All humans have the capacity to pause, listen and recognize the diversity and quality of sound in any given space. Through more active listening, each of us can find a different connection to the environments we inhabit1.
Restrictions due to COVID-19 have modified the map of sounds around us, as we used to perceive them: busy streets, schools, neightbourhoods, gardens, sport areas, or even some rooms of your home…they don´t “sound” the same as before.
Map to sounds sourrounding you. You can use some free mobile applications to record sounds and analyze them from a holistic point of view or from a more accurate point of view through its physical parameters. Which other ways could be used to analyse the sounds?
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1https://theconversation.com/listening-to-nature-how-sound-can-help-us-understand-environmental-change-105794
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