Josh Kopeček is a creative technologist.

He’s designed and built numerous pieces of technology, centering on walking and sound.

City of Floating Sounds by composer Huang Ruo in collaboration with Factory International is a symphonic audio experience. Josh created the app which powers the walking part. Participants play parts of the symphony out loud on their mobile devices. The project has toured to cities all over the world, such as the Lincoln Centre in New York, Beijing’s National Centre for Performance Art, and the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre in London.

He’s founder of ECHOES, a platform for publishing sound walks.

ECHOES is a sound walk platform which allows creators to make and publish incredible GPS-triggered audio walking experiences. ECHOES also designs bespoke apps which focus on sound and location, including ‘Earth & Sky’ for Bradford City of Culture 2025, The Royal Parks and The Royal Academy’s collaborative ‘Music for Trees’ app; the ‘Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK’ app in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic in Central Park, New York, and many other locations across the US; the Zollverein UNESCO World Heritage Site audio guide and visitor app. More information is available on the ECHOES website project page.

He also acted as creative technologist for the large-scale interactive musical garden installation ‘Symphonic Garden’ for the Bundesgartenschau (BUGA) in Mannheim, Germany, sponsored by NEXT Mannheim, which includes interactive garden furniture and live sound all year round.

His company ECHOES has also received funding as part of the UKRI Digital Catapult 5G Testbed Heritage XR programme in Brighton, UK, in collaboration as part of a project led by Immersive Networks to develop cutting edge high-bandwidth spatial audio experiences utilising the latest android technologies for head tracking. The outcome is an immersive spatial audio guide for Brighton Dome delving into the undiscovered stories of Brighton.