘FOG HORN’ from SOUNDWALK 2007
I was living in the East Village five years ago when SoundWalk debuted, and were it not for scattered pockets of people walking through the neighborhood—walking very strangely, almost delicately, if I remember correctly—I might never have known it was going on. The people out my window were tiptoeing [...]

FLOOD’s SoundWalk: City as Art, City as Instrument

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
A survey of the usual audio ecology of Long Beach’s East Village Arts District: traffic growls, bus hydraulics puff every 20 minutes, skateboards clatter over loose sidewalk grates, bike bells twinkle—police, fire and ambulance sirens chop through everything—somebody shuffles around on a drum set—helicopters thump [...]