I am making a couple of little compilations of the sounds and images I have been recording. This one is busy and noisy sounds with pictures of quiet places.
watch on youtube HERE
Showing posts with label field recordings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label field recordings. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 February 2015
compilation
I am making a couple of little compilations of the sounds and images I have been recording. This one is busy and noisy sounds with pictures of quiet places.
watch on youtube HERE
Saturday, 31 January 2015
Manchester Libraries, recording quiet places
So one of the initial ideas I had for this project was to map quiet places, create a map of quiet places to go around the city or find ways to create and find quiet space in a noisy city. Manchester is not a city with a great deal of parks large enough for quiet reflection, any significant green space in the city centre or anywhere really that can be said to be "quiet", and I don't mean silent, of course just, you know, not on the street sound levels.
So, of course I thought to start the quiet map in the incredible collection of libraries we have here.
January 28th
-Manchester Central Library 53.4781° N, 2.2447° W
-John Rylands Library -2.2484600W, 53.4802800N
-Portico Library 53.479721N,-2.240696W
So, of course I thought to start the quiet map in the incredible collection of libraries we have here.
January 28th
-Manchester Central Library 53.4781° N, 2.2447° W
-John Rylands Library -2.2484600W, 53.4802800N
-Portico Library 53.479721N,-2.240696W
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| Reading room, Central Library |
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| Outside in the music library area |
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| One of the old original pin boards they kept when the library was renovated |
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Sound Map
Here is an interactive map of a selection of the recordings I have been making, I will keep updating it as I go.
Click the place markers for pictures and sound.
SOUNDMAP
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Here are a few other really excellent sound maps made by people all over the world, starting with the one at Salford Uni that you can submit to.
here
here this is beautiful, all natural sounds.
here you can submit to this one too, I have put a couple on here
here are the British Library's sound map archives
And I have created a map here where I am encouraging people to submit their own sound clips, I'm very interested in what people like to hear. If you'd like to participate then please click on the additions tab on the top left and select add marker detailed and it will let you upload a picture if you like and an MP3 (it doesn't like wav files)
Sunday, 18 January 2015
So far
So far I have been recording sound everywhere I go, a bit of video, taking lots of photos and making notes.
Up til now I have been using the Edirol recorder, a really neat unit and very easy to use with great sound, but as it is owned by the AV departmnet at uni and has to go back eventually, I bought my own Tascam DR-05 unit and it is, I have to say even better on sound quality, very sensitive and picks up everything which is good, it also has a built in dB meter as well as a lot of other useful functions.
I also made this little app just to see what would happen, if you like you can download it and keep up to date on the project ( because of course who would not want to) and you can submit your own audio clips too, I will add these to a map with the GPS co ordinates in order to create something similar to this.
If you would like to participate, please send me a sound clip of your location along with GPS co ordinates of where it was captured and it will be added to the map.
It has been interesting so far and I have found that I am hearing and listening to sounds more closely and separating them from the greater cacophony.
I have also learned that I am not so alone in my auditory dislikes as I had thought, take the little survey and add your voice ( results published very soon)
I have found some interesting things to read and watch such as this Irish film about a sound recordist, called Silence.
Articles, resources and projects about field recording, listening and hearing such as this and this
have been interesting.
At this point I am looking at different ways to present and use the sounds, how they may be used in a non audio way and what sort of mapping ideas are relevant in order to get useful information out of the recordings.
It is important to me to look at how sounds are part of the cities we live in and how we can improve these places and our own well being by dealing with how sound enters and inhabits spaces, indeed by how we introduce and engage with sound when we are there.Sound affects us fundamentally and it is important to be aware of this. Just consider this article for example.
Up til now I have been using the Edirol recorder, a really neat unit and very easy to use with great sound, but as it is owned by the AV departmnet at uni and has to go back eventually, I bought my own Tascam DR-05 unit and it is, I have to say even better on sound quality, very sensitive and picks up everything which is good, it also has a built in dB meter as well as a lot of other useful functions.
I also made this little app just to see what would happen, if you like you can download it and keep up to date on the project ( because of course who would not want to) and you can submit your own audio clips too, I will add these to a map with the GPS co ordinates in order to create something similar to this.
If you would like to participate, please send me a sound clip of your location along with GPS co ordinates of where it was captured and it will be added to the map.
It has been interesting so far and I have found that I am hearing and listening to sounds more closely and separating them from the greater cacophony.
I have also learned that I am not so alone in my auditory dislikes as I had thought, take the little survey and add your voice ( results published very soon)
I have found some interesting things to read and watch such as this Irish film about a sound recordist, called Silence.
Articles, resources and projects about field recording, listening and hearing such as this and this
have been interesting.
At this point I am looking at different ways to present and use the sounds, how they may be used in a non audio way and what sort of mapping ideas are relevant in order to get useful information out of the recordings.
It is important to me to look at how sounds are part of the cities we live in and how we can improve these places and our own well being by dealing with how sound enters and inhabits spaces, indeed by how we introduce and engage with sound when we are there.Sound affects us fundamentally and it is important to be aware of this. Just consider this article for example.
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