setting up the "AMW" at the LBP

AMW

The “Acoustic Mirror of the World” is a sculpture/installation that provides a tactile experience of sound. It was recently located to the Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center in Chicago, a wonderful new location following its four-month run in the “Synesthetic Plan of Chicago.”

The World Listening Project (WLP) invites you to submit your field recordings and make the “Acoustic Mirror of the World into a point of access to soundscape recordings from around the world. This sculpture/installation built for the tactile experience* of sounds was recently moved to the Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center in Chicago, a wonderful new location following its four-month run in the “Synesthetic Plan of Chicago,” an exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center marking the 100-year anniversary of Daniel Burnham’s 1909 “Plan of Chicago.”

Please download and read the following submission guidelines provided below. [*In a nutshell, because the "Acoustic Mirror of the World" is activated by a stereo pair of two low-frequency drivers, the recordings that work best are those possessing significant amounts of low-frequency energy. Hence, the "tactile sensation" described in the following guidelines.]

Pictures of the “Acoustic Mirror of the World” are posted on this Flickr set.

If you are in Chicago, please visit the Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center at 1060 E. 47th Street (at the corner of Greenwood). Hours are posted on their website. Classes and public presentations relating to field recording and acoustic ecology are now being planned to happen here in the future. Please contact Eric Leonardson, e-mail <info@mwsae.org>, with your proposals and ideas.

WHY LONDON SOUND SURVEY?

The everyday sounds of London life are significant, even when they're taken for granted. They tell us about who lives here, what their hopes and conflicts are, how they enjoy themselves and what they believe in. They can take the form of fashions, from singing canaries and windchimes to boomboxes and car horns that played the first eight notes of 'Colonel Bogey'. They are shaped by developments in trade, industry and technology, by the growth of the city itself, and by demographic and social change. They announce shifts in the make-up and scattering of London's wildlife.

Stereo sound recording and playback is the first and still only really practical immersive electronic medium. Listening to a recording of the sounds of a place or event engages the imagination and recreates some of the sense of being there. To share such experiences is a satisfying end in itself.

LICENSING AND CONTRIBUTIONS

IT'D BE GREAT to hear from anyone who'd like to share their recordings with London Sound Survey. If you already have some sound files on the internet, there's no harm in finding an additional home for them here. We have a SoundCloud dropbox, which makes uploading easy. (It also provides a handy holding area while files are checked out.) The upload link appears on the home page as well; the full URL is:

http://soundcloud.com/london-sound-survey/dropbox

A Creative Commons licence (Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported) applies to all recordings on the site by default, but they remain your sounds nonetheless. The licence means people can use them for non-commercial purposes, but they must state who made them, under what licence conditions they've been reproduced, and provide a link to the London Sound Survey home page. If you prefer, you can specify a different licence of your own choosing, and do feel free to include any website URLs you'd like to appear alongside your recordings.

IM Rawes, London, May 2009

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Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology

Montréal Sound Map

AMW

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WHY LONDON SOUND SURVEY?

LICENSING AND CONTRIBUTIONS

The World Listening Project

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Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology

Montréal Sound Map

AMW

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WHY LONDON SOUND SURVEY?

LICENSING AND CONTRIBUTIONS