So I chose to go for the Murmur audio walking on Spadina Avenue. Walking on the street with different people telling different stories of the same site, I felt that I was in a big city museum. I had experience walking while listening to the explanation of what I am looking at. However, that experience was only in museums. Murmur provides people to walking around the city and hearing people talking about the site and their own memories of the site. On Spadina Avenue, some old sites have all gone and changed to different retails, however, in the sound track, we can still get to know what it was in the past. For instance, there was a man talking about his art gallery and his stories in that gallery, but in the same time, what we have in front of us is a closed retail store. It is interesting to have things like this while walking, what we’ve seen is not what we’ve heard, and what we’ve heard is the history of both the site and the city while what we’ve seen is the present of the site or the city.
While walking on the street, listening to the stories, for people who haven’t seen the old street, the stories create a space for the listeners to imagine what the street looks like before; and for people who have seen the old street before, these stories will definitely bring back their memories as well as their own stories.
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