My original idea was bringing participants to a wild camping + listening trip, which I called Sound camping. The main goal of the activity is to explore and listen to the sound of humans in nature. By doing wild camping in a listening workshop setting – listening with collective ears, the workshop aims to seek the relationship between human and nature. Wild camping is a modern way of human surviving in nature, and perhaps is one of the modern activities that is the closest to nature. We are part of the natural soundscape, yet, the sounds we make are completely different from other animal’s sound.
However, after considering a few factors, I decided to do a performance instead of Sound Camping. The first factor is the accessibility. There are different type of soundwalk, but most of them are fairly accessible. This kind of practices are design for most of the people to experience. However, wild camping isn’t welcome for everyone. The physical requirement and people interests may stop them to have a full listening experiences. The land accessibility also is the factor that I considered. When big group of people going wild camping, it can disturb the native biosphere. Although we go there in an intention of study nature, we still have a certain degree of negative impact to the environment. The bioacoustics could be different as well because of our present.