Las cartografías sonoras pueden ser en ocasiones modelos interesantes para mostrar trabajos fonográficos o para realizar proyectos en grupo basados en la grabación de paisajes sonoros.

Pero, a parte de aquellos mapas específicos como Escoitar.org, Soinumapa.net, Sons de barcelona o Andalucía soundscape la tarea de geolocalizar sonidos no suele resultar una tarea demasiado fácil y las opciones son algo escasas y engorrosas.

Para los últimos talleres realizados por Escoitar.org/noTours, Horacio González ha desarrollado una herramienta muy útil y bastante sencilla de utilizar que permite aprovechar los sonidos que subimos a SoundCloud y la política de grupos para montar en menos de 15 minutos un sistema de cartografía sonora colaborativa. Esperamos poder desarrollar una versión basada en archive.org para futuros talleres.

Espero que os sea de utilidad.

A continuación podéis encontrar el link con las instrucciones, la descarga de código y la info general.

https://github.com/horaciogd/PlayerMap

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PlayerMap is a SoundCloud mapping mashup initially developed for an Escoitar.org workshop relating Goethe Institut project «Einander zuhören – Stadt-(Ge)Schichten«, to create a sound map of Athens in collaboration with students from Athens School of Arts and students from Folkwang Art University in Essen. The idea behind PlayerMap was to provide a friendly user framework to publish all the soundscapes recorded by the students and to share them between different city teams.

Being some of the participants students with no previous experience in field recording or sound technology and having in mind the possibility of creating a small collaborative map of each city, we decided to get advantage SoundCloud API to design a system that would allow to create sound maps containing the tracks published in any group, by simply adding to each recording, tags including geographical information.

After the final presentation of Athens Sound Map in an exhibition of one of the collectives participating in the project, we have just published the mashup under GNU GPL license so anyone can use it. Our intend for the near future is to continue its development, for example we want to enable the use of Archive.org instead of SoundCloud. We will be happy to receive workshop proposals and collaboration suggestions to fund further development.