World Listening Project
I’m working on a new project initiated by Dan Godston called the World Listening Project. What is it?
The goals of the World Listening Project are to collect field recordings from every country on earth, to create a sonic map of the world, and to archive those recordings on a website. Many of the recordings for WLP have already been recorded, but many more will be recorded and archived. The WLP website is a work in progress, and it will be part of the Third Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (October 1–12, 2008). It will continue to be developed into the future.
The Chicago Calling festival was started by Dan Godston. A Yahoo! Group called worldlisteningproject is where a large and growing number of people are joining together on the Internet to realize the World Listening Project. Among the group’s esteemed members we have the natural soundscape researcher and recordist, Bernie Krausse. He is a musician, ecologist, and author who has been working in the field of natural soundscape recording since 1968. Bernie is author of several books, the latest is Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of Natural Soundscapes (Wilderness Press, 2002). Visit his website Wild Sanctuary to learn more about his work and media company. Bernie has a sound map here: http://earth.wildsanctuary.com/
In addition to the worldlisteningproject Yahoo! Group, Dan Godston has started a World Listening Project blog: http://worldlisteningproject.blogspot.com/
Use this link to join the Yahoo! Group:
Visit this link for an update on the World Listening Project.
Tags: audio, berniekrausse, chicago calling, groups, map, nature, phonography, recording, sound, soundart, soundscape, wild
September 20th, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Hi Eric,
I am writing this email at the recommendation of Roger Malina at Leonardo.
I am a digital frame maker working with illustrator artists.
My frames are virtually connected to live entities in the Internet of Things space. The frame senses changes in the live entity by using sensors attached to tags, like a temperature sensor in the very simple example. The frame reads sensor values in real time and chooses from the set of hosted illustrations the one that represents the current entity state according to the artist’s story telling. An example of such interactive digital art is the Temperature Avatar that can be seen live at http://temperatureavatar.com/
Here is an article written by the artist about his work:
http://www.underworldmagazines.com/interview-with-tag4m-com-a-giveaway-for-one-lucky-reader/
The digital frame is a cloud instrument as described at http://www.tag4m.com/. Cloud Instruments and associated widgets are very powerful tools that can be used to create interactive art. I know you are doing similar things but with sound as presented in this blog. Please take a look at the digital frame. I am hoping that this concept can be used in your art and research, maybe also as a teaching tool a Scientific Visualization class. I am looking for artists who want to build art avatars connected to other sensors than sound, or if sound is the main research topic for you, then we could build a sound_tag that contains a microphone and use this tag with the avatar digital frame as a kit for artists who want to create art without needing to code.
Best regards,
-marius
September 21st, 2010 at 8:10 PM
Hi Marius,
There’s a conference coming up called Sound:Site in the UK that seems to be relevant to the Cloud Instruments. There is a post about on the WLP website: http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/?p=834
All the best,
Eric