A CATASTROPHIC SILENCE

London’s first radio art station and the original inspiration for Your Favourite London Sounds. Broadcasts on 104.4Mhz in Central London and on the internet.www.l-m-c.org.uk/

London Musicians Collective

For ordering “Your favourite London Sounds” plus LMC info, monthly concert calandar, LMC archives and much more.

London’s official noise strategy and related

The Greater London Authority’s Ambient noise strategy can be found here

http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/strategies/noise/index.jsp

Highlights of ‘Sounder City’,

Londons final Ambient Noise Strategy are available for download free of charge here.

 http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/strategies/noise/downloads.jsp 

The site also has downloadable examples of ‘Sound-Conscious Urban Design’ from London, Paris, Seattle, Hong Kong and more.

London noise maps and noise mapping information  

www.noisemapping.org/

 . See the traffic noise levels in your local area shown in beguiling colours.

Children’s concentration at schools under the main Heathrow flightpaths news item.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4603189.stm 

London Green Maps  

www.londongreenmap.org

Acoustic ecology and phonography sites

Phonography.org  

www.phonography.org

  - the essential field recording site. Its email list is constantly full of practical information and open discussion by those most active in the field. Phonography is documentary sound recording with an ear towards the aesthetic and creative possibilities of environmental sound.

World Forum for Acoustic Ecology  

www.wfae.net

  the overal organisation for studies in acoustic ecology. It’s site has a comprehensive selection of links, writings and information. There is also an email list and extremely useful monthly newsletter.

The Acoustic Ecology Institute

www.acousticecology.org - anyone interested in soundscape, acousticecology and field recording should visit this site set up by Jim Cumming in paralell to his Earthear CD label  www.earthear.com

 . An invaluable resource.

Berlin.Soundscape-FM : A City of Sounds  

http://berlin.soundscape-fm.net  and SoundTransit  http://soundtransit.nl

  map based archives of sound recordings from Berlin and worldwide locations respectively, put together by Derek Holzer, Sara Kolster, Marc Boon, Gerard van Dongen. The invitation to contribute is open, so browsing the many recordings is fascinating.

Finland 100 Soundscapes

http://www.100aanimaisemaa.fi/ohjeet_en.php

Soundwalks

 http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/Soundwalk/indexandra.html 

American Society for Acoustic Ecology

http://www.AcousticEcology.org/asae

The Handbook for Acoustic Ecology  http://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/handbook/Soundwalk.html  edited by Barry Truax

Nature Sound Society

http://www.naturesounds.org/

MANCHESTER : PERIPHERAL

Alastair Dant, Tom Davis & David Gunn (UK/USA)

http://www.manchesterperipheral.com

The sounds of Manchester, for you to remix. Manchester : Peripheral is an interactive SoundMap that uses physical workshops and virtual interfaces to allow individuals to create their own “folk songs”.

Chinese phonography groups blogs:

PlayBackUnit http://sjp.blogbus.com/ http://sjp.blogbus.com/

by Lin Zhiying & Zhong Minjie (Guangzhou, Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta)

Harbin Sound Unit http://www.chinesenewear.com/harbin/

by Zhang Jun’gang & Wang Changcun Covering Harbin, Shanghai

Global Noise Online http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/

Site-hearing http://www.mattgilbert.net/sitehearing/

a website that logs places that have interesting acoustics all over the world. All these sites are plotted on a Google map, and can be sorted by type.

Spires and Steeples website Dallas Simpson

http://www.spiresandsteeples.com/ListenHere/

Sound Map sites

Tuned City http://www.tunedcity.de/

Audiolab: Soinumapa http://www.soinumapa.net/index_en.php

Radio Aporee maps http://aporee.org/maps/

Locus Sonus audio streams

http://nujus.net/~locusonus/site/streams/map.php#

Gordon Soundscape map

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/%7Ewae006gordonsoundscape.co.uk/frameset.php?id=1&username=guest

Cologne http://soundmap.akustikfilm.com/

Berlin: http://berlincast.com/

New York City http://www.nysoundmap.org/

Individual recordists and sound artists sites

Francisco Lopez

 www.franciscolopez.net/about.html

Aaron Ximm, the quiet american

www.quietamerican.com

Chris de Laurenti

www.delaurenti.net

Derek Holzer  

http://www.umatic.nl

Chris Watson  

www.chriswatson.net/

Hildegarde Westerkamp  

www.sfu.ca/~westerka/bio.html

Andra McCartney   http://andrasound.org/ 

Janet Cardiff   http://www.abbeymedia.com/Janweb/jan.htm 

Andrea Polli  http://www.andreapolli.com/ 

sound map of New York City  http://www.andreapolli.com/studio/maps/google.html 

Walter Knapp

http://frogrecordist.home.mindspring.com/

Mike Hallenbeck

http://www.juniorbirdman.com/archive

Windows project

http://www.lappareil.com/window/

Phonography from Iraq - Thomas Ashcraft

http://www.heliotown.com/Sound_From_Iraq_2006.html

http://www.silenceradio.org

Escoitar http://www.escoitar.org/?lang=en

Mississauga Sound Map http://www.yorku.ca/caseaces/soundmap/

New Adventures in Sound Art http://www.naisa.ca/opportunities.html