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Soundscapes "World Beat" Collaboration
Help make our next Soundscapes film a global collaboration! Film your soundscape this friday on 11.11.11 and submit it to the One Day on Earth Soundscapes project. You do not need to be musically inclined to participate. This is a call for anybody and everybody participating in One Day On Earth to contribute an unique and interesting sound sample to our global soundscape.
The goal for our project is to create a visual rhythmic composition with sounds recorded around the world. These recordings can be created or found. We are interested in single isolated sound samples, naturally occurring rhythms or your own rhythmic contribution to a 111 bpm click-track.
Watch our film "Soundscapes" above and starting thinking about what your soundscape will be on 12.12.12.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Latest Activity: Jan 17, 2013
Soundscapes Prompt
On 11.11.11 record your soundscape. Consider it a scavenger and be an attentive listener to the sounds around you. The sounds you film don't need to be inherently musical, just unique and interesting to you. Also consider listening for rhythms happening naturally in the world around you. Find interesting acoustic spaces or share sounds unique to your environment that define your part of the world. Share a single sound or share many. Shoot it with a cell phone or a full crew. Don’t feel limited by your time, equipment or musicality. It’s a game for everybody. Let’s see how many places in the world we can hear together. Watch our film "Soundscapes" above to see an illustration of the concept.
The video you capture should isolate the image of what is producing the sound. When recording to the click track use headphones or ear-buds and try to avoid hearing the click track on your recording . Try to capture a clean and isolated sound recording of your sample and when possible use an audio recorder that is separate from your video camera. If recording with only an on-board camera mic get close to the sound you are sampling but be careful not to capture distorted audio.
It's okay to show the sound recording equipment and the sound recordist in the shot. The idea is to show the collaboration of people recording image and sound samples from around the world so be sure to feature yourselves and your environment visually.
Go to http://soundcloud.com/yourfriendtk/soundscapes-world-beat-click to download the 111 bpm click-track
Or go to http://www.metronomer.com/ to generate a 111 bpm click-track mp3.
Please upload your submissions promptly after 11.11.11 to provide ample time for us to incorporate your sound samples into our film.
Below are some ideas to get you thinking about your soundscapes. Contribute to this scavenger hunt idea list by sharing your own ideas in the comments.
Have fun,
The Soundscapes Team
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SINGLE ISOLATED SOUNDS
Bell
Car starting
Door closing
Crowd cheering
Single vocal or instrument note
Laughter
Waves
Whistling teapot
Doorbell / Knocking
REPETITIOUS SOUNDS / NATURALLY OCURRING RHYTHMS
Dripping faucet
Hammering at construction site
Beeping ATM, crosswalks and trucks backing up
Bouncing on a trampoline
Heart beat / heart-rate monitor
Passing train / train crossing bell
Breathing
Insect / animal sounds: crickets, frogs, birds, cicadas, etc...
Idling engine
Boiling water
CLICK-TRACK CONTRIBUTIONS
Clap
Stomp
Bang on found object
Beat boxing
Footsteps
Dribbling basketball
Typing
Tap Dancing
Tapping a pencil
Solicit a street performer
INTERESTING ACCOUSTIC SPACES
Tunnels
Parking garages
Over passes
Elevators
Forests
Closets
Hallways
Church Sanctuaries
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Comment by Sibylle Meder on January 17, 2013 at 1:12pm
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In the end, I didn't only include the sounds but got some lovely music from NY State based composer Tom Mangano... But those sound snippets are still available if anyone is interested.
Hipstamovie #2 from Sibylle Meder on Vimeo.
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Thank you, Ashley! I've started. It's going to be a meta-doc: a documentary about shooting documentary bits to document One Day on Earth ;-) ... or something like that.
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Comment by Ashley Tantillo on December 11, 2012 at 7:03pm
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That sounds awesome Sibylle! Have a great 12.12.12!
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Hey! I didn't know this existed already! I was planning to do something similar tomorrow: to shoot a Hipstamovie consisting entirely of stills shot with the Hipstamatic app and - in lack of a music track to edit to - to make my own by using the sounds I find. So could do both and contribute here, too. Let's see... Anyone else planning to do a soundscape tomorrow?
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Hi everyone! 12.12.12 is just around the corner, does everyone have a soundscapes project in mind for this year? There's so much going on in the world, we need to record it!
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Comment by Alexey Dvoeglazov on December 8, 2011 at 12:37am
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Filming the Wooden spoon players ensemble
In the film is shown the working training of the children’s ensemble of wooden spoon playing. To make the report about how the filming day of the project «One Day on Earth» goes came the journalists of domestic television.
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Comment by Catherine Schuelke on November 20, 2011 at 3:02pm
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The sound of water running from a sink faucet.
http://vimeo.com/32381549
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Comment by alon farago on November 18, 2011 at 5:29pm
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http://vimeo.com/32168309
this is my video with souns for soundscape - it is from the old city of jerusalem.
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http://vimeo.com/32275936
Spatula banging and scraping in pot while cooking eggs.
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Comment by Kirk Andrew Henry on November 17, 2011 at 12:22pm
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11.11.11. Soundscape. Beach moonset, UNESCO World Heritage Site on the caribbean island of St Lucia, capturing the rhythm of the sea and wind, crickets, frogs, morning birds and local fishermen. This natural soundscape is under threat in 2012. No fancy equipment or microphones, just me and my camera. http://vimeo.com/32268206
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