Sharing Soundscape Awareness & Advocacy

June 2009 Blog Posts (4)

Support ze Sounds! Wear ze Shirt!

What's on your shirt?!? Be an 'early adopter' of soundscape support in this nifty, high-quality black T and share your support with the world! The new Organic Cotton, Earth-friendly, Soundscape Support Team T-shirt, is now available at the WildStore. 25-bucks gets the T with FREE shipping and handling. A portion of proceeds, of course, go to outreach efforts to help SAVE THE SOUNDSCAPE. Men's and… Continue

Added by Katherine (Kat) Krause on June 20, 2009 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

Birds in cities singing louder and higher

Here's an article of interest to all who record or listen to bird song. City dwelling birds may be speaking a different language than their country cousins to compensate for human noise pollution.

From the BBC...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/8079539.stm

Added by Gina Farr on June 10, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Natural Sound in Germany

We've had a wonderful visit from German audio/naturalists and soundscape supporters Volker and Claudia Widmann. Their colorful tales of sounds from the German forests entertained us all through lunch. Check out his wonderful website at: http://songsfromthewood.de/

Added by Katherine (Kat) Krause on June 9, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Surfing with Soundscape

Amazing what one can find out there surfing around in SearchLand: Now the French luxury fashion designer has launched a high-end signature Soundwalk for cutting edge fashionistas -- with good ears. It's quite an amazing Mp3 construct of audio art, location tagging, and travel guide (and branding). Check it out at www.LouisVuittonsoundwalk.com

Added by Katherine (Kat) Krause on June 6, 2009 at 9:54am — No Comments