Maps of sounds (sound maps) are called geographic maps, on which various kinds of audio information are applied. Today we will talk about several such services.
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This is a service with which you can listen to radio stations from all over the world. It was launched in 2016 by engineers from the Netherlands Institute for Image and Sound as part of a research project for the university. But in early 2019, one of the authors founded the company Radio Garden and now maintains a web application.
On Radio Garden you can listen to , or Korean pop music (). They even show on the map (so far the only one) and . By the way, you can help expand the geography - to suggest a radio station, you need .
Screenshot: / Playing: in Berlin
Favorite stations can be added to favorites to make it easier to return to them. Although with the help of Radio Garden it only makes sense to look for an interesting radio - it is better to listen to music on the official pages of audio streams (direct links are given to them in the upper right corner of the screen). After some time running in the background, the web application starts consuming a lot of resources.
The project was launched in 2006. Its task is to build a global sound map of the world. The site works on the principle of "crowdsourcing", that is, anyone can replenish the collection of sounds. The rules that the site imposes on the quality of audio recordings can be found (for example, the bitrate should be 256/320 Kbps). All sounds are licensed under a Creative Commons license.
Screenshot: / Recordings in Moscow - many of them were made in the metro
Project participants upload audio recordings with the sounds of city parks, subways, noisy streets and stadiums. On the site you can listen to how it "sounds" , in Poland and . You and pour a cup of coffee . Someone attached a recording of the Mass, .
The site has a fairly convenient search - you can search for both certain sounds and specific places on the map.
Designed by Glenn MacDonald. He is an engineer from The Echo Nest, a company that Spotify and develops machine listening technology.
The Everynoise "map" is a bit unusual and significantly different from the previous two. Audio information on it is presented in the form of a "directional" . This cloud contains the names of about 3300 thousand musical subgenres. All of them were identified by a special machine algorithm that analyzed and categorized about 60 million tracks on Spotify.
Screenshot: / The most "smooth" instrumental compositions
At the bottom of the page are instrumental genres, and at the top - electronic. On the left are βsmoothβ compositions, and on the right are more rhythmic ones.
Among the selected genres, you can find both quite familiar ones like Russian rock or punk rock, and unusual ones, for example, viking metal, latin tech house, zapstep, buffalo ny metal and cosmic black metal. You can listen to sample songs by clicking on the corresponding tag.
To keep up to date with new genres that Everynoise developers regularly highlight, you can subscribe project on Twitter.
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