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The Silence of the Lands
The Silence of the Lands enables participants to map and annotate the soundscape of urban and natural environments. Participants can record and collect ambient sounds, create and share acoustic cartographies, and use them as conversation pieces of a social dialogue about the places and communities in which they live. The result is an affective geography that changes over time according to participants' perceptions and interpretations of their environmental settings.
| Pilot Study : Capturing and Sharing Sonic Experiences |
September 14, 2007
ATLAS Auditorium, University of Colorado, Boulder
From July to September, 2007 the outreach program 'Community of Soundscapes' has encouraged participants from the City of Boulder to capture and share their sonic experiences by geo-coding and mapping urban and natural sounds by means of the Sound Camera mobile application and the web application TheSilence.org. The program was supported by the CU-Boulder Outreach Committee and was a partnership with the City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) and the City of Boulder Water Quality Department.
- Brochure (5.8MB)
- Slides of the Presentation (42.5MB)
- CU-Boulder Press Release
| TheSilence.org |
Would you like to explore the sonic environment of Plymouth, Devon and Boulder, Colorado? Maybe add your own comments? If you have Firefox with the Flash Player installed, click here to listen to the sounds collected in our first trials. But please be patient if you obtain slow responses, there're still performance issues we are working on!
| More info bytes... |
October 2007
Radio interview aired on Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio.
September 2007
Public presentation of pilot results at the CU Boulder's ATLAS Auditorium.
June 2007
Project showcase at the Sonic Arts Network Festival, the hub and playground of the experimental music and sound art scene in the UK and beyond.
January 2007
Invited presentation of 'Silence of the Lands' at HP Labs Bristol.
December 2007
Blog interview on Museum 2.0.
Raising discussion...
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LEAD Chat Transcript: Wild Nature and Digital Life
with Sue Thomas and Giselle Beiguelman