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Monday, April 5, 2021

Magical Musical Maps


Let the map survive your musical instrument as well as the sounds of the metropolis survive your inspiration as well as muse. It's fourth dimension for a niggling map music.

Cinco Cidades is a fascinating projection documenting the soundscapes of Portuguese cities. The  Folk Songs Project has recorded the ambient sounds at a publish of locations inwards 5 dissimilar cities inwards Portugal. Using the Cinco Cidades soundmap y'all tin dismiss guide as well as mix together whatever of these recordings to exercise your ain musical composition from the sounds of Portugal's metropolis streets.

To add together a audio to your mix merely guide a marking on the map as well as click on the 'add audio to mix' button. You tin adapt the levels of your mix yesteryear using the book command on each audio recording that y'all accept added to the mix.

If y'all don't desire to exercise your ain mix thence click on the 'Load Mix' link instead, where y'all tin psyche to mixes created as well as saved yesteryear other users.


Ohio has 88 counties. H5N1 pianoforte has 88 keys. So champaign Ohio is a piano!

Cartogrammar has mapped each county inwards Ohio to a dissimilar pianoforte key. This agency that on this map Ohio is a Piano, where each Ohio county is 1 of 88 pianoforte keys. The map has 'The Entertainer' already programmed in. So, fifty-fifty if y'all never learnt to play the Ohiophone, y'all tin nevertheless psyche to a composition played on the map of Ohio.

This map was made amongst a forthwith deprecated version of the Google Maps API. Therefore the background Google Map no longer loads. However the map overlay nevertheless plant as well as y'all tin nevertheless play tunes on the Ohio piano.


The GBIG Soundscape is some other interactive map which allows y'all to exercise a mix from recorded sounds. This map allows y'all to recreate the soundscape of dissimilar locations merely about the globe yesteryear creating your ain mix of aeroplane as well as frog songs recorded at specific locations.

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility has late started to add together rich media (sound, images, as well as video) to their opened upward global biodiversity records. GBIF Soundscape has created a Leaflet map which allows y'all to reconstruct the 'soundscapes' of detail regions merely about the globe yesteryear mixing the diverse aeroplane as well as frog sounds that tin survive heard inwards those regions.

Select a portion from the map as well as y'all tin psyche to a mix of all the aeroplane as well as frog sounds which accept been added to the GBIF information records at that location. At each place y'all tin psyche to all the recordings playing at 1 time or psyche to merely the aeroplane or frog songs. You tin too click on the 'random' push to psyche to a random mix from that location's audio recordings.