Ticknock:
What’s Going On?
A podcast to wander up the hill with.
Launches October 6, 2024
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A new podcast exploring the changing landscape of our forests over seasons, years and millennia. Listen at home or take it on a walk to the top of Ticknock Hill.
Guided by a host of local voices connected to the landscape, the podcast is timed to follow a moderate route at an easy pace from the upper carpark at Ticknock Forest to Fairy Castle (starting point on Google Maps here).
Listen wherever you get your podcasts by searching “Ticknock: What’s Going On?”
Before you leave the house, download the podcast to your phone. Signal gets patchy near the masts. You can also do that by clicking this link. The podcast will pre-load on your phone’s web browser, ready to listen when you arrive.
Bring comfortable shoes, a charged phone and headphones, water and warm, waterproof clothes.
CREATED BY Listen & Breathe
ORIGINAL COMPOSITION Kevin McNamara
AUDIO SOLUTION Maxime Touroute
INTERVIEWEES: Rob Goodbody, Karen Woods, Ian Bromley, Clodagh Duffy, Lori Johnston, Niall Davis, Jo Denyer, Frank Prendergast, Roslyn and Robert Nicholson, Deirdre Black.
Commissioned by Creative Ireland as part of the Nature and Place Commissions, with additional funding from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County County Council. Supported by Coillte Nature and the Dublin Mountains Partnership.
Experiences to refresh your wonder.
OF A MIND:
Dún Laoghaire
July 7 - 17, 2022 | Tickets: www.paviliontheatre.ie/of-a-mind
Join this guided walking tour from the People’s Park to the end of the pier. Meditative, immersive, and based on the latest in mind-body research, OF A MIND invites you to reconnect with nature and find the best in ourselves.
Guided by a live narrator and set to a score of local voices, stories, sounds, and music, audiences of up to 50 at a time are brought on a journey through hidden gems and often-missed parts of Dún Laoghaire in an exploration of mindfulness, urban ecology and social interactions.
Audiences are kept in sync with each other through their own smartphone and headphones.
CREATED BY Listen & Breathe
ORIGINAL COMPOSITION Kevin McNamara
Video by Daniel Fowler
Commissioned by Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, to celebrate their 21st birthday and supported by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
“An unlikely fusion of low-key urban adventure, mindfulness exercises and immersive storytelling... A fulfilling, singular and even sometimes profound experience”
FEAST:
Every Year I Grow Again
Twelve audience members, guided by 3D sound and visuals, taste their way through a seasonally-harvested, locally-sourced meal.
To create the experience we travelled to oyster farms, chicken farms, organic farms and wind farms, talked the ears off hunters, fishers, foragers and fermenters, and got our hands dirty with bakers, butchers, brewers and bees to find out how we grow from what’s growing.
Produced by L.A.-based production company New Neighborhood at Nantucket Culinary Centre, 2018.
“ I don’t know what the future of experiential dining is, but I know Hugh and his team are at the forefront of this exploration.”
OF A MIND:
Oklahoma City
April 30-May 29, 2022
A guided audio tour of downtown, starting in Kerr Park, OF A MIND captures the changing spirit of Oklahoma City’s increasingly vital urban core.
Guided by a narrator and set to a score of local voices, stories, sounds, and music, audiences of up to 50 at a time are brought on a journey through often-overlooked parts of the city in an exploration of mindfulness, urban ecology and social interactions. Audiences are kept in sync with each other through their own smartphone and headphones.
CREATED BY Listen & Breathe (Hugh Farrell and Tyler Kieffer), Kelly Kerwin, & Emily Zemba
ORIGINAL COMPOSITION Kevin McNamara
MOVEMENT DIRECTION Hui Cha Poos
Video by Caleb Germany
“An unlikely fusion of low-key urban adventure, mindfulness exercises and immersive storytelling... A fulfilling, singular and even sometimes profound experience”
Every morning I wake and seem to forget…
A hero’s journey into mindfulness.
A pair of audience members, guided in headphones, set off on an interactive adventure designed to deepen their relationship with themselves, each other and their environment.
Originally created as a commission for Body&Soul Festival in 2016, we recreated new iterations for Another Love Story in 2017 and Clonmel Junction Festival in 2018.
Every iteration becomes its own experience as we soak up the atmosphere of each new location.
“a magical experience
It changed how I connect with people”
OF A MIND: Bray
A guided audio journey along Bray’s iconic promenade.
Part flash mob, part silent disco, part Mass—OF A MIND captures the changing spirit of our lives in a guided audio experience designed especially for Bray’s iconic promenade.
Meditative, immersive, and informed by the latest in mind-body research, dive deeper into the mystery of our minds as you step into rhythm with your breath and take a trip through the collective consciousness.
Guided by a live narrator and set to a score of local voices, sounds and music, gather as one of 50 at the Victorian bandstand for this outdoor walking experience using your own smartphone and headphones.
Video by Alan Fisher, music by Henry Prune and photo by Bríd O’Donovan.
Commissioned by Mermaid Arts Centre and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Creative Ireland, and Wicklow County Council.
All Day I Imagine How to Act
Stand in your self.
A solo audience member, alone on a busy city street, is guided into witnessing that all the world’s a stage and that they are, depending on how they look at it, both actor and spectator.
Inspired by Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, this experience explores how we perform and perceive our selves in public.
Premiered at Live Collision Festival, Dublin, 2017.
