This is how some of our audiodetour might look:
Video by Alex Synge:
*maebh
Saturday 5 May 2007
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Here's what the Irish Times said last Saturday - a great review!
It's an Audio Detour: Work and Play, Around Dublin city
"Give your partner a little smile," says the voice in my head. Can do. "Do you see the pedestrianised walkway?" enquires the voice a few seconds later. Um, well, now that you mention it, no, I don't. "You should now be turning right onto the boardwalk." Oh Christ . . . Finding your steps - and particularly your pace - on the fifth edition of It's an Audio Detour is a cognitive challenge, an intriguing effort of social choreography and - for those not easily embarrassed - lots of fun.
Devised by Maebh Cheasty and Fiona Hallinan (who goes by the name Fink), with sound design and soothingly voiced instructions by Peter Morrow, it is an MP3-guided journey from Grattan Bridge, and it includes a Luas trip, a bike ride for one partner, hopscotch for the other, and concludes in a pub in the IFSC. It is meticulously timed, contextually playful, slightly confusing, and requires oceans of trust and an easy ability to follow directions. For those who have neither, it is still doable, but not exactly idiot-proof. Requiring some familiarity with the city, this detour is not tourist-friendly.
In an almost neurotically cautious age for performance, it is admirable that this open-air experience comes without a chaperone or a safety rail.
But, having earlier worried that a plain-clothes Audio Detourist might have been following me, after a couple of hiccups I began to hope one was.
Morrow's soundscape is nicely calming, though, and the text is gently wry, letting voices chime in during the tour's idle moments to offer either documentary interviews about their working lives or to impart dubious
advice: "Skip the queue," goes one such voice, urging civil disobedience to people who must slavishly follow orders.
It is never lost on us that in taking the Audio Detour we have become performers; our strange behaviour and daft little movements rarely occurring without an accidental audience.
I'm not sure I learned much new about Dublin, but it reaffirmed my belief in the heroic composure of Dubliners. When two giggling people with enormous headphones, locked in an absurdly amateur pas de deux, barely merit a second glance, you realise just how hard it is these days to make a show of yourself.
Runs hourly between 5.30pm and 8.30pm from May 8th to 11th
- Peter Crawley
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