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I am interested in wild camping and I did few project on this topic previously. When I was working on gallery 46 for exhibition, I set up a tent and using few speaker cones to try to recreate wild camping experience. However, thought the transmission of sounds by using different instruments and equipments (microphone, recorder, processing on computer, amplifier and speakers), the listening experience were no longer the same. The acoustic quality, the sounds from others pieces in the gallery, the sensation of indoor and outdoor alter the experience. Hence, the only way for audiences to experience the sonic journey of wild camping is through doing wild camping together, which is similarly to soundwalk. I am thinking to do a practice that is the mixture of wild camping and soundwalk – Sound Camping. The process of Sound Camping is the encourage the participant to listen the natural soundscapes around them, and most importantly, the sounds that we made while doing wild camping. The sounds of balance and imbalance of sounds of wild camping activities. The sounds of cutting and chopping fire wood, the sound of setting up the tents, the sound of burning campfire, the sound of cooking. The sounds of fire and cooking are generally consider as ‘natural’ and it matches the soundscape around us, but it actually a human-made sounds. To contrast campfire, the camping gas stove create a drone which may generally consider disturbing the nature. Then where is the boundary of human-made sounds.