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Who we are
Hamish Sewell and Bettina Walter are the two directors of Sound Trails Pty Ltd. The buck stops with us.
We are supported by a great team of developers, contracting producers, mapping experts, sound engineers as well as creative industry and academic collaborators.
What drives us
We host, create and co-create unique, hand-crafted audio walks whilst generating income opportunities for producers creatives, musicians and hopefully soon communities involved in capturing stories and culture and literally putting them on the map.
Our relationship with creatives and communities is something we treasure, respect and honor.
We are passionate about the power and responsibility of creating locative audio experiences and its future in a mobile mediated world.
After many years of working on commissions at the forefront of this field, we are not afraid of push the boundaries of this mobile driven experience.
We support others who also appreciate the incredible potential, to experiment, play and think through their storied places and spaces.
We support communities and people to share their stories in compelling ways through the entirety of the process: from the technological framework to the necessary agreements, to the methodology used or the step by step process (and art) of embarking on and undertaking a place-based audio experience that will last the test of time.
We are striving to creating income sources for multi disciplinary creatives, share our knowledge and enable communities to create income generating experiences.
A Brief History of Soundtrails
First came the Story Project, conceived by Helen Wilkinson and Hamish Sewell in Queensland, Australia in 2010. The Story Project was geared to record and archive personal and not so personal stories – told and shared by family or community members in an intimate setting.
With a background in long format radio documentaries, Hamish was then looking for an App that allowed for sounds, stories and voices to be mapped, and for these to be experienced on site, in context. It was still a technological frontier. So Hamish found Chris Randall from CoCreations and with the help from some other amazing folks (namely developers Christine Parfitt, Keating Mustard and Michael Strong, along with cartographer, Gavin James) embarked on developing such a platform.
From this Sound Trails Pty Ltd has grown to an audio experience production house platform, mobile app and now learning platform for creating immersive locative experiences.
Working with creatives, producers and artists
We have a great network of outstanding professional producers, sound engineers, voice actors and musicians. Many are award winning and internationally recognised. With Soundtrails being all about building compelling listening experiences, these gifted people help to ensure our work is engaging and crafted.
We can take care of an
- entire production
- or link people up
- or support independent productions