Sound walk in the neighbourhood of the Silk Village Vạn Phúc, Hanoi
This sound walk explores the traditional silk village – Van Phuc, from the small alleys where there are still some family-run silk production with the sound of silk-weaving machines to one of the biggest flea market of Hanoi, to the new area with copy-paste style of housing, to the tree-covered thousand-year-old temple. The participants are equipped only with their own ears without any extra electronic appliances. The aim of this sound walk is to awaken our senses which we already have, to take in the surrounding environment to the fullest extent. At the tea-break, each participant was given a postcard to write down their thoughts and impressions. These postcards would then be sent to another participant of the sound walk who was chosen randomly. The recipient did not know which postcard she/he would receive and whether this postcard would arrive at all as everyone knows how notorious the post service in Vietnam is.
Participants and their own postcards
Sound walk – “Hear Here” sound walk series, Stockholm, Sweden 2018
This sound walk was part of a series of sound walk organized by Casey Moir in Stockholm. In these sound walks, people simply go side by side each other in silence and listen to the surroundings. The sound walk with Siedl/Cao was comprised of 2 sound interventions. The first one was with a self-built synthesizer that makes different pitches according to the conductivity of the found natural objects, may it be a nutshell, a branch, a leaf, etc. The second one was a silent but intense performance.
Sound walk in Dadaocheng area, during the TTTIFA Residency in Taipei 2019
This sound walk was a collaboration with the pupils of Taiping Elementary School from Dadaocheng area of Taipei. With contact microphone, magnetic pickup and headsets, Siedl/Cao lead the group of pupils through their familiar neighbourhood, hearing the sound of the magnetic field in expected corners, exploring how contact microphone can reveal the texture of a surface, listening to the given sonic landscape using objects that changes the way we hear, which ultimately makes ones realizes it is not to be taken for granted how we can hear and perceive the world.
Siedl/Cao 