1 1/2 Years of Sonic Itinerancy - A Project for Audio Travelers

Hello,
We announced the Sonic Itinerancy project around 1 1/2 years ago.
You can read the full context here: https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2024/01/itinerant-audio-music-for-sonic.html

But to give a short recap: the idea was to no longer listen to music in a fixed location, while being static.
Not at home, not in your chair, not even at a club or a festival. Because all of these tie you down to a certain point in your local geography.

But to listen to music while moving, travelling, exploring the world.
To become a traveler - not only in the real world, but in the world of sound as well.
Embracing music while being in a state of motion.

So this is a kind of first sonic travelogue.

I spent many hours on this project. Apparently, there are two ways to do it: to plan a journey solely for the music. For example, finding a bus route that travels in circles, then get on there, and listen to sound as long as you want.
Or to incorporate it into destinations that you wanted to go anyway, like hiking to a beautiful lake while having your headphones on.
I ended up combining both most of the time, for example planning a sonic trip into a forest, but, when I was there, also enjoying the inspiring sight of nature. (i.e. without the Sonic Itinerancy project, I would not have traveled there).

BTW, when following the second path, it's important to not become a mere traveler who listens to music at the same time; but to keep the idea of Sonic Itinerancy in mind. To focus on the strange and peculiar sensation of listening to music while also changing location at the same time, "being on the move".

But now to my log.

The experiences were ecstatic, mesmerizing, enchanting, entrancing. The thing felt much "bigger" than I had expected.
I was doing my rounds on a sports field under the starry sky of night, while listening to the haunting doomcore of Miro and Marc Acardipane; and just as the most epic strings in Reign's "Hall" began to bloom, a cloud moved aside and the moon appeared in all its glory, illuminating the dark world, the sports field, and my heart, as the bittersweet track filled my mind.

I was getting into deep trance and deep meditation while riding the bus on a "circuit" route, and the monotonous and hypnotic motion of Acid and Acidcore pierced my ears.

I was walking through forests that felt like entering a world that time forgot, while ghostly Ambient swirled through my headphones.

In the end, it turned out that the main assumption and idea of the Sonic Itinerancy project was right.
That music really feels different, appears different, *is* different when you do not listen to it while being static, still, "fixed" in one location, but are actually *moving*, changing, on a journey.

There are aspects in music to be found that just can't be deciphered if you sit on your chair all the time.

As might have been expected, tracks most suitable for this seem to be those that are peculiar and "strange" in general, like Industrial, Ambient, Krautrock, Doom...
And which have a kind of hypnotic "motion", rhythm to them, that might mimic the rhythm of feats walking, pedaling, or engines setting wheels in motion.

All I can say is: try it yourself. If you have doubts about my report, why not check this thing on your own?
You won't regret it - there is a new world to be discovered. There are new journeys to be discovered.

P.S.

One of the off-shoots of this project was a haunted Slowcore movie, which kinda inverted this theme: a sonic journey, not for the traveler this time, but the watcher at home.

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2024/10/sonic-itinerancy-doomcore-techno-walk.html

Playlist:

1. Zekt - Exp. Pt 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZrYyMim4Go
2. Reign - Light And Dark (The Next Dimension) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JxZ_qc5O7Q
3. The Mover - Comet's Swarm Rising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dPw9Pq69G0
4. Disintegrator - In The Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AyvjLrw1uc
5. Six Mullahs - Persian Lover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4su17U876_w
6. Alien Factory - Alpha Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppW9eLVrwi0
7. Trip Commando - Eastern Origins (Chorus Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njdxF1ej9UQ
8. Christoph de Babalon - A Long Way Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kHXKYpS8I
9. Tangerine Dream - Birth Of Liquid Pleiades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WRDQmFJhFQ
10. Reign - Hall (Maximum Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OfuTvL2bH4