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is a soundwalking project based on listening in motion and on the perception of priorities: what emerges as more important, more urgent, or more necessary is highlighted through the modulation of sound.

Participants walk while wearing headphones, and the listening experience is managed in real time through a system specifically designed for this project. The central device is a microphone stand connected to the movement of the pelvis, on which a modular synthesizer is mounted, allowing direct intervention on environmental sounds.

Along the route, participants can hear both “clean” sound, without manipulation, and “artefacted” sound: not artificial in the sense of being fake, but emotionally amplified. The sound always remains analog and natural, yet it can be transformed to enhance its character, strength, fragility, or dramatic quality.

Based on a preliminary site survey, themes, critical issues, and necessities are identified—elements that concern not only the individual experience, but also the broader context, whether natural or urban, in which the action takes place. Certain sounds are therefore enlarged, made more majestic, destabilizing, or melancholic, in order to stimulate a deeper relationship with the soundscape.

The activity begins with a moment of gathering and with exercises for activating the sound apparatus, designed to help participants focus on listening.

The experience concludes with a restitution phase: an emotional mapping of the walk and of listening in motion. Participants are invited to identify strategic points along the route and to reflect on whether they perceived moments of greater emotional intensity, assigning them value and meaning.

This final mapping becomes a tool for evaluating the experience, helping to understand whether the process has generated awareness, resonance, and a sense of purpose.