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• 1. bo  |  May 19th, 2009 at 2:26 pm

  hey wayne! Bernie krause is doing something along these lines – http://earth.wildsanctuary.com/ Part of his thing is to use sound to document degradation of the sonic environment…been talking with wolfie from soundgoods (who is a geographer in “real” life) about this quite a bit – using the metadata in an mp3 to tag it with geographical information. bo

• 2. wayneandwax  |  May 19th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

  interesting! i’m not suprised to hear that preservationist soundscapers (a la the neologist himself, murray schafer) are thinking along these lines. of course, i’m open to hearing our noisy, mass mediated soundscapes too, but it can be a BIG ol tent, for sure.

• 3. Canyon Cody  |  May 19th, 2009 at 4:14 pm

  I made a soundscape of Granada grafitti from images and sounds recorded on a walk when I first got to Spain two years ago, with bitsotext from Audio Culture.

  That sunday morning Jamaican radio mix of your’s appears briefly in my Dubious Bredren mix @ 1:16 — and, as you already know, the smashacre recently relocated to the 206

  is that a city full of sounds?

• 4. wayneandwax  |  May 19th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

  Ask and ye shall receive. This is pretty amazing, along these lines –
  http://www.davosoundscape.ch/index.html

  thx @madebyrobot

• 5. jean poole  |  May 19th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

  there’s a few graf kinda projects like that –
  http://www.google.com/search?q=geotag+audio+graffiti

• 6. AKA  |  May 20th, 2009 at 3:08 pm

  Hi Wayne, I’m interested in/working on superimposing geographical and sonic spaces as well. Let us know if you come across anything cool…

  My work so far consists of two directions, the SyncWalk urban-route-as-reactive-playlist project described on my homepage) and the smaller-scale audio terrain interface described here. Come by the Lab sometime and say hi!

• 7. Wolfie  |  May 28th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

  Hey Wayne,
  the topic as well reminds me always of a great art project of Michael Wesely and Kalle Lahr even it’s not a digital thing. They recorded the sound and took a long-exposure photograph at the same time at the same spot in big cities. The foto and the recorded sound is then put together on a same medium: a picture vinyl disc.

  Cheers,

  Wolfie

• 8. canyon cody  |  July 16th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

  found another cool soundscape resource @ http://www.freesound.org/geotagsView.php [googlemaps mashups are the truth! Best graffiti in Granada and Tony Hawks’ skate spots and and and

• 9. wayneandwax  |  September 16th, 2009 at 9:46 am

  this seems like an interesting application –

  GPS Beatmap from Jesse Stiles on Vimeo.

  via http://crashroots.com/2009/09/03/gps-locative-driving-control-surface/
  (via maga bo, via wolfie)

• 10. wayneandwax  |  January 7th, 2010 at 12:02 pm

  A few more addenda, mostly from a conversation among the Sound Studies Google group:

  From Ashon Crawley:

  So I figured I’d respond. Is anyone familiar with Open Sound New Orleans? It is a Sound Map of the city: http://opensoundneworleans.com/

  From Bill Boyer:

  I’m a bit late to this conversation, but I’ve done this sort of work
  in the past so I thought I would share. Four years ago, when The
  Google API was released to the public, I was teaching a class on sound
  with Jason Stanyek. We decided to create a collaborative website
  where the students could upload field recordings to share. The site
  included a google map mashup, nearly identical to the one that you can
  find at http://www.soundseeker.org. The site was created with drupal and
  could easily be formatted for viewing on a mobile device, if someone
  wanted to put in the coding time. It wasn’t an app, but you could
  also make an iPhone app out of it, I guess. And although I’ve seen
  dozens of similar sites, I haven’t yet seen one with the sort of
  regional boundaries to which Wayne referred. The closest thing I can
  think of is the grid on the realtor.com map that tells you how many
  listings are inside each square. There are loads of sound maps at the
  googlemapsmania blog: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/search/label/Sound%20Maps

  From Ben Tausig:

  “The traditional method of noise surveying is to use trained
  professionals to go to a specific site to measure and assess noise
  levels using dedicated and expensive equipment. This project aims to
  enfranchise the public by providing them with the opportunity to play
  an active role in noise measurement and assessment, as well as how
  their soundscapes are shaped.”

  http://soundaroundyou.com/

• 11. wayneandwax  |  January 8th, 2010 at 11:40 am

  Also, just stumbled upon this interesting soundwalk/artproject, presenting a parallax audition of NYC-Baghdad:

  The listener will be given a CD player (or ipod), headphones, and a military-map, which details key targets from 42nd Street to Central Park (42nd Street subway station, ABC, Fox News, CNN et al). On top of the actual map will be a thin-carbon layer with another map of downtown Baghdad, which outlines the initial route taken by U.S. troops when soldiers invaded in March of 2002. Oddly enough the route parallels the walk from 42nd Street, up 5th Avenue into Central Park at the corner of 59th Street. The listener will also be directed to begin this immersive sonic experience at the main entrance to the 42nd Street subway station where there is a high amount of civilian traffic and commercialism.
  http://www.heidiboisvert.com/sound/

• 12. wayneandwax  |  January 11th, 2010 at 10:26 am

  See also, Ben Tausig’s blog, where he rounds up all these ex.s (& more) and offers a typology too –
  http://www.weirdvibrations.com/2010/01/10/atlas-sound-a-typology-of-sound-maps/

• 13. Atlas Sound: A Typology o&hellip  |  January 19th, 2010 at 10:45 am

  [...] Many of these come from recent discussions on the Sound Studies listserv, and from an item on Wayneandwax. Have I missed any important categories? Do you know of other [...]

• 14. wayneandwax  |  February 3rd, 2010 at 2:30 pm

  Here’s yet another interesting/promising project along these lines:
  http://www.thesmalls.com/StreetSounds/

  One of these days, though, a lot of these projects will benefit from being somehow “merged” — or at least cross-browsable/searchable/layerable.

• 15. Johnpyper  |  April 8th, 2010 at 12:38 pm

  Thanks Wayne. Your platform delivers.

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