Audio map of the Globe - Social Sound Design

Audio map of the Globe

2010-08-26T06:12:06Z

So i was sitting at the beach the other day. It was pretty much the first day of warm weather (summer) in San Francisco. Anyways, I was thinking that all along the coastline of almost any place in the world is a bunch of wave sounds. Then I thought about how one could map the world through sound. Decidous forests would have a color, the artic etc...wind patterns, reflection patterns.
So has this been done?

Answer by Auddity for Audio map of the Globe

2010-08-26T06:23:40Z

I've recorded the shore along northern Puget Sound and in Mt. St. Helens Volcanic National Monuement's forest. Wouldn't be anything to grab around Mt Baker National Forest. So if it hasn't, I say we start.

Answer by RedSonic01 for Audio map of the Globe

2010-08-26T07:17:37Z

I actually got sent this link today

http://soundbum.org/

which is along the lines of what you are suggesting - makes intesting listening too.

Answer by ianjpalmer for Audio map of the Globe

2010-08-26T10:41:10Z

There's already a project in full swing by the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specialreports/saveoursounds/index.shtml

Answer by fabio_iaci for Audio map of the Globe

2010-08-26T12:26:18Z

yea the one on the bbc is nice. I also use http://aporee.org/maps/ and freesound.org, the last is a huge collection of creative commons samples but using the geotag function you can visualize just the field recordings and soundscapes.

Answer by Colin Hart for Audio map of the Globe

2010-08-26T14:14:21Z

In addition to the ones previously mentioned, there are a few other projects that have been mentioned on the Phonography Users Group on Yahoo. Definitely a cool idea.

Answer by jgrzinich for Audio map of the Globe

2010-09-16T01:10:42Z

There is http://www.soundtransit.nl/ which allows you to "book" a sound journey. I've also come across many sound map projects.

Global: http://aporee.org/maps/

Prague: http://panto-graph.net/favouritesounds/

London: http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/soundmaps/

New York: http://www.nysoundmap.org/

Montreal: http://cessa.music.concordia.ca/soundmap/en/

Cologne: http://soundmap-cologne.de/

Taranto: http://sonorapuliae.altervista.org/soundmap.html

Madrid: http://www.madridsoundscape.org/

Basque country: http://www.soinumapa.net/

Galicia: http://www.escoitar.org/

Tokyo Yamanote Line Sound Map: http://www.rickbenedict.com/jams/?p=701

and probably a dozen more by the end of this week...

Answer by James Bryant for Audio map of the Globe

2010-09-16T04:54:15Z

You might like to look into acoustic ecology, which people such as Murray Schafer and Barry Truax starting studying in the '60s. http://www.acousticecology.org looks like a good resource.