Earlier this year I interviewed Stuart Fowkes about his intriguing website, Cities and Memory. Fowkes’s site gathers field recording submissions from sound artists worldwide and places them on a soundmap. In an interesting twist, the site also introduces a collaborative aspect: other artists can remix the recordings and present the two versions side by side. […]
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Chris Watson Soundmap Project
One thing that’s fascinating about field recordings is that they demand imagination. What do I mean? Hearing sound effects is almost always done at a different location than the original recording. This means that hearing these clips requires a contribution only the listener provides. We match what we hear to our past experiences, or create […]
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Sound Effects and Space: Soundmap Roundup
I love meshing field recording with travel. Foreign sound effect atmospheres can give a taste of what it’s like to be in places you’d otherwise never experience, like France, Spain or Greece. The best ones can immerse you deep in the environment. When you add these sound clip ambiences to a map, the immersion becomes […]
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