Intertidal Room is a soundwalk composition developed for Vancouver coastline near Stanley Park, unceded territory of Coast Salish peoples - Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lõ and Səlīlwəta?/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəýəm (Musqueam) Nations. The composition invites the listener to embark on a soundwalk during a period of slack water. It is a moment when the tide is at the lowest point and soon about to return. By attending to the fugitive nature of intertidal zones, this soundwalk intends to provide a temporary room for increased aural attention to the ways people have been cultivating, affecting but also disrupting various, also imperceptible layers of these complex environments.
The research is funded by the Swedish Research Council.