Finished

So the brief is over and we put our work up in the link gallery for a week.
I have a newly restored love for sound recording and all things audio and thankfully now I have many new ways I can work with it.

the little film is just a compilation of all the sequences I made and you can see it on you tube here if you want.

http://youarehearav.blogspot.co.uk/

maps and postcards and other stuff

bits and pieces for the display for presentation and exhibition

postcards, riso printed

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.

scan to go  and download the You Are Hear app

You are Hear, No. 5, Salford/A57 to City centre

January 5th 2015
Salford to Shudehill

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Walk from :

Latitude:N 53° 28' 53.062"

Longitude:W 2° 17' 22.5528"   

down Regent Road, Ordsall Lane

co ordinates

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 A busy shortcut into town, this was an empty wasteland for a long time and now, like almost everything else it is being redeveloped.

 before they dug up this spot I found this awesome piece of art there last year, sadly it has been mown down for the new buildings, I have no idea who did it or why but it was such a nice thing where now there's only rubble.

Ordsall Lane, Salford

St Peter's Square, Manchester

Lower Turks Head Pub, Shudehill

Then down Water Street to Quay Street > Peter Street to St Peter's Square/ Central Library.

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Then Piccadilly Gardens where there's always something interesting going on, in one way or another.

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Then up Tib Street and round about a bit

I couldn't imagine the NQ without Tim's ubiquitous blue signage and Lemn Sissay's street poems, it would be slightly weird.

click for interactive map

Audio recording
walking from Tib St
by Cord Bar to High
Street corner, Almost Famous

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It seems I have been "working" on this project in one way shape or form for quite a while now.

   

To  High street >

Latitude:N 53° 29' 6.6286"

Longitude:W 2° 14' 16.6279"

Shudehill and a pint in the Lower Turks Head where there were, as always, very interesting conversations to be heard.

Overheard in the pub:

"Well, the wife's died now so I'm off to Vegas, aren't I!"
"Because I smelled a bit like a pot noodle, didn't I?"
1 man - "I can't eat soup, me"
2nd man "I've got a few soups in"


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And then I stopped for the day. See you next time.

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