Sediments is an experimental, participatory sound walk that inverts the traditional model of passive listening, transforming it into a collaborative exercise in sonic sedimentation. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros’ Quantum Listening, R. Murray Schafer’s Soundscape Ecology, and Robert Smithson’s Non-Sites, the project displaces recorded sound through space and time, layering traces of past environments into new ones.

The process unfolds across multiple stations. At Station 1, a manifesto is read aloud and recorded by all participants. As the group moves from site to site, one participant plays back the previous station’s recording through a centrally placed Bluetooth speaker while others record the evolving sonic landscape. With each iteration, new environmental and human traces accumulate, eroding and altering the original soundscape.

This walk is not about capturing a static moment, but about forecasting, attuning, and engaging in an act of deep listening. By shifting focus away from the visual and toward the act of listening itself, Sediments transforms sound into a living archive of movement, memory, and sonic erosion. The final playback reveals an auditory palimpsest—where the original voice has been absorbed into a layered sonic geography.

This experience invites participants not just to listen, but to actively shape and anticipate how sound mutates across space, offering a new form of agency in sound-based ecological practice.