Soundscape: Voice of the lion

Lion's Roar (:56) This amazing footage of the oldest lion of the Makulu Mapogo at the Idube Game Reserve in South Africa is a fascinating close-up acoustic experience. Source: Rob The Ranger on You Tube

Interview: Nicola Belucci and Wolfgang Fasser

Interview: Nicola Belucci and Wolfgang Fasser (7:25) The documentary film Nel Giardino die Suoni (The Garden of Sound) explores the work with handicapped kids by music and physical therapist Wolfgang Fasser.

Fasser is a Swiss musician, sound researcher and music therapist who lost eyesight as a young person. For many years, he has worked in Tuscany with severely disabled children, introducing them to the world of sound by using all kinds of natural sounds, noises and music. Fascinated by the sounds of his environment, he is constantly recording sonic events like singing birds early in the morning. Later he plays uses these recordings with children. This Art-TV, recorded in Munich, explores the story behind the film. Source: Art-TV

Film Trailer (1:55) Il Giardino Dei Suoni (Source: You Tube)

Soundscape Installation

A Sound Garden (1:24) The Sound Garden created, by Douglas Holis, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle Washington, is a poetic grove of linear 21' high steel towers supporting wind-activated organ pipes mounted on vanes that move to face the wind. The site overlooks Lake Washington in Seattle. As people wander along the 300' custom brick and gravel path or sit on perforated steel benches, they encounter a beautiful shoreline, light, wind and sound as portrayed through the organ pipes. Source: You Tube

Soundscape: Say it in a whistle

Say it in a whistle (3:26) Human communication as part of the soundscape takes many forms. On La Gomera in the Canary Islands, people can say anything with a whistle. The ancient whistling communication was invented centuries ago - and it works in any language. Source: CBS Sunday Morning

Soundscape: San Francisco Mid-Market Area

Mid-Market Area (6:15) This short observational video documents the Market Street area of San Francisco between 5th street and 10th. A diversity of  urban sounds can be heard from trolly cars to street arguments in this city soundscape. Source: You Tube.

Education: Minute of Listening

Minute of Listening is a creative learning project through which the Sound and Music project hopes to enable every child in the the UK to gain access to a huge diversity of music and sound and, for sixty seconds each day, to focus on the richness and enjoyment of the act of listening.

From January to March 2012 over 20,000 children at 70 schools around the UK took part in the pilot for Minute of Listening, experiencing a new minute-long extract of music or sound each day. You can find out more about the project at: soundandmusic.org/projects/minute-listening

Soundscape: Paris Cafe and traffic

Paris Cafe and Street  (:51) The romance of a Paris street side cafe is put to the test in this video documenting  Paris soundscape. The cafe, facing the river, was separated from it by a major street, the quai de la Mégisserie, which is partially visible to the left and reflected in the glass of the café.

The fact that people still sit at the cafe and enjoy drinks demonstrates how strong the appeal of Paris is for visitors (most of the people seen here are tourists). Source: You Tube

Soundscape Installation: Play Stockholm (interactive)

What is the soundscape of Stockholm like? Is it different from other big cities? This interactive installation suggests that Stockholm's soundscape, noise and all, is one of the many good reasons to travel to Sweden's historical city.  

This is an interactive web site that allows you to click, play, and mix to create  your own music from the sounds of Stockholm. There are twelve videos that you can activate and create your own "soundscape composition"

Click2View Play Stockholm interactive video site.

Source: You Tube