Sound

This morning I wrote a post on my blog about the use of sound and noise in restaurants. How does sound play a role in design and urban life in general? You’ve got some time to think about that one. The Baltimore Design Conversation is taking a summer break this month, so there will be no gathering on Wednesday. We will return Wednesday, September 2 and the theme will be SOUND.

One sound-related topic that I heard about recently is the BBC’s project Save our Sounds. They are archiving sounds from around the world and putting them on an interactive global map. You can click on the map and hear an audio file  that has been uploaded by a user. You can hear the sounds at the edge of a pond in Yu Yuan Tan Park in Beijing or the cries of a family of Proboscis monkeys.

You can record and upload files to add to the archive. What sounds are disappearing from Baltimore? I think I would upload the noises of the Arabber: the jingle of the bells around the horse’s neck, the clopping of the horseshoes on pavement, the call of the man selling the fruit. You can hear the call of the Arabber by visting this page on the Web. (Give it a second to load itself)