Taiwan Soundscape

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!

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 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!

As more and more sounds are happening in our living environment, the volume of our voice is increasing. Have you noticed that? Have you been wondering if our listening ability has been affected? Is it you talking too softly or I cannot hear you well? ^_^
According to BBC, Dr John Low from RNID (The Royal National Institute for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People), UK has designed a way for the general public to do a test on hearing at home. It also tells you how to access further treatment.
Curious? All you need to do is to make a phone call from a house-line (not applied on mobile phone), dial: +44 (0)8456005555 and then follow the instructions. The call will take 5 min. (Hello! Think carefully, it's an international call to the UK!)

The sound artist Pete Stollery does field recordings around Gorden District in Aberdeenshire in Scotland, UK. He joints environmental sounds and the local map to produce the work. You can now use internet to listen to sounds around Gorden. Enjoy it! (remember to have the pop-up function enabled in your browser!)

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!

Hosted by Peter Cusack and Isobel Clouter, the programme Vermilion Sounds in Resonance FM104.4 will broadcase Taiwanese cicada sounds recorded by the French sound artist Yannick Dauby! In the same programme, sounds of lemuridae of Madagascar will also be played. The show time is 1:15am on 16 Dec Taiwan time.

For those of you who are enthusiastic about sound art, come to Sinologic for a look. Many activitis are announced or discussed here!
Thank worKing for providing this information!

Come to see how Folk Songs for the Five Points employs these two materials-- environmental sounds and folk music, to make a piece of work on the internet! Inspired by the element of folk music, foreign cultures in New York link to the environmental sounds of New York. The phenomona of multi-culture in NY is mapped!

The 'Mosquito' machine: Use the sounds that people who are more than 30 years old cannot hear to repel mosquitos (and the people who are below 30 years old!) ^_^