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"To produce The Met's first 3-D audio experience-an immersive tour integral to the current exhibition Visitors to Versailles (1682-1789)-my team and I entirely rethought the idea of a typical audio tour. Our goal? To bring alive the actual experiences of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century visitors to Versailles. "

" How do you create a "you-are-there" audio experience, when the "there" in question is a palace in an entirely different century?"

"The strange narrative of Newtown Creek unwinds over a new audio tour, the half-hour "A Field Guide to Whale Creek." Created by the Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies (FSDE), a media art collective including Nick Hubbard, Rebecca Lieberman, and Marina Zurkow,"

students at Codman Academy Charter Public School in Dorchester, Massachusetts, did a project where they wrote and narrated an audio guide about the sounds of birds in Boston and the surrounding vicinity. They used bird sound recordings from The Cornell La

"Hum: Drone Listening Walks is a 2-colour risograph printed pocket book mapping and poetically detailing resonant spots for audio. Readers are encouraged to walk to the sites on the map at their leisure and participate in a guided sound tour"

"In Ceará, Brazil, Narcelio Grud has created one of the more impressive alternate uses for street signs the Urban Guide for Alternate Use has seen, and we've seen plenty. Narcelio transforms street signs around the city in to public instruments as part of his Musica Livre project. "

"From an artist-led exploration of Central Park, to a field guide for a toxic waterway, here are seven recommendations for New York City sonic journeys."

Trapped in darkness, you must use visualized sound to guide your way through threatening environments. The sounds you create will bounce off obstacles, revealing the shape of the surrounding world. It won't be long before your only way of sensing the world attracts a horrifying evil that devours both sound and souls.

Great introduction to field recording by the amazing organization Sound and Music in London.