This was the first in the series of Audio Guides. Each Audio Guide defines a 1km² area of ground. The area is delineated by matching a single pixel from a satellite image to a topographic map of the same area at a 1:1 scale.

Audio Guides are attempts to reclaim digitised areas of land by recording and describing them with analogue sound. This Audio Guide has been produced by a small group of 10 -11 year old children who are familiar with the 1km² area of Loughborough Junction. The guide is read by them and includes recordings of ambient sounds particular to their experience.

Although the guides have the appearance of an object with a utilitarian function they are intended more as an audio archive of a momentary acoustic sculpture – an arbitrary square of sound that can replayed and re-con-textualised in time. Because this is a square that is defined by sound it defies the natural and manmade physical barriers, and those by which history and time are predominantly measured. It was important that this Audio Guide was recorded with children who were of an age that meant they were only partly conditioned by language.

This Guide covers an area called 'five-ways' close to Loughborogh Junction, Brixton. Each Audio Guide is produced as a numbered map that can be used to navigate the area it defines.

The Guides are hand printed in a limited edition of 100 using silkscreen and CD-R. The edition of the Audio Guide allowed copies to be given to the School, The local Youth Club and community groups, The Lambeth Council and stored at the Minet Library for public use.

  track listing on silk screened CD-R publication | edition of 100 | childrens audio guide, Loughborough Junction | 2005