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With TRACKS, discover a variety of sound artists and the walks they create – seamlessly with your smartphone. Search by keyword to find your ideal walk, orient yourself on the interactive map, and share your experience with a community of audio walkers.

Offering a growing collection of audio walks and a host of features, TRACKS connects anyone with a smartphone to the work of sound artists and musicians to discover in the most immediate way possible.

Audio walks offer stories, music, sound experiments, and all kinds of other sensory information that artists and musicians compose for you. Sight, scent, and feeling are present, but sounds take the lead. This modulates one’s usual sense of body and consciousness, promoting a new understanding of the environment. With every step, hear the artist play with sound, experiment with composition, and lead you to new perceptions. Think of a film, where sound and image are strongly linked and controlled by the artist. In audio walks, the ‘point of view’ becomes the ‘point of hearing.’

In summer 2020, Michiel Huijsman from Soundtrackcity and Justin Bennett from Jubilee initiated a collaboration, which led to idea of an application that unites the audio walks produced by art organisations in Belgium and The Netherlands. The result is TRACKS – an app for audiowalks.