Soundtrackcity makes sound art available to a wide audience

Dutch premiere audio app TRACKS

Want to discover the ((un)heard) stories of Amsterdam? Soundtrackcity has developed a free app for artful audio walks along twenty routes in Amsterdam - a unique way to discover the city through the ears of renowned sound artists. 

The app lets you discover the stories of Amsterdam, anytime and anywhere. Discover the secrets of the canals, listen to the different languages heard in the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood or go on a musical voyage of discovery along the buildings of the Amsterdamse School.

Connect with the city
With more than sixty audio walks in the Netherlands and Belgium, including twenty in Amsterdam, TRACKS makes sound art accessible to a wide audience. TRACKS connects you with the city and the work of the participating audio artists. The walks are GPS-controlled and include stories, interviews, soundscapes and original music.

The twenty walks in Amsterdam go through all parts of the city, from the Zuidas to Weesp and the Jordaan. They stimulate the imagination and invite you to experience familiar surroundings in a new way. The walks have been put together by teams of musicians, theatre-makers, filmmakers, visual artists and composers. Among others, Alison Isadora, Anne Wellmer, Evelien van den Broek, Fiona Weir, Francisco Lopez, Hannes Wallrafen, Justin Bennett, Nienke Rooijakkers, Renate Zentschnig and Robbert van Heumen contributed to TRACKS.

Who makes TRACKS?
In the summer of 2020, Michiel Huijsman (Soundtrackcity) and Justin Bennett (Jubilee) teamed up. They came with the idea for an app that could host all the artistic audio walks from sound art organisations in the Netherlands and Belgium: Jubilee, Beursschouwburg, BNA-BBOT, Overtoon, Q-O2, and Soundtrackcity.
The participants jointly curate and maintain the app and further expand the collection of audio walks within and outside the Netherlands and Belgium.

Download the app from the App Store or Google Play.
More info: www.tracksaudiowalks.org.