quite some people always ask me what is phonography.
besides info on phonography.org
here is a pretty nice rough guide to it, a radio programme on Australian abc national radio.
explain a collaborative project sound transit and with interviews of various phonographers — Night Air presents it’s ‘rough guide’ to Phonography READ MORE here with detailed artists info
in this radio show nick mariette , one of the artists of soundtransit did the mix of the sounds.
and they also talk about cc 2.0 license, as an alternative to copy right where sounds can be reworked and relived in other creative art works. and this radio show, a mix of various sounds from artists, is a work under cc license in itself, as a practice of the license. you can listen to nick explaining what and how he did.
i wish hk would have such a radio show, or hk radio show producers and hosts are progressive enough, open enough, to do one…
radio aporee ::: maps, another nice locative sound project. again, using google map, soundscape spots from germany and US.
radio aporee ::: maps
quote from original site: radio aporee ::: maps is a project about the exploration and reoccupation of our living spaces. it collects audible material (field recordings, sounds, spoken words) by mobile phones (telephone network) or sound uploads (Internet), and connects them to the surface of a (google) map. thus, navigating through landscapes and cities by means of (hi)stories, thoughts, inventions and ideas, it may change the way we experience our daily surroundings. READ MORE HERE.
from the map, users can access the sound works/soundscape by the marks on map in the sense of space geographically speakling, or by listings (of titles of the works or keywords) in the sense of reading, or by chance (randomly), or search….
the following sound work is recorded by contact mic, pretty nice: window vibes
recorded a few days ago at staalplaat berlin: berlin based japanese artist seiji morimoto is cleaning the storefront window, sounds picked up by contact microphones for the audience inside the store.
