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Just wanted to extend a warm welcome to the Big Idea community and wider online community, and encourage you to submit a recording of your work or living space.
Real world or field recorded sounds have been focused on more heavily in the last thirty years, from the natural 'soundscapes' of Murray Schafer's acoustic ecology, to the sound environments of our cities. But, while noted artists foray into the Amazon to retrieve exotic sounds, or trek into the desert to capture the fragile dawn chorus of the animal kingdom, I think many of our most important (but overlooked) sounds, that animate our environment and assist in establishing the identity of space and place, are found much closer to home - in the home or work spaces that we spend most of our time in.
To record your room, you can use a variety of free and low-cost equipment. Windows users can utilize 'Sound Recorder' software that comes pre-installed, while those on the Mac can bring up Garageband to also easily record. If you want to crop your audio, change the volume, or make other basic edits, I'd recommend Audacity - an open source, cross platform audio editor (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/).
If you have a microphone, plug that in and start recording, or use the built-in microphone on your laptop. I'd also encourage you to listen to your space while you're recording - moving your hearing outwards to capture filtered sounds, hums, clicks, and vague tones that form the subtle sonic backdrop to your space. Then simply export the audio as WAV, AIFF, or MP3 format, and send it through. I'm looking forward to a huge variety of acoustics and background sounds from all around the world. Let's get started!
-LM
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Luke MunnLuke Munn is a New Zealand artist with a sound and socially focused practice. His work centres around re-activating, and re-presenting real world sound: site-specific performances and projects that often use the architecture of a space, objects from the audience, field recordings of the area, or historically or socially derived audio. As former Online Curator for Window, Auckland he's curated dozens of web-based shows with international artists. His projects have been featured in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spiel Festival Austria and Ohrenhoch Berlin, with recent commissions by Aotearoa Digital Arts and Creative New Zealand. His unique performances have been given in Paris, Dublin, Berlin, Chicago, and New York, amongst others.
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