The Canadian artist Janet Cardiff works in a range of mediums, often in collaboration with her life partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff started creating audio walks in the 1990s. Designed for specific locales, the audio walks guide you along, in your headphones the sound of voices whispering, telling stories, giving directions, recorded sound fx blending with the sounds of the environment you are walking in. I’ve been lucky enough to do three of Cardiff’s walks: The Missing Voice: Case Study B begins in a library in Whitechapel and takes you on a journey towards Liverpool Street Station in London’s East End; Her Long Black Hair takes you through New York’s Central Park; A Large Slow River is set in the grounds of Gairloch Gardens on Lake Ontario, west of Toronto. The Cardiff walks are wonderful experiences. Every person’s walk is unique; the recorded soundscape stays the same, but the environment you’re walking in is always shifting and you brings things of your own to the walk. Here’s a short video illustrating part of what you might have seen and heard while doing The Missing Voice: Case Study B in London. You can find more about the work of Cardiff & Bures Miller at their website, or if you’re in British Columbia, at their Art Warehouse.