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A crowd-sourced archive of field recordings from all over the world. You can navigate the navigate the map and listen to sounds from where it was recorded. It currently consists of 70 825 recordings from 2 741 different contributors.
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A website of forest recordings sent in from people all over the world ✨🌎🎧 My friend texted me a link to this last night and I fell asleep listening to it.
The photographs that accompany the recordings are stunning 🥹 Highly rec for anyone feeling the eco-doom 🫂
Mar 8, 2025
Here it is, folks! Volume I of what could very well be a continuous project. Thank you so much to everyone that submitted - I smiled the entire time I was putting this together. It's best listened to with headphones ☺️
Liner Notes:
This collection of field recordings is a collaborative effort with users of PI.FYI, each of which recorded their own pieces. It features audio from all over the world and exhibits eclectic moments from London Underground commutes to cuckoo bird calls in Dhaka to the sounds of a century-old American diner.
Online communities like PI.FYI often represent a diverse set of people, places, and experiences, but together, the submissions form a living collage that highlights the commonalities of modern life - a unifying message for such a tumultuous time. The first track features all of the sounds played at once in an attempt to create an audio snapshot of an online community but in their offline lives.
The individual recordings are unedited except for minor gain and compression adjustments for consistency across the collection.
Mar 29, 2025
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a comprehensive 30GB archive of the noise-arch.net digitized tape collection, entirely comprised of D.I.Y tapes from the 80s and 90s. Lots of noise, strange sound art, homemade music, and some field recordings. the archive.org link on this post is the full download (which I recommend if you have an external hard drive), but there’s also a link on that page to an easy-to-explore collection of the tapes (it's unfortunately not as comprehensive as the full download, but it's good if you just want a taste). I’ll most likely make a few other posts with tapes I find that I really enjoy! super wonderful to hear pre-internet-dominance independent music. cultural time capsules, deeply emotional at times
Jan 15, 2024
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A beautiful book, specifically designed to be read while walking.
As it says in the introduction, “Read me while you walk. Hold me while you stand. Put me down while you take a pause”.
Mar 8, 2025
Mar 8, 2025