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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: Fri Mar 12, 2010
- Location(s): Orleans all of New Orleans
- Topics(s): Community development, Education, Other
- Tag(s): soundmap, communitymedia, medialiteracy, sound, opensound, neworleans
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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
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
Help needed from other people:
Open Sound New Orleans relies on grants and individual donations. Please contact us if you're interested in supporting this work.
Recent News
- New Website Relaunch & Radio Spots on WWNO 89.9Fri, 06/19/2009 Each Thursday evening at 6:45 pm on 89.9 WWNO, one community-contributed sound will air. [...read more]
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