Blog : sound

Busboîtescartesmaps
2008-10-28 16:34:48 - by Nicolas Malevé

Post boxes are a familiar repetitive phenomenon in the urban landscape. Even when postoffices become privatized and disappear, these boxes remain firmly planted in the urban soil. Busboîtescartesmaps invites us to validate these entities as more than just utilitarian tools. Drifting from one box to another, the walks propose to climb them, to explore their musical qualities, to listen to the stories that echo from their interiors. Among other things the walks contribute to a collective mapping in which the trace of one walk echoes the existence of other walks. You can participate in the walks starting from Recyclart, where also the communal map can be consulted, and also the Atlas of subjective and collaborative maps of Brussels.

Postbussen zijn een bekend wederkerig aspect van het urbane lanschap. Zelfs nu posterijen en agentschappen geprivatiseerd worden en langzamerhand steeds meer verdwijnen, blijven de bussen ferm gewordteld in de stadse aarde.

Busboîtescartesmaps nodigt ons uit om de bussen te herwaarderen als meer dan enkel nuttige gereedschappen. De wandelingen onderzoeken de bussen als potentiele muziekinstrumenten, als stadselementen die beklommen,kunnen worden en als dragers van verhalen en herinneringen. De wandelingen dragen bij aan een collectieve audio-mapping die de verschillende onderwerpen van de wanddelingen met elkaar verbindt. Je kunt meewandelen vanaf Recyclart, waar ook de gemeenschappelijke kaart kan worden bekeken / beluisterd, samen met de Atlas van subjectieve kaarten van Brussel.

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Les boîtes postales implantées dans le paysage bruxellois sont des points de repère familiers. Si les bureaux de poste disparaissent graduellement avec la privatisation, les boîtes, elles, résistent et jalonnent le territoire. Busboîtescartesmaps est une invitation à prendre ces boîtes pour plus que de simples conteneurs utiles. En dérivant de l’une à l’autre, les différentes ballades proposées en feront des montagnes à escalader, des instruments sonores ou des antennes déclencheuses d’histoires et de narrations. Ces ballades feront en outre l’objet d’une mise en carte commune où chaque trajet pourra faire écho à un autre. On pourra participer à cette cartographie en partant de Recyclart, qui abritera aussi la carte commune ainsi qu’un espace de consultation dédié à un Atlas des cartes subjectives et collaboratives de Bruxelles.

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Amphibian organilectric
2008-05-23 11:16:21 - by Nicolas Malevé

On the weblog of Yolande Harris, you will find the details of her project Satellite Sounders, which «maps» satellites positions into audio.

Here is a note she wrote to explain her ideas on mapping

by "mapping" i refer to decisions of how to transform data into sound
this is a relatively simple example: GPS data is limited in its ranges and frequency of change the sound is limited by the computing power of the small device

i need identify the prominent characteristics of movement and change in the data and map this to suitable changes in audio. but to do this I need to have an idea of the density of the soundfield I will make, how perceivable changes in data will be, how the characteristics of movement will be traceable in the final sound.

the data has specific numerical ranges and limits. the sound is only limited by human hearing range and distortion of the audio signal. so choices have to be made at the specific level of numerical transformations into audio processes and the final audible result will be particular to those choices.

the sonification of data implies an obligation to choose sounds, and engage in the sonic as composition and as a field of emotive potential to the listener, basically pure sound overlayed or underlayed with patterns of meaning that may or may not be apparent in the audible experience.

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Justin Benett - soundcartography ?
2007-07-15 19:13:18 - by Véronique

Selection :

Noise map

Europa : map european borders with sound

City’s Anatomy (without sound)