The Water that Moves You is a sound-walk designed for a specific section along the river Maas in the city centre of Rotterdam. The audio includes parallel narratives of different characters that blend the past, present, and future together. They speculate on our watery destiny from the specific angles of the Maas as a trade carrier, a public space, a potential threat as the water levels are rising and a place for contemplation.

link to the sound-walk: The Water that Moves You (2023)

link to the trial version of the sound-walk: The Water that Moves You (2022, trial)

CREDITS:

A warm thank you to everyone who made this project and the accompanying booklet possible.

Sound artist: Joshua Thies; Sound Studio: iii; Voice actors: Thom Driver, Guy Livingston, Wilhelmina Sederholm, June Yu; Print workshop: Grafische Werkplaats Den Haag, Stencilwerck

This project is funded by Gemeente Rotterdam.

The Water that Moves You booklet is a poetic continuation of the sound-walk it accompanies. It holds imagery that adds to the speculative storyline and offers an entrance to revisit the possibilities that living and moving with water holds.

The booklet is riso-printed and hand-folded by waterybeings at the Grafische Werkplaats in the Hague. Conceptual layers of the research that informed the sound-walk form the different layers, such as photographs from field-research, experiments with cyano-printing and the continuously changing paths of a river if left to its own course of being.

Release date: September 17th, 2023
Page count: 6 pages
Format: accordion fold A3 poster zine
Selling price: 12,50 €
Language: English