Harrogate Sound Survey

Every episode in this series starts the same way. I walk out with a recorder and no fixed plan, and let the town decide the route. That is close to what the Situationists called the dérive: instead of choosing where to go, you let the place choose for you.Flâneurs used to walk a city to see it properly. Sound Map of Harrogate does the same with a microphone, working through the town one place at a time. Some of these recordings come from streets everyone in Harrogate already knows. Others come from