- Soundmap
A soundmap is a form of
locative media [cite web
url=http://www.locative-media.org/
title=Locative Media
publisher=www.locative-media.org
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url=http://www.dispatx.com/show/item.php?item=2036
title=Dispatx | Improvised Maps | NYSoundmap
publisher=www.dispatx.com
accessdate=2008-09-22
last=
first=] that links a place and its sonic representations. It is an example of the personalized map content described alternately asweb mapping andneogeography . Soundmaps convey thesoundscape of a place, often by organizing multiple soundmarks [cite web
url=http://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/handbook/Soundmark.html
title=Soundmark
publisher=www.sfu.ca
accessdate=2008-09-22
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first=] or "community sound [s] which is unique, or possesses qualities which make it specially regarded or noticed by the people in that community" in a web-based map.Our sense of hearing, which has until recently been underappreciated as a means of representing data, can be used to expand the representational repertoire of cartographic design....Sound, in other words, provides us with more choices for representing data and phenomena and thus more ways in which to explore and understand the complex physical and human worlds we inhabit.
—John Krygier, "Making Maps with Sound" [cite web
url=http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/making-maps-with-sound/
title=Making Maps with Sound « Making Maps: DIY Cartography
publisher=makingmaps.wordpress.com
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External links
Soundmaps
* [http://aporee.org/maps/ Radio Aporee Soundmap]
* [http://berlin.soundscape-fm.net Berlin SoundMap]
* [http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Soundmarks_Browse.aspx Chicago Public Radio Soundmarks]
* [http://nujus.net/%7Elocusonus/site/streams/map.php Locustream SoundMap]
* [http://opensoundneworleans.com Open Sound New Orleans Collaborative Soundmap]
* [http://homepage.mac.com/brettbecker/soundscape/pugetsoundscape.html Puget Soundscape]* [http://www.anaesthetic.ca/soundmap/ Soundmap of Kitchener-Waterloo area of Ontario, Canada]
* [http://www.soundseeker.org SoundSeeker NY SoundMap]
* [http://earth.wildsanctuary.com/ Wild Sanctuary]
* [http://www.tenement.org/folksongs/client Tenement Museum of NYC Lower East Side Soundmap]
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