We´ve just received a message from BJNilsen, performing on October 9th (with a dedicated audio piece for Future Places), and speaking the following morning. He would like us to bring ideas on this question:
“Can the form of field recordings and audio documentation rise the awareness of local environment and nature in general?”
Discuss.
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Perhaps everyone should read this article on the subject:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/a-listening-par.html
It’s an insightful perspective on what is being done, and certainly an inspiration.
There’s a radio DJ in Austin who occasionally plays frog calls from the classic Smithsonian Folkways collection Sounds of North American Frogs (1957).
When I’d heard a few of them it dawned on me that the night exteriors in American movies, no matter where they’re supposed to be set, usually use sounds collected in Southern California. Our Texas sounds are quite different. That got me paying attention, and now when I hear audio that’s actually recorded here, I notice it.
A small thing, but sometimes documentation can help us see and hear things from our surroundings that we would otherwise ignore.
There’s a radio show on Rádio Zero (http://www.radiozero.pt) about the artists exploring the relation between sound and space. It’s called Sound of Space and it’s from Paulo Raposo.
Here’s another link worth checking out: http://soundtransit.nl/
Tour the world through soundscapes ( ;
Then may I also sugest one of the projects submited to Future Places:
http://soa-te.radiozero.pt
The purpose is to sound portrait the University campus and to promote derivative works from the collected sounds.
Another interesting project is, off course, freesound: http://www.freesound.org/
How can you believe your ears when they’re not yours ?
by giving others some credit?