Unauthorised Audio Tours
These are independent audio tours that offer an alternative take on familiar spaces.
Something like site specific theatrical podcasts.
They are solo-experiences to be enjoyed anytime using your smart phone or other device
... just not from the comfort of your own home.
Something like site specific theatrical podcasts.
They are solo-experiences to be enjoyed anytime using your smart phone or other device
... just not from the comfort of your own home.
Audio Tour 6: Scene/Heard
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Frustrated that your lived experience lacks a beginning, a middle and an end? Let Binge Culture frame your view, and give you a cinematic soundscape to help process the scene.
Putting the “yeu" in “voyeurism” and the “IN” in “cinema”, this work transforms a public park into a short film, creating bold narratives out of seemingly random events. It’s people-watching as a cultural event - a curious, public, cinematic-intervention. Created by Joel Baxendale and Oliver Devlin Currently only available at theatres. |
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Audio Tour 5: Happy Hour
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No-one said having fun was easy. Hire our 25 minute audio-guide and your new rent-a-friend will help steer the good ship ‘You’ into the wild ocean of the night.
With Binge Culture it’s always Happy Hour. Written by Joel Baxendale, Oliver Devlin and Isobel McKinnon Narrated by Isobel McKinnon Edit and Sound Design by Oliver Devlin Produced by Joel Baxendale Commissioned by James McKinnon and the Victoria University of Wellington Research Trust Currently only available at theatres. |
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Audio Tour 4: Where Sh*t Is and Where to Sh*t
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Victoria University. What is it and what is your purpose within it? Find out with Binge Culture’s uncompromising, unbridled, unauthorised audio tour - Where Shit Is and Where to Shit: 101 Valuable lessons to successfully student.
What are the secrets of Von-Zedlitz? What icons were burned and by whom? Which carpet is the softest? Let’s find out. Join us for a life-hack of Kelburn Campus. Guaranteed to be the most interesting thing of the next three years. Written by Joel Baxendale and Isobel McKinnon Narrated by Isobel McKinnon Edit and Sound Design by Oliver Devlin Produced by Joel Baxendale |
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Audio Tour 3: Enter the New WorldIntroducing the personal audio device debut of one of the greatest triumphs of Binge Culture’s audio-tour-making career: Enter the New World, the very first audio-driven-first-person-adventure-of-your-own-local-New-World-Supermarket in New Zealand history.
Steve Jobs would have been thrilled to know that through today’s technology literally tens of people are enjoying unauthorised, satirical audio tours of places in obscure antipodean cities at times of their own choosing. Time and time again. Developed to accompany your weekly shopping, and featuring original songs by Gareth Hobbs, this tour promises to make the ordinary extraordinary and open your eyes to the wonders of the New World. Experience the third Binge Culture audio tour at Fringe Festival near you, rendered in high quality Dolby Stereo sound: Enter the New World. Written by Joel Baxendale and Ralph Upton Voiced by Jonny Potts, Claire O'Loughlin, Mouce Young, Yi-Ling Chai, Joel Baxendale and Ralph upton Original sound design by Gareth Hobbs with additional music from Dvorak's New World Symphony Produced by Joel Baxendale |
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Audio Tour 2: LitCrawl 2015Start at the Tripod Sculpture at the end of Courtney Place
A chance to relive the experience of the 2015 LitCrawl, the festival of art, literature and the spoken word. Your guides are Joel and Ralph of Binge Culture. They'll show you around, and introduce you to the people behind the festival, tell you about the shows, and take you back in time to hear some of the performances, in the venues where they actually happened. This tour is delivered through the innovative, location-aware app VoiceMap. Available for android and iPhone. written and performed by Ralph upton and Joel Baxendale featuring Claire Mabey, Andrew Laking, Pip Hall, Coco Solid sound design by Oliver Devlin |
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Audio Tour 1: Te Papa Walkthrough Levels 4, 5, and 6
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Please note: Te Papa has changed its exhibitions and layouts to an extent that means this tour is no longer workable in the museum. You can still download and listen if you like.
We reimagined the national museum as game to be clocked and made an in depth exploration of pretty much everything except the exhibitions. This was a forty minute audio tour that you could do any time that Te Papa was open. Just watch out for the red-shirts... Written and performed by Ralph Upton and Joel Baxendale Production and sound design by Gareth Hobbs. "If you are looking for something cool and inexpensive to do in Wellington, this is it."
Hannah Smith, Theatreview "The most stimulating piece of art in Wellington right now." Mark Amery, The Big Idea ★★★★½ David Williams, Salient Magazine |
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