global collage of foundsound places to underscore your personal spaces
A DAY OF SONIC SERENDIPITY / 100+ ARTISTS / 1000+ LOCATIONS / EACH DAY IS DIFFERENT
Created and curated by Janek Schaefer / adjust your volume to background sound / leave it on
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"It’s lovely Janek. I really like listening to it.
Well done! I’ll link it to my friends." [Brian Eno]
LISTEN ALL DAY QUIETLY & CALMLY
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foundsoundscape Foundsoundscape : Notes
Foundsoundscape was inspired by the very first Digital Radio station in the UK, that simply played a recording of a rural location. Radio you could just leave running to add a peaceful ambience to your environment indoors. It heralded a new media paradigm, as digital broadcasting offered more capacity than requred for the first time, and that space needed filling. At the same time on TV, Channel 4 was broadcasting Big Brother live 24hours, and at night I loved to tune-in my analogue TV sets all over the house, and the shed, so I could hear the housemates gently sleeping as I worked through the night. Since then infomercials, and gambling TV have taken over, and I greatly miss that sense of real-time space, that does not demand your attention. Foundsoundscape quietly underscores your environment, by creating new ones from others. Radio is special as it was the first medium that could be experienced by many people in many places, all at the same time > > > Foundsoundscape.com is an online radio station that streams live 24hours a day, which can now be broadcast to people all over the globe. Using over 1000 calm & curious location recordings captured by 100+ recordists, the sounds were simply edited, and then played back three at a time at various volumes in shuffle mode, and the result is never the same twice. You often hear the edges of time as files begin or stop playing mid flow. If you listen ever so carefully you can also hear me working in the studio at the end of the garden late at night, as I have a live mic feeding into the mix. I sometimes like to work with tv radio & music playing, to absorb information, give me ideas, create and share. Email me for a shout-out! My hope is that others will find foundsoundscape enjoyable and leave it running all day & all night long, just like a radio! It's as simple as that, with one click. A salute to serendipity and shared sonic space. Bookmark it. Play it in rooms around the house. Share it . . Take a break . . . Every day is different. Happy Daze . . . . . . .
Massive thanks to everyone who has helped make this possible Commissioned by the Sonic Art Research Unit, Oxford Brookes, UK Programming by Efthymios Chatzigiannis & David Tinapple Concept / Editing / Design / Website / Janek Schaefer
> > > List of the 100+ audio recorders Selection was from an open call for contributions, + Physical Installation version / Oxford 2015 > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >
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