Episode #119 of GEOGRAFREE Front Line. Today´s Topic: Soundscapes.

Links:

  • The World Soundscape Project: http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html

  • World Soundscape Project on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Soundscape_Project

Literature:

  • Leyshon, A, D Matless, and G Revill. "The Place of Music: [Introduction]." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 120, no. 4 (1995): 423-33. http://www.jstor.org/stable/622973.

  • Johansson, Ola, and Thomas Lee Bell. Sound, Society, and the Geography of Popular Music. Farnham, UK and Birmingham, VT: Ashgate, 2009

  • Schafer, R M. The Soundscape. Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Rochester, 1994

  • Westerkamp, H. "Soundwalking." Sound Heritage 3, no. 4 (1974)

Announcements:

  • Soundtracks: Music, Tourism and Travel

  • 6-9 July 2012

  • Liverpool, United Kingdom

  • http://cultstud.org/index.php?id=62

Quick Vote:

  • "Why do we use earphones while walking through the City?"

Music I:

Without a Sound - Max and the Wild Things - ‘Max and the Wild Things‘

music.mevio.com

US iTunes-Link for the Album: ‘http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/max-and-the-wild-things/id386633906‘

German iTunes-Link for the Album: ‘http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/max-and-the-wild-things/id386633906‘

Music II:

Travelin‘ Funk - Bill Zerbe - ‘Bluesin‘ Again‘

podsafe music network

music.mevio.com

US iTunes-Link for the Album: ‘http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bluesin-again/id423138430‘

German iTunes-Link for the Album: ‘http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/bluesin-again/id423138430‘

Cover:

This weeks episode cover is a mashup of the original Front Line Logo and this pictures:

  • http://syn.org.au/sites/default/files/SignalSoundscape_0.jpg

  • http://www.mtsu.edu/urban/images/urban1.jpg

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