5/31/2023 0 Comments Top ten iconical soundsHundreds of sounds from across Mexico, with a particular focus on Mexico City – easy to navigate and impressive in its range, sounds are divided into categories like music, natural sounds and so on. There are also iOS and Android apps to accompany the project, and secondary maps measure things like the number of noise complaints per region of Glasgow. Here, as well as facts like the decibel level recorded at the location, is an aggregate ‘annoyance score’ of how irritating (or relaxing/pleasant) users find the sound – you can rate the sound out of ten and join the experiment from the comfort of your own home. Other parts of the map offer a 360 degree panoramic photograph with the accompanying soundscape playing. The Glasgow 3D Sound Map looks at environmental sound from a noise pollution standpoint – on its Think About Sound map, sounds are logged with the emotional state of the recordist before they heard the recorded sound (often ‘calm’), and again afterwards (often ‘agitated’!). Once you’ve found a sonic voyage that makes you happy, you can even download the sound files and take it with you on the go, see a map view of your journey, or email the selection to a friend. You choose a starting point and a destination from their impressive bank of more than 2,000 field recordings, along with the number of stopovers, and the site assembles a unique sonic voyage for you. Sound Transit is a unique user experience among sound maps, setting you off on a journey of sound. You can search for sounds by location, when they were uploaded, season, day of the week and more, with each sound offering up details as to who recorded it, how, what was going on and even what kit they used to capture the sound.Įven better, the project is open to contributors, and sounds are available to download under a Creative Commons Share Alike licence. Sounds are colour-coded by category, and for each you can record your own notes, whether they’re memories the sound evokes for you or the stories you experience when you listen to each sound.Ī great example of a super-detailed single location sound map, intended as a constantly-shifting sonic time capsule of the city. While it may lack the volume of sounds contained in the maps above, the user interface is intuitive and beautiful, a joy to navigate – and the quality of sounds of there is really high, capturing the spirit of the city wonderfully. And if you’re reading this before 21 September 2015, you can take part in their latest project to map the sounds of Britain’s shores. There are sound maps of global accents, traditional music, wildlife sounds and many others. Some use the Library’s own vast resource of sounds, but the most interesting invite the general public to contribute sounds from wherever they are.įamously, from 2010 to 2011 they collected more than 2,000 recordings from ordinary people across the UK to create a participatory sound map of the entire country. The British Library undertakes various sound projects over the years, often with their own individual sound maps. The scale of it is also unbelievable – with over 30,000 recordings and over 1,150 contributors, it’s truly a global public service that Udo has created and offered to the world. I love that it’s open and participatory, and you can take elements of it and use them elsewhere, creating your own mini sound maps to use in other projects. The big end-of-level boss of sound maps, a map crossed with a 24-hour radio station playing field recordings from around the world. Truly inspiring stuff, which you can lose hours looking around. Ian also takes the sounds beyond straightforward sound mapping into new areas like a new version of the Underground map for London’s waterways, or a beautiful interactive diagram of the sounds from Tower Bridge. The range of projects undertaken on the site are fascinating, from the epic 12 Tones of London travails to the presentation of sounds from the British Library. It’s not just the extremely comprehensive general sound maps, which capture the diversity of a metropolis like London, as well as aspects like its waterways and historical London sounds. What Ian Rawes has achieved with the London Sound Survey and its myriad ways of presenting the sounds of London is remarkable. So here’s a rundown of ten of our favourite sound maps, with a few details about what we think makes them different, special and worth your valuable listening time! When we first started Cities and Memory, and in the many months since then, the following collection of sound maps has been a great source of inspiration and pleasure to us. Published on: 28th July 2015 Published in: Guides
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