Wandering around London’s Borough of Hackney has just become a whole lot more interesting with a new smartphone app that creates a soundtrack for your peregrinations through London Fields and Broadway Market.
From the makers of the award-winning Hackney Podcast, the GPS-based Hackney Hear app triggers different audio depending on your exact location, allowing locals, writers and artists to narrate your travels with their stories. Discover more about the history of the park as told by psycho-geographer, journalist and E8 denizen, Iain Sinclair; hear tales about gangs from those who live in the area; or simply listen to audio from a table tennis match as you walk by the court.
Much like Lavinia Greenlaw’s Audio Obscura (an audio installation that let people don headphones and wander round St Pancras and Manchester Piccadilly stations while listening to fragments of private conversations and inner monologues) and the Goldsmiths’ project I Am Here (where huge portrait pictures of residents of a soon-to-be demolished Hackney council estate were hung on the outside of the building), Hackney Hear gives voice to those who inhabit the community, and helps shed a different context on a familiar environment.
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