score for here

Jimena Sarno

About this app

TTake a stroll and let your desired path determine your wayfinding and sonic experience of the site.

Score for Here is a platform for site-specific sonic experiences composed through geolocation. The project invites visitors to experience soundscapes in real time as they navigate the site. The experience is streamed on the visitor’s mobile connection and it can be enjoyed with a pair of headphones.

Some soundwalks use modified field recordings and samples remixed through a custom geolocative app that functions as an aleatory compositional principle. In this case the app allows each visitor to compose sound in real time determined by the choreography of their navigation choice. With other soundwalks, you will be able to listen to complete sound compositions assigned to each zone.

The project is inspired both by the asymmetric dispute of contested boundaries and cartographies, and what is known in urban planning and landscape architecture as “desire paths.” Considering geolocative software is traditionally designed to guide and direct, Score for Here repurposes it as an aleatory compositional principle that inspires divergence.

The app will remain available on-site indefinitely and will change overtime while the sound database continues to grow. Rather than a seamless, finished artwork for consumption, the work is a morphing proposition, a catalyst for speculation and potential transformation.

Guidelines and suggestions:

-Find yourself at the soundwalk location. You can start your experience anywhere within the soundwalk boundaries.

-You will have to physically be at the soundwalk site to listen.

-After you've started the experience, you can see your current position as the blue dot. Entering a sound zone on the map will trigger that sound, and the zone will highlight on the map.

-Tapping on a zone on the map will bring up more info.

-To best experience Score for Here, put your phone in your pocket for a more immersive listening experience.

For more information visit:
https://scoreforhere.com/
For feedback or suggestions, or to share your experience please drop us a line:
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Ratings and reviews

Missed this experience when it was running with clockshop. Trying to do this from the LA state historical park and it just keeps crashing. Nothing is happening, no sounds play. Restarting is not helping. Looking forward to trying again if it gets fixed

May 4, 2022: Maybe the exhibit hasnt started yet, but the app doesn't work at the moment. No sound and consistent crashing. Will the app functionality begin on May 7?

Lovely concept but crashing every time a walk starts on pixel 4

What’s new

Fixes some bugs and upgrades the app for the latest updates