Locus Sonus Audio Streaming Project Map

paris (2)

avignon

amsterdam

wollongong

hong-kong

san francisco

santa barbara

dakar

milwaukee

chicago (3)

new-york (3)

boston

québec

istanbul

ekaterinburg

helsinki

oslo

sollefteå

mooste

marseille (2)

nantes

london (2)

belfast

reykjavik

edinburgh

stromboli

cassis

ensenada

grenoble

second life

http://locusonus.org/ | Locustream SoundMap | 2006-08 | A Locus Sonus lab initiative.

Thanks to JCraft Inc. for the ogg player, to Stéphane Cousot for php programmings, to John Walker and SSEC: UW-Madison for Earth View and weather data, to Creacast streaming server (Gilles Misslin) and to all the participants to the project for offering time, machine and involvement into the set-up and the maintenance of the open-mikes. If you wish to participate, or if you're having problems reading the ogg streams, send a message to support (at) locusonus.org

active streams
under construction or temporary stopped streams

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1 - Marseille
01/2006
• location: Cap15
• description: an open-mike placed into an air vent
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Peter Sinclair.

3 - Chicago
06/2006
• location: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sound Dept
• description: an open-mike on a window upper a street facing the lake.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Robb Drinkwater, Peter Gena.

2 - Marseille
05/2006
• location: Port Autonome, at Hartmut's house
• description: an open-mike with a parabola thru a window upper the sea
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Lydwine van der Hulst, Harmut Bosbach.

4 - Reykjavìk
08/2006
• location:
• description: The stream tells all about what is happening and not happening at the kitchen (and meeting point) at our artist-complex in Reykjavik.
• operator: Ragnar Helgi Olafsson.

5 - Québec
06/2007
• location: Québec
• description: Avatar offices. A few contact microphones on a kitchen set : a refrigerator, a sink and a small oven.
• operator: Avatar / Meriol Lehmann.

6 - San Francisco 07/2006
• location: Stanford
• description:the site is in a tree outside my studio on the Stanford campus. the setting has a rural feeling despite being surrounded by urban/suburban development.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Paul Demarinis.

7 - Boston
07/2006
• location: Somerville
• description: The microphone I am using is outside of my 3rd floor studio. There are several birds nests nearby.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Marc McNulty.

8 - Istanbul
11/2006
• location:
• description:
• operator: Koray Tahiroglu.

will run in mid-december from istanbul or helsinki.
stay stuned

9 - New-York
06/2007
• location:
• description: An underwater mike. The hydrophone is in a bottle on a window's edge.
• operator: Raphaele Shirley.

10 - New-York
08/2006
• location: IDMI, Polytechnic University
• description: The microphone is in a hall. Occasionally, you'll hear the sound of the robotic ice cream vending machine.
• operator: Hans-Christoph Steiner.

11 - Oslo
07/2006
• location: NOTAM (Grünerlökka)
• description: A cheap microphone taped to a window at 4th floor. You could hear the river Akerselva and perhaps people passing by and on weekend evenings loud music from the consert venue Blå.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Risto Holopainen.

12 - Edinburgh
??/2006
• location:
• description:
• operator: Michael Edwards.

underconstruction

13 - Ekaterinburg
07/2006
• location:
• description:
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Vasily Kuznetsov.

I've set up a test stream from my notebook. It will sporadically run... and next step: a stream from Bonn where I'll be during several months...

15 - Wollongong
09/2006
• location: Australia
• description: A parabolic microphone has been cable-tied to a drain pipe outside my studio window at the University of Wollongong.
• operator: Timothy Nohe.

16 - London
??/2006
• location: scemfa.org
• description:
• operator: Martin John Callanan with the team of the Slade Centre for Electronic Media at The Slade School of Fine Art.

underconstruction

17 - London
08/2006
• location: Elephant and Castle
• description: A small lavalier mic is positioned on the window ledge of the CRiSAP (Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice) office, on the 13th floor of a 1960s tower block.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Angus Carlyle, Michael Wright.

18 - Apo33 Nantes
07/2006
• location: Apo33's studio
• description: Audio oscultation in APO33. A network of mics is catching sounds in APO33 lab's environment.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: www.apo33.org

19 - New-York
08/2006
• location: Brooklyn (Williamsburg Bridge)
• description: A very cheap microphone is mounted in a low-tech parabolic reflector made from an old metal lampshade. Aimed at the Williamsburg Bridge, from my studio window.
• operator: John Klima.

20 - Milwaukee
08/2006
• location: West Milwaukee
• description: In Milwaukee's industrial harbor. Sixth floor of an old factory building. Facing Michigan Lake.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Jason Nanna.
temporary picture

21 - Mooste 08/2006
• location: Estonia
• description: "MoKS" Center (www.moks.ee)
• operator: Ben Chang and hosts at Mooste Guest Studio.

underconstruction

22 - Sollefteå
08/2006
• location: North Sweden
• description: During the streaming period the mike placement will be altered in different locations around my house and garden (countryside).
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Björn Eriksson (aka Miulew).

23 - Belfast
08/2006
• location: Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC)
• description: A boundary microphone constantly captures the soundscape around the SARC's building in Belfast.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Alain Renaud.

14 - dakaren
08/2006
• location:Dakar
• description: Mermoz, Comico 2. Between Ouakam road and VPN. A quarter of the city, called "pyrotechnie".
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: KRN.

25 - helsinki
09/2006
• location: 00130Gallery
• description: Collected by a microphone placed on the alternative gallery. You can hear people entering the space, nearby traffic, artist working studio noise.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Juan Kasari.

27 - Amsterdam
12/2006
• location:
• description: An ancient mac microphone, encased and made waterproof by hot glue, is suspended dangly above the narrow street outside Daniels house on a flag pole.
• operator: Daniel Schorno.

28 - Avignon
05/2007
• location: Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon
• description: A cheap microphone set up in a large hall of a cloister of a ancient monastery.
• operator: CNES.

29 - Santa Barbara
05/2007
• location:
• description: Apartment complex and (fancy!) microphone ... By the way, the birds are going nuts around here these days, lots of springtime babymaking and singing!
• operator: Dan Overholt.

30 - Hong-Kong
05/2007
• location: Sheung Wan
• description: Temporary toy microphone is set up outside the window in ground floor of an old building in Sheung Wan, a quite area on Hong Kong Island.
• operator: Cédric Maridet.

31 - Chicago
05/2007
• location: Ukranian village.
• description: I live in a neighborhood called ukranian village. The front of my apartment looks onto a busy street, but there are some interesting things that go on in the back of the property.
• operator: Brett Ian Balogh.

32 - Chicago
06/2007
• location: Glenview, IL.
• description: The sound is of the 17 year Cicadas, which are beginning to reach their full mating chants. The next brood like this won't occur in the Chicago area until 2024!
• operator: Peter Gena.

33 - Paris-18
07/2007
• location: Paris 18ème
• description: .
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Cyrille Henry

35 - Pocket Wood
04/2008
• location: Paris - Les Lilas
• description: Le micro se trouve chez moi, collé à un gobelet qui amplifie le son d'une puce électronique dont le son varie en fonction du taux d'humidité d'un tapis de mousse que j'ai prélevé dans le Périgord.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Nicolas Bralet

36 - Stromboli
04/2008
• location: Stromboli
• description: Stream immersif à horizons variables - émergence streamique itinérante.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Nicolas Bralet

34 - Cassis-Camargo
04/2008
• location: Cassis
• description: The Camargo Foundation is located at the entrance of the harbor in Cassis, France.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Alejo Duque and Jean-Pierre Dautricourt

37 - Ensenada - CEARTE
04/2008
• location: Centro Estatal de Las Artes Ensenada, Mexico
• description: .
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Miguel Eduardo Venegas Monroy

38 - Grenoble - FAÏ
06/2008
• location: Faï (Hautes-Alpes)
• description: 3 acoustic horns face to mountain.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Dan Donadel and students of the School of Arts of Grenoble.

39 - Second Life - LS
06/2008
• location: Second Life / Cultures Digitales (90, 193, 128)
• description: A stream from SL with sonic objects moved by avatars in acoustic resonant spaces we're building.
• stream: ogg mono
• operator: Locus Sonus Lab.