Split Walk Two field recordings were made in tandem using handheld audio recording devices. Beginning at the same point, the two participants walk in opposite directions and continue on pre-determined routes. These routes take them along a city block, around the corner, and on until they reach the spot they started (the diagram above maps such a path). The two recordings will, at the beginning and the end, be exactly the same. As they walk away, however, the recordings diverge and become totally separate. Split Walk is played back through headphones with one recording panned to the left and one to the right. As the recordings pull apart, the listener can actually feel a physical sensation of space being pulled. The city and the space in it that the listener inhabited and seems whole is torn in half and then pushed back together. |