Creative Mapping from the Sounding Covid-19 Repository
In Lines of Desire, Dr Georgios Varoutsos discusses his sound walking project, Sounding Covid-19.
This work takes us back to consider the ways that Covid-19 lockdowns shaped the audible experiences of the city. Through description and a sound repository, Georgios shows us that this difficult time was not simply marked by a lack of movement and contact, but by new (or perhaps otherwise obscured in ‘normal times’) sensory environments. Like much of the sound art produced in these pages, Sounding Covid-19 encourages us to consider the sensory dimensions of place, which are all too often backgrounded in the daily rhythms and routines of urban life.