Sound Maps

A couple of weeks ago I went to a talk about sound mapping, it is a concept that I find really fascinating in all its forms which range from the very literal phonographical document of the sound of a space such as the maps created by Ian Rawes (http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/soundmaps/) to those which seek to utilise sound as a less literal form of data representation such as the LHCsound project which is sonifying the movement of particles within the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/index.html).

Here are a couple more interesting articles/writings on the subject of sound mapping and sonification:

http://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/sonification/documents/Chapter1.pdf

http://lhcsound.wordpress.com/

http://makingmaps.net/2008/03/25/making-maps-with-sound/

and of course R. Murray Shafer’s book ‘The Soundscape’ (
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soundscape-Sonic-Environment-Tuning-World/dp/0892814551/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332595003&sr=8-1)