1km2 homeless audio guide for central London (2006)
   
 

This is the second 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 together with a small group of anonymous homeless people who are familiar with the 1km2 area of Central London. The guide is read by them and includes recordings of ambient sounds particular to their experience.

This Guide covers an area which includes St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Charing Cross, Leicester Square and Soho. 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.

 

 

  1km2 area selected from satellite image
 
 
assembling the edition of 100 CD-R silkscreened audio guide publications
 
process of assembling the edition of 100 CD-R silkscreened audio guide publications
   
 
related works
  auto - lectures (2006)
  childrens audio guide (2005)
  landscapes (2006)