Channel Migration Audio Walk - presented at Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, Kitchener ON - 2025

This work is a collaboratively-written and researched project undertaken by Sydney Lancaster & Geoff Martin, with aerial and dance work from Erika Lui, as part of the ongoing work of The Creek Collective.

Sydney Lancaster - Text, narration, field recordings, audio editing & mixing

Erika Lui - Aerial performance (at Homer Watson Park) & Dance Performance (at the meeting of the Creek & the River)

Geoff Martin - Text, narration, field recordings, supporting graphic documents/maps

Music - Excerpts of the world premiere performance of creek*, a graphic score by Deborah Carruthers, performed by the NuEars Ensemble, led by Kathryn Ladano

A 14 km, 13-station Audio Walk the full length of Schneider Creek, from Willow River (Victoria) Park in downtown Kitchener, all the way to Doon, where the Creek joins the O:se Kenhionhata:tie (Willow River/Grand River).

Each station’s soundscape blends field recordings, creek-inspired music, and brief narrative reflections to consider Schneider Creek’s ongoing relationship with the human and more-than-human communities that live beside and within the path of the water. Schneider Creek is the lifeblood of the place now called Kitchener, just like creeks, streams, and rivers the world over.