Sound Field

I just found this project titled SonicFields with a similar idea of mediating visual 3D soundscapes on the web. It’s great to see that others are working in the same direction. I couldn’t find a full project description, but an introduction to a talk by the creator Selçuk Artut at CIID Copenhagen sums up:

SonicFields explores an immersed sonic experience in a virtual 3D online environment through a 2D flat screen surface. Users are allowed to register and upload their sounds to create their own soundscapes. With its user-centric accumulation points, SonicFields-as its name proposes- is a remediated 3D soundscape, a model of sonicworld with multitude of sounds emerging from various vibrations.

Metroplex is an expanding collection of imaginary cityscapes expressed by sound artists. Each ‘city’ consists of a number of sound loops that are randomly placed inside a procedurally generated 3D structure. The visitor is sent out on an explorative journey into a non-linear sound universe without a fixed time frame, in which he/she/they can either move about freely or pause in order to delve more deeply into a particular sound.

Metroplex is intended as a new space for web based sound experiences; a space that allows for a restful, in depth immersion that is otherwise difficult to find on the internet.

The idea was conceived in 2007 during my exchange scholarship at Emily Carr in Vancouver and was since developed in collaboration with Jakob Weigand Goetz in 2008-2009. The project serves as a conceptual and technical foundation for Sound Field.

Metroplex was developed with support from The Heritage Agency of Denmark and KODA (Danish society that administers Danish and international copyrights for composers, songwriters and music publishers). It was first launched in December 2008 as a pilot project for the web-based mediation of art-music and sound-art across genres and has since been subject to a number of updates.