The importance of silence
iPhone application to find quiet places. More info about project and author here.
Europe’s noise map. European Environment Agency has launched map, revealing which European citizens are exposed to excessive acoustic pollution. More info about project and author here.
Projects which synthesize or transform existing soundscape
RoadMusic by Peter Sinclair. All sounds are generated by mini computer equipped by camera which captures information about landscape and accelerometers: movement about the car (curves, bumps, acceleration and breaks). No sound recorded in machine, they are produced when car is moving.
Variable 4 is an 8-speaker outdoor sound installation which translates weather conditions into musical patterns in real time. Using meteorological sensors connected to a custom software environment, the weather itself acts as conductor, navigating through a map of 24 specifically-written movements.
The Tank is incidentally found reverberant space. It creates specific and unique acoustic space and radically transforms sounds.
Sound Castle is performance made during Acoustic Architecture festival. Site-specific exploration project where musicians used existing urban space and augmented it’s natural acoustic features with performance.