PERSONAL BLOGS AND WEBSITES
Audio Field Recordings. Personal, detailed and well illustrated blog from Norfolk, UK comprising nearly forty years of sound recording (UK)
The Binaural Diaries of Ollie Hall. Binaural audio blog (UK)
Biophonie. Birds voices, natural world’s blog by Patrick Franke (Germany)
Chants d’Oiseaux en Bourgogne. The birds of Burgundy. And insects too! Recorded by Gerard Olivier (France)
Cologne Sounds. Exploring Cologne through sound. Creative Commons licensed (Germany)
Fieldsepulchra. Michael Raphael, recordist, sound designer, producer in NY (US)
Hljóðmynd.Hljóðmynd – sound image. By Magnus Bergsson (Iceland)
inovember. Malmo’s Magnus Natt och Dag recordings, incl. underwater and contact mic recordings (Sweden)
Invisible Valley. Exploring the aural world of Aburra Valley by Miguel Isaza (Colombia)
La Cosa Preziosa. Susanna Caprara, an award-winning sound artist from the south of Italy specialising in acoustic ecology (Italy)
Listening Earth. Australia in pictures, sounds and writings by Andrew and Sarah (Australia)
London Sound Survey. An impressive collection of sounds from Ian Rawes (UK)
Meditation on Sound. Sounds of Crimea recorded by Kir Belevitch (Ukraine)
Minnesota Soundscapes. Minnesota soundscapes by Curt Olson (US)
Naturophonia. Nature sounds (France)
Noise Jockey. Field recording, sound design and effects. By Nathan (US)
Noise Of Norway. Everyday life in sound (Norway)
Pterodaktyl. Everyday natural sounds recorded by Tom Williams, Devon (UK)
The Quiet American. Aaron Ximm, San-Fransisco artist. DIY advice, essays, and field recordings (US)
Railway Sounds. Mostly of N. Yorkshire Moors Railway, c.1980s (UK)
Rob Danielson. Lots of technical advise from prof. Rob Danielson (US)
Rock Scallop. Wildlife sounds of Oregon by John Hartog (US)
Seoul Sounds. Seoul audioblog by Steve Morphie (South Korea)
Sonotaphonomy. Chris Whitehead is a sound artist from North East England (UK)
Sonicskepsi. Michael Maroussas, sound editor, designer, recordist. London (UK)
Soundlandscapes. Street recordings and wise advice from Paris-based Des Coulam who spent nearly half a century sound hunting. This blog is definitely worth a visit for those interested in Paris past and present as well (France)
Sounds Like Leigh. Sounds of Leigh-on-Sea recorded by William Cheshire (UK)
Soundslikenoise. Environmental/experimental soundscapes from NNS Wales (Australia)
Sounds of the Seaside. Seaside recordings by Joe Stevens (UK)
Suffolk Birds. Birds of the Suffolk county: unspoilt coastline and big open skies (UK)
Chris Watson. Highly acclaimed nature recordist (UK)
Winnall Moors Soundwalk. Winnall Moors reserve by Sebastiane Hegarty (UK)
CANADA
Inukjuak – Inukjuak Soundmap. Sounds of Inukjuak, an off-road Inuit settlement
Montreal – Montreal Soundmap. From the Canada’s 2nd largest city. Organized by location, time, day of week, recording technique, origin, etc.
Toronto – Sounds of My City. Collaborative, community-oriented exploration of Toronto’s many sounds. Also in COMMUNITIES
Toronto and Vancouver – Urban Sound Ecology. Toronto and Vancouver soundwalks with notes on weather, temperature, equipment and time
COLOMBIA
Aburra Valley – Invisible Valley. Sounds of Aburra Valley, the Medellin River basin. Also in BLOGS/WEBSITES
GERMANY
Berlin – Berlin Wall of Sound. Follows the former real Berlin wall dividing the city in two
Germany – The German SoundMap. The German SoundMap, a website created by the Canadian composer Roer Minard
KOREA (SOUTH)
Seoul, South Korea.
NIGERIA
Lagos – Lagos Soundscape. Not a map actually but the effort is very close to mapping
POLAND
Poznan sound map
Wroclaw sound map
PORTUGAL
Portugal – Cincocidades. Sounds of the six Portuguese cities ready for mixing
RUSSIA
Moscow – Pod Mostom. Moscow’s Luzhniki & Vorobyovy Gory area map
SPAIN
Barcelona – Sons de Barcelona. Graphic representation of the recordings uploaded to freesound.org
Galicia – Escoitar. Escoitar, focusing primarily on the northwestern Galician coast
Madrid – Madrid Soundscape. Sounds of the Spanish capital, filters availble
UNITED KINGDOM
Aberdeen – Gordon District Soundscape. Sounds from around Aberdeen. Not based on Google Maps. Make sure the pop-up blocker is off
London – LSS historical map. Multi-layered historical sound map by London Sound Survey
London – LSS grid map. Grid-based map of recordings of background atmospheres and incidental noises by London Sound Survey
United Kingdom – UK Sound Map. User-generated sound map of the counrty with over 2000 recordings, curated by the British Library
UNITED STATES
New Orleans – Open Sound New Orleans. Community media project aiming at recording the New Orleans sonic environment
New York – New York Sound Map. New York sound map
New York’s Lower East Side. New York’s Lower East Side
Utah – Western Soundscape. Western States (but not limited to) wildlife recordings by The Western Soundscape Archive, University of Utah
United States – The Smalls Street Sound. The Smalls Street Sound, America’s urban ambience
WORLD
World – Aporee. Ambitious and impressive collaborative map of the world
World, Ocean – Listen To the Deep. Underwater sounds transmitted by the seafloor observatories worldwide. By the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Save Our Sounds. Recordings uploaded by the BBC World Service Listeners
Sonic Wonders. Collaborative map curated by prof. Trevor Cox of University of Salford
Soundtransit. Soundtransit, a global sound map based upon the idea of air ticket booking
Terrasound. Soundwalks visualized: the pointer moves as the listener is walking through the streets (Palestine, US, Portugal, Turkey, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Spain)
Audioboo. Post and share sounds limited to five minutes
Bandcamp. Allows building a microsite to store and share audio
Chirb.it. An easy way to post audio tweets
Freesound. Сollaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Plenty of sounds made by recordists all over the world. Hi-quality .wavs are available for download
The Ear Room. Sound artists interviewed with a focus on artistic practice
Lagos – Lagos Soundscape. One of the first African field-recording projects
Naturerecordists Yahoo!group. Discussion board for those largely interested in wildlife recording and technical advice
Nature Sounds Japan. Recordings and reviews (Japan)
Podstantsiya. Radio and Media workshop (Russia)
Sonatura. French associaton of nature recordists
Sonic Terrain. Collaborative publication devoted to field-recording. News, field reports, tips and more
Soundcloud. A popular place to store and discuss audio
Sounds Of My City. Collaborative, community-oriented exploration of Toronto’s many sounds (Canada)
Soundtrips. By fayfarers, for wayfarers (Russia)
Field Recording. Vkontakte Social network page (Russia)
Amsterdam, Holland. Video and audio of decent quality, broadcasting live from one of the crossroads in the Dutch capital. Church bells are heard on the hour.
Sylt island, Germany. North Sea island. Seagulls, wind and waves – with all the proper sounds to be heard
Rutherglen, Scotland. A small town within a few miles of Glasgow. As the owner puts it, “if you listen, you will hear the odd reveler go home after a wee drink or two after the local pubs and bars close”. There’s the music player emerging on the surface as the cam loads, can be turned off at the upper right corner of the page if the pure street sound is needed
Estonia, The Wildlife Calendar. . A decent choice of wildlife webcameras in Estonia’s parks and forests – e.g. leaves rustle, bird songs, or even the wild boars munching. Sound of the Month archive is available, though in hibernation since July 2009. (Estonian/Russian/English/Deutsch)
Locus Sonus. Live audio from a number of countries from around the world. Run by the Art Schools of Aix en Provence and Nice (Worldwide)
ABC Radio – Sydney Sidetracks. Collection of radio documantaries connected to a particular area of Sydney (Australia)
British Library Sound Archives. Accents and dialects, arts, nature, oral history recordisngs from the archives (UK)
World Listening Project. Promoting hearing and recording practice through soundwalks, community projects and media (US)
Green Field Recordings. Portuguese netlabel focusing mainly in pure field recordings. Free download under a Creative Commons licence (Portugal)
Impulsive Habitat. Publishing label focused on field recording-based works. Free download under a Creative Commons licence
Wandering Ear. Field recordings from around the world, documented and remixed by a global community of artists. Co-curated by Nathan Larson and Mike Hallenbeck. Free download under a Creative Commons licence
Audacity. Basic but efective editing tool
DPA’s Microphone University. Micropones explained
Taperssection. An online community. A good place to discuss and get an advice not only on taping but on recording technique in general
