September 22, 2006
A database of sounds
Macaulay Library's website was mentioned once in Taiwan Soundscape website. Nevertheless, there is a page that is worthy of pointing out particularly. On the left side of the page, there is a recording of a harp seal. The sound is really unexpected!
September 2, 2006
32 subwoofers are played together!
The headquater of anti-Presedent-Chen has prepared 32 subwoofers and placed them in front of the president office for protest. After the test, the effect seems to be very impressive. It would be interesting to experience it in person. However, in order to hear more great sounds in the future, it is better to cherish ears and avoid going there. ^_^
June 22, 2006
Suing the noisy neighbour-- a successful case
Asking your bad neighbour to be responsible to his noise is not easy. Nevertheless, Mr Lin has made it!
April 19, 2006
Blogs that contains audio and pictures
Ollie Hall and Justin Hardison's My Fun are both blogs that presents experiences with sound and photos. The blogs are very accessible. Perhaps you can keep your diary in this way, too!
In Ollie blog, although he says that sounds were recorded in binaural. However, please listen carefully, they seem to be in mono! ^_^
In Ollie blog, although he says that sounds were recorded in binaural. However, please listen carefully, they seem to be in mono! ^_^
February 13, 2006
The hotline for reporting noises of Taipei
More and more residents living in Taipei are not happy with the noisy
environment. Can people do nothing but take it? Of course not! You can
call the Department of Environmental Protection to complain about it.
The hotline is: 02-27206301.
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January 23, 2006
A joke
A friend sent me a very Taiwanese joke that has the rarely mentioned element in it-- sound:
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I have a colleague called Mi-Cu-Hwai. After more than 3 years of marriage, a sudden accident took this loving couple apart.
This colleage took medicine to commit suicide once. Luckily he was discovered soon and no regret was made.
After being rescued, he was absent-minded all day long and almost got his job lost. Several friends wanted to help him but without a success. Later on people had an idea, that was to persuade him to hold a calling-spirit ritural. Although it was a bit superstitious, it is a kind of psychological treatment.
People thus donated some money and hired a pretty alrigh Toaist monk (at least someone who did not make a fraud). The retural was hold in the evening. A few colleagues came to company Ku-Haui.
Two little monks set up the alter.
The old monk adjusted the mic hung on his chin and burn a few pieces of ghost paper. He started to rang the calling-spirit bell with 'lin-lin-lin' sounds.
After just a moment, the old monk suddenly grabed the table very tightly and shivered with his whole body.
The little monk standing next to him said to us with axiety: 'it's alright, it should be the ghost mounting his body...' The old monk started to shout out: 'Mi...Mi... Micu...Micu...'
Having heard his late wife calling his own name, Ku-Hwai wanted to run forward. His colleagues hold him and Ku-Hwai shouted out loudly with tears: 'Shiao-Fan... Shiao-Fan... I am here... I...'
The old monk was shivering even more seriously, he shouted out all the time: 'Mi...Mi..Mi...Mi..Micu..Micu.....Micu... Micu is leaking...' (the electricity of microphone is leaking)
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Ha-ha, sorry, it is not a very funny joke... However, with this example, I would like to ask you:
1. Who would record that 'lin-lin-lin' sounds? Would you think about recording while family and relatives holding a funeral ceremony? (In fact, I ....)
2. Is it possible to have an electric leakage from the microphone?
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I have a colleague called Mi-Cu-Hwai. After more than 3 years of marriage, a sudden accident took this loving couple apart.
This colleage took medicine to commit suicide once. Luckily he was discovered soon and no regret was made.
After being rescued, he was absent-minded all day long and almost got his job lost. Several friends wanted to help him but without a success. Later on people had an idea, that was to persuade him to hold a calling-spirit ritural. Although it was a bit superstitious, it is a kind of psychological treatment.
People thus donated some money and hired a pretty alrigh Toaist monk (at least someone who did not make a fraud). The retural was hold in the evening. A few colleagues came to company Ku-Haui.
Two little monks set up the alter.
The old monk adjusted the mic hung on his chin and burn a few pieces of ghost paper. He started to rang the calling-spirit bell with 'lin-lin-lin' sounds.
After just a moment, the old monk suddenly grabed the table very tightly and shivered with his whole body.
The little monk standing next to him said to us with axiety: 'it's alright, it should be the ghost mounting his body...' The old monk started to shout out: 'Mi...Mi... Micu...Micu...'
Having heard his late wife calling his own name, Ku-Hwai wanted to run forward. His colleagues hold him and Ku-Hwai shouted out loudly with tears: 'Shiao-Fan... Shiao-Fan... I am here... I...'
The old monk was shivering even more seriously, he shouted out all the time: 'Mi...Mi..Mi...Mi..Micu..Micu.....Micu... Micu is leaking...' (the electricity of microphone is leaking)
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Ha-ha, sorry, it is not a very funny joke... However, with this example, I would like to ask you:
1. Who would record that 'lin-lin-lin' sounds? Would you think about recording while family and relatives holding a funeral ceremony? (In fact, I ....)
2. Is it possible to have an electric leakage from the microphone?
Kuan-Hwah Business Plaza
Kuan-Hwah Business Plaza was demolished on 15 Jan 2006. I wonder if anybody recorded its environmental sounds in January. The social environment of Taiwn changes very quickly. While new sounds are generating, many sounds are disappearing at the same time. Hope everyone can cherish every opportunity of listening. If you have noticed any sound that has a social or listorical value, please record it and turn yourself as a sonic-cultural volunteer of Taiwan! Everyone Go Go Go!
December 30, 2005
Listening back sounds of 2005
2005 is coming to an end. I wonder what impressive sounds you have heard this year? In the land of Taiwan, have you discovered some new sounds that you have never heard before? For you personally, what sounds are worthy of remembering?
Wish you all happy listening, happy New Year!
December 23, 2005
Call for recorded sounds for Sound Walk , again!
The album of sound walk that is planned to post out in Jan is editing at the moment. In the CD disk, there are still some space available. Please come to join us!
The recordings you would like to submit has to be recorded within the last 2 months. All kinds of daily life sounds are welcomed. The length of the the sounds work is limited to 5 min max. Please save the files as .wav, .aif or mp3.
Please upload the sound file to http://www.yousendit.com/. If the file is samller than 10MB, you can send the file directly to wei224@hotmaill.com.
Please also send another e-mail to explain the time, place, events, recording facility and motivation of the submitted sound.
Thank you! Hope we can use this opportunity to learn from each other and make friends!
The explosion of oil fields in Britain
The oil field explosion happened on 11st Dec in Hertfordshire, UK is considered as the largest scale of explosion in the peace time of Europe. Believe it or not, there were people being in Holland and Belgium, which was 200 miles (321.8688Km) way, claimed that they could hear the explosion!
The environmental consultant Tim Wilton said, it was because that at that time, there was a layer of hot air (generated by the explorsion and the direction of the east wind) that surpressed sounds not being able to move upward. Instead, sounds return to the ground and spread out.
The changes of sounds of the nature are waiting for you to explore!
The design of a funeral director's voice message
How do you design a professional voice message for yourself or a company? For sure, it depends on WHO is your customers! Have a listen to this anonymous version made for a funeral director. It's very amusing!
December 7, 2005
Listen to the dance
Dance does not give the audience only the visual information, but also the auditory! Tap dance, river dance and the opera Stomp are good examples. Next time when you see a performance, try to listen carefully!
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December 3, 2005
The Sound Tracker: Gordon Hempton
The Sound Tracker is the official website of Gordon Hempton, who is a winner of Emmy Award for field recording. Check it out!
November 17, 2005
Sound Walk
It's November. What a cool and nice autumn! Lets take a sound walk! It is about taking a walk and at the same time, listening to surrounding sounds such as sounds of nature, traffic, people, machines, etc. The aim of this activity is to awaken peoples' awareness of the relationships between human beings and their daily-life environmental sounds. Also, the aesthetics of daily-life environmental sounds will be asserted. You are encouraged to bring any kind of audio recorder to collect sounds that are going to attract you along the walk. After the event, there will be an expert to guide you how to transfer the collected sounds into digital audio files via a computer. After people sending the files to wei224@mac.com (please do so before 10 Dec), we will produce a CD and send it to all the participants as a souvenior and an expereince-exchanger (Will be post before 10 Jan 2006). All are welcome!
Meeting Time: 2pm, 26th Nov 2005
Place: we will meet in front of Hon-Shu-Lin station (MRT red line) and stroll from Hon-Shu-Lin station via the bicycle path to the skating rink in Damsui MRT Park. The duration is no more than 30 min.
Equipment: 1) A mind and a pair of ears that enjoy listening! 2) Any kind of audio reocrder such as MD, MP3, cassette, mobile phone, pen recorder, digital audio recorder, video recorder, digital camema etc.
Note: If you cannot come to Damsui to walk with us, you can record sounds on the same day in the place where is convenient for you.
For further details, please contact: Miss Chen Tsai-Wei (wei224@mac.com) of Taiwan Soundscape (http://blog.yam.com/taiwansoundscape)
Meeting Time: 2pm, 26th Nov 2005
Place: we will meet in front of Hon-Shu-Lin station (MRT red line) and stroll from Hon-Shu-Lin station via the bicycle path to the skating rink in Damsui MRT Park. The duration is no more than 30 min.
Equipment: 1) A mind and a pair of ears that enjoy listening! 2) Any kind of audio reocrder such as MD, MP3, cassette, mobile phone, pen recorder, digital audio recorder, video recorder, digital camema etc.
Note: If you cannot come to Damsui to walk with us, you can record sounds on the same day in the place where is convenient for you.
For further details, please contact: Miss Chen Tsai-Wei (wei224@mac.com) of Taiwan Soundscape (http://blog.yam.com/taiwansoundscape)
October 28, 2005
Unsounded Sounds
Although these articles are a bit cliche, they mention about the idea that sounds do not only include the audible, but also the unsounded sounds such as the imaginary, moral, personality-related... etc. Have you every thought about some sounds in your mind and resulted in noisy thinkings?
October 24, 2005
The biggest organisation in the world for animal sound collections
Macaulay Library of Cornell Lab of Omithology claims itself as the biggest organisation that collects animal sounds (I wonder if Sound Archive in Britain is competative?). In its website, how sounds are recorded and archived are mentioned. It's worthy of visiting!
October 22, 2005
Sound Walk
Should we have a sound walk in November? It is to exchange our listening experiences. You are welcome to propose a route for walking, no matter it is in the urban or suburb area. Since it is the first time we orgniase it, should we have the walk for no more than 30 min? Are most of you living in Taipei? Men and woman, young and old are all welcome!
October 20, 2005
a blog-- Shien-Chang-Quo-Shen-Yen-Jio-Suo
O-Yan-Chao-Chao's blog Shien-Chang-Quo-Shen-Yen-Jio-Suo (means 'Live Recording Research Centre' in Chinese) introduces books about field recordings from time to time. It also talks about techniques. Please have a look!
Natural Recordist
For those who are interested in recording natural sounds, the discussion group in Yahoo-- Natural Recordist should be of help to you! I have added it in the column of [Communities and Organisations].
October 18, 2005
Sound diary-- sounds heard when waiting for the tube
I was waiting for the Circle Line (London) at the platform.
I heard the rail tracks in front of me vibrating...
The wind started to blow...
It blew a coca cola can and made it rolling on the platform...
The drink was not finished, sounds of rolling were reverberating inside the can...
... PON!! PonPon, PonPon,PonPon... (the body of the train shook forcefully on the rail track)
The train ran out of the tunnel
I marched to the left for a few more steps, chose a position that was near home, be ready to get on the train...
What sounds did you hear when you were returning home today? You are very welcome to write about it and give us a listen!
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