The Sound Outside does not want to be a mere collection of soundscapes, a digital archive where to freeze sonic objects collected and abstracted from their living reality. What we want it to be, is the beginning of a collective reflection on how sound designers can re-imagine the future sound of our shared spaces.
We asked those who took part in The Sound Outside to share their thoughts on what sound means for humans, how the pandemic changed the urban soundscape and finally how we can contribute to design a better one for the future.
7 – Soundscapes in change
In this episode, Aqilah Misuary, sound designer, audio-visual artist & sound designer and Mark Nazemi, composer & researcher, talk about all the open possibilities that the experience of lockdown is giving us, from a renovated relationship with the soundscape to human voices muffled by masks in a dystopian future or to a better society shaped by good technologies.
The soundscapes you can hear during this episode are part of The Sound Outside and were submitted by Maryam Safi, Martin K. Koszolko, Sean Hattingh, Loundscape, Paul Holzman, L.H Aim Adi Negara, Adriano Zanni, Claudio Attonito and Andres Barrios Mier.
6 – The sound inside
In this episode, Martina Salmieri, a very young sound artist and a Nature lover, film music composer and field recordist Gabriela de Azevedo and Drago? Iorgulescu, experimental music composer and field recording lover.
They talk about the capacity we have to learn by the silence during Lockdown for rediscovering our own skill to choose what the healthy sounds are as well as the dangerous ones.
The soundscapes you can hear during this episode are part of The Sound Outside and were submitted by Martina Salmeri, Vilte Gustyte, Gabriela de Azevedo, Alessandra Eramo, Drago? Iorgulescu and Dusan Brkovic.
5 – Future life, future sound
In this episode, Lynette Quek audiovisual maker based in Singapore and York, UK and Ariel Mioduser, Argentine UI designer, Animation and Sound artist based in Jaffa, Israel. They talk about how to take the opportunity from listening to the sound during the lockdown: it has changed but it’s always on the move to give us new ideas to conceive a more conscious life.
The soundscapes you can hear during this episode are part of The Sound Outside and were submitted by Paolo Ielasi, Milena Droumeva, Chris Quites, Gianmaria Seveso and Biagio Cavallo.
4 – The movement of sound is a wave of awareness
In this episode, Lynette Quek audiovisual maker based in Singapore and York, UK and Ariel Mioduser, Argentine UI designer, Animation and Sound artist based in Jaffa, Israel. They talk about how to take the opportunity from listening to the sound during the lockdown: it has changed but it’s always on the move to give us new ideas to conceive a more conscious life.
The soundscapes you can hear during this episode are part of The Sound Outside and were submitted by Ariel Mioduser, Lynette Quek, Emanuela Martignetti, Julian Day, Mark Nazemi, Aqilah Misuary and Chris Trevena.
3 – Soundscape as community identity
In this episode, Alessia Rapone, Italian journalist and independent radio producer from Rome, and Chelidon Frame, an Italian sound artist and electroacoustic musician from Milan, share their thoughts on sounds as an identity of a rediscovered community and how sounds are the mirror of new relationships forgotten and unthinkable before the lockdown.
The soundscapes you can hear during this episode are part of The Sound Outside and were submitted by Adrian Tosoni, Alessia Rapone, Chelidon Frame, David Campanini, Dibakar Saha and Mattia L. Siboni.
2 – The beauty came back from the sounds
With Giulio Conversi, sound editor and re-recording mixer for cinema from Copenhagen (Denmark) and Claudia Ferretti Isonde, singer, author and composer from Brescia (Italy), share they thoughts on sounds as a measure to start from beauty, health and good energy.
The soundscapes you can hear during this episode are part of The Sound Outside and were submitted by Giulio Conversi, Claudia Ferretti Isonde, Pedro Rebelo, Riccardo Tesorini and Agnese Banti.
1 – The value of a green sound
With Julia Innes, sound recordist from Montreal (Canada) and Dominik Braun, sound designer, music producer and content writer from Darmstadt (Germany).
The soundscapes you can hear during this episode are part of The Sound Outside and were submitted by Julia Innes, Dominik Braun, Charles Sagnet, Chris Trevena, Damiano Meacci, Oscar H. Marín Gómez.
- The Sound Outside – Podcast series with the authors - June 1, 2020
- From silence, listen to the future - April 13, 2020
- The Sound Outside – Listening to the world at Covid-19 Time - March 28, 2020