9 November 2024

Soundwalk Histories: Colston’s Last Journey

Join the team from Satsymph and UWE for an assisted soundwalk exploring a landmark site of contested history, in the very place where it happened, using nothing but your mobile phone.

Colston’s Last Journey is a located audio work using digital pools of sound to uncover the hidden history of Bristol’s role in the Transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans.

We will meet at the Colston statue plinth on Colston Avenue.

We will briefly introduce the project and the technology that powers it, then we will walk as a group from the Colston plinth to Pero’s Bridge.

You will encounter an interactive sea of sound upon which nine ‘audio ghost ships’ are moored, each ship representing a different facet of the trafficking. You will then be given the opportunity to download the walk to your own phone to experience it in your own time.

Afterwards, we will tour the ‘Protest’ gallery at M Shed then invite you to take part in a short discussion about the use of immersive audio like this for historic site interpretation.

Organisers

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Contact

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Accessibility

Assistance dogs welcome, Pushchair/pram friendly, Step-free access, Wheelchair accessible
The walk takes place on public throughfares in the city centre and is mostly pedestrianised. It is mobility accessible.

Meet point

Colston statue plinth
Colston Avenue
Bristol
BS14UB