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Open Sound New Orleans

Open Sound New Orleans is a community project that invites New Orleanians to document their lives in sound.
  • Status: Active
  • Submitted: Mon Mar 31, 2008   |   Last updated: Thu Sep 03, 2009
  • Location(s): Orleans all of New Orleans
  • Topics(s): Community development, Education, Other
  • Tag(s): soundmap, communitymedia, medialiteracy, sound, opensound, neworleans
  • Views: 2224   |   Comments: 5

Details

You can participate by recording, or making recording requests for, the important sounds and voices in your life and adding them to the soundmap. We lend recording equipment to community organizations, neighborhood groups and individuals – and train them in its use – to facilitate a diversity of direct dispatches from around our city.

Project Scope: Vision, Aim, & Objectives

Why this project is being done:
Archiving the sounds of our city as people hear them, move through them, and create them, is an act of preservation. It is also a simple way to extend our own experience to others, and participate in New Orleans public culture with intentionality.
Project intends to address:
Our intent is to make more accessible the authentic, unedited sounds and voices of New Orleans.

Project Timeline

Ongoing

Project Plan & Participants

Other people and/or organizations involved in this project:
Open Sound New Orleans is made possible in part by Public Radio Maker's Quest 2.0, an initiative of AIR, the Association of Independents in Radio, with funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (http://www.mq2.org)
Plan for implementing this project:
Those interested in participating can contact us to borrow recording equipment. We'll deliver it to you and show you how to use it. Write: info@opensoundneworleans.com.

Help or Additional Resources Needed

Materials needed (wish list):
Audio recording equipment

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Comments

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The creators of our Website

Submitted by adamgilly on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 11:06pm.

The creators of our Website of the Week are collecting the sounds of New Orleans, which you hear by clicking on a map that shows where they were emc training recorded."Open Sound New Orleans is a community media project that invites and enables New Orlineans to document their lives in sound," says co-director Jacob Brancasi. "New Orlineans participate by recording or making recording requests exam 70-236 for the important sounds and voices in their lives and adding them to the sound map."Jacob Brancasi is co-director of OpenSoundNewOrleans.com, which launched just last year and features the city's people, music, and ambient sounds — the mcpd soundtrack of New Orleans.The sounds include cicadas recorded by Jeffrey and Ruby Haupt. They're professional audio people, but Open Sound New Orleans' other co-director, Heather Booth, says part of the project also includes training people in recording skills and lending them the equipment to document their city.

I've been to New Orleans

Submitted by watson on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 11:00pm.

I've been to New Orleans just once, and a very quick visit at that, pre-Katrina. The moment I arrived at 1 a.m. in the midst of a usual Friday night frenzy, a bit fuzzy from the plane delays, I was hypnotized by this version of southern urban. The city is vibrant ccna exam questions in all the ways most people think of cities, taken in through their eyes and noses. But the sounds caught my ears immediately.It's the way people talk, and not just southern accents, but how they grab your ear, even more than the predominantly Black city I grew up in - all those niceties hidden inside insults: "Girrrlll?!?!?!..."seems to mcts 70-562 launch every comment, question, answer. A Philly city corner resonates in similar ways. But New Orleans offers a twist. Perhaps it's the constant wallop of heat and humidity and impending storms off the Gulf. People seem to be outside all the bicsi training time, like one, long August night.Since Katrina, I've been starved for on-the-ground documentation by locals familiar with the place, offering their unmediated feelings of the evident and surreal changes. I've gotten plenty visually and in print and on the radio, but not raw audio to ensound the place. Along has come Open Sound New Orleans.

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