Running Music

_{Editorial
…when we talk about running
The motive of walking has a long and varied history in literature, from Virginia Woolf’s essay “Street Haunting” to James Joyce’s Ulysses to Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust. Haruki Murakami has written his memoir as a book about running, tracing the parallels between long-distance running and writing.
In sound studies, Shuhei Hosokawa famously explores the nexus of sound and walking in “The Walkman Effect”. Like many researchers in the field, Hosokawa considers walking as an activity which actualizes the city, from the myriad possibilities latent in its design. And of course, the Walkman and its offspring have provided us with the opportunity to soundtrack this activity; streaming services abound with running playlists to motivate or entertain you on the run. On the other hand, the World Soundscape Project has made attentive, wide-eared soundwalking one of its key practices.
Into this wealth of associations taps this month’s contribution to The Eaves.}