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Sound Clip: Research Soundscape by Charlie Mydlarz
An acoustic research team is hoping to discover how and why people react to the sound around them – whether it makes them feel relaxed or uneasy, happy or sad. You can help by taking part in the pilot survey by downloading some fun, free and easy to use mobile phone and PC software. It will allow you to record and send your valued opinions back to us. If you’d like to be involved, visit the project’s website at www.soundaroundyou.com to take part in the survey.
I wonder if Charlie Mydlarz is a member of the UK’s affiliate of the World Forum for Acosutic Ecology. The questions the soundaroundyou pose are the same ones R. Murray Schafer asks us when we go on soundwalks. When we began the World Listening Project in July, 2008 our aim was to collect recording from around the world and create an online world soundscape map. However, it was clear that so many of these already existed and we decided to collaborate with the real-time Locus Sonus Audio Streaming Project Map: http://locusonus.org/soundmap/ The WLP invites people to get involved with a community and add their web-mic to the world soundmap. I’ll forward the Sound Science Project link to the worldlistening yahoo discussion group. We’re collecting links to all the world soundmaps there as new ones are created.