Can You Hear Me? London (accompanying sound piece)

Where walking becomes writing, and reading becomes listening.

Can You Hear Me? is an acoustic ecology project that explores listening as a method of placemaking, memory, and urban embodiment. Combining psychogeographic writing, field recording, sound art, and autobiographical fragments, the work traces the sonic textures of place through the perspective of a female walker-listener navigating the city’s emotional and political geographies. Drawing on feminist critiques of the flâneur, the project reclaims urban wandering as an act of attentive listening rather than detached observation, foregrounding the overlooked, intimate, and affective dimensions of everyday sound.

Can You Hear Me? London is a diary of listening and movement — a journey through London’s streets where the city itself begins to speak. Blurring memoir, theory, and sonic art, the work examines how gender, space, and sound intertwine in everyday life. The project becomes both a love letter and a reclamation: a reminder that to walk, to listen, and to speak are acts of resistance against patriarchal geographies.

While the flâneur drifts through history, women have listened, written, and wandered in quieter registers — diaries, detours, fragments. This work continues that lineage, rendering London as a living companion shaped by footsteps, memory, and relationships.

Paired with an original soundtrack composed from field recordings, Can You Hear Me? London invites audiences to read as an act of listening — to experience the urban landscape as an intimate, feminist map.

https://www.leannecunningham.com/can-you-hear-me-2026.html