After looking into audio tours and the way they work, I and the group decided we wanted to create not just an audio tour but an audio experience. This experience will in theory take the person from their daily life and make them think and question the way they look at not just the surroundings but the way them as people react and function in that place. Leading them through a personal journey that we the creators underwent ourselves in order to make a strong connection with not only the performance but in themselves. “There is a purposeful blurring of personal, expert and popular sources: to help illuminate, explicate and problematize the multiplicity of meanings that resonate within and from the landscapes”(Pearson, 2010, 81). This quote sums up Mike Pearson’s project Carrland’s it shows a similar format to the way we wish to form our audio tour. We want the audience to see their surroundings in a new and interesting way but instead of linking in the history and concentrating on the past of the place itself. The audience will reflect upon their personal experiences and connections with the place and water in particular, this will free them from the restraints of the commercial atmosphere of the plaza. and the way technology can distract us from the world. To wrap up this inner journey we will give the participant a paper boat, one that dissolves in water and ask them to place it on the quiet end of the brayford. At this point the person will in theory have a realisation, thought or dedication they would like to attach to the boat. Making the launch of this vanishing boat not just a physical act, but an emotional one they will always remember.

(Pearson, M. (2010) Site Specific Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillian.)