On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 11:37:58AM -0700, Rich Gibson wrote: > Some situations where point recording doesn't work well: > > - While driving. It is flat out dangerous to mess with a device. > We all do it, with cell phones and the like, but that doesn't make > it right.
Interesting discussion all, thanks :) Just to put some meat on dem bones... http://www.invisible5.org "Invisible-5 is a self-guided critical audio tour along Interstate 5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It uses the format of a museum audio tour to guide the listener along the highway landscape. ABOUT Invisible-5 investigates the stories of people and communities fighting for environmental justice along the I-5 corridor, through oral histories, field recordings, found sound, recorded music, and archival audio documents. The project also traces natural, social, and economic histories along the route." The recordings are tightly edited into a wonderful radio-like soundscape timed to accompany your journey along the Freeway. If your journey time is average - about 5 hours, the entire series of recordings should more or less co-incide with the locations you're passing through, but wouldn't it be interesting if the recordings were non-linear, geo-referenced, capable of being mapped onto a projected journey that might criss-cross these areas. Obviously you'd need predictions about when you'll arrive at certain points in the recordings that mention the sites you'll be passing through at that time, but you could probably hack together something fairly accurate with a bit of time and experimentation. On a more walking-tour tangent, I was thinking about the way you can sometimes join in a group of tourists walking around your city when they have a guided tour. If you approach the crowd and join it momentarily, you can catch a snippet of the tour, which you can walk along with for a while. I sometimes do this when the tour is passing somewhere interesting in London or the out-of-work actor taking the group seems interesting and engaging. If you had a series of points and vectors describing your movement while recording was taking place, you could use variable volume to draw the listener along with an invisible tour guide. Once you get within 'earshot' of the recording path, you could hear the closest snippet of the recording, fading out unless you chase it and keep following it. Of course wandering out into the traffic following an invisible tour guide is always a hazard to be mitigated against (cut in: ACHTUNG! You are now approaching BIG ROAD!) We (the people speak: http://theps.net) are doing some work on a should-be-location-based audio project: http://traffic-island.co.uk in San Jose in July/August, and would love to combine some of the ideas I've heard here about CMS and GIS with this thread about georeferencing audio files. Is anyone working on anything similar? And.. is anyone likely to be in San Jose between the 30th July and the 5th August? We've sorted out a workspace at the San Jose History park to develop these ideas and make some field recordings on the local buses...if anyone would be interested in joining us.. get in touch! Cheers, Saul. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
