_ Escoitar.org))): construction in collaboration of sonorous landscapes. _

“Escoitar.org is an open project of social dinamización and frees whose primary target is the diffusion and promotion of the sonorous phenomenon and its exploration with social and documentary aims. You can participate to add your recordings. Welcome to Escoitar.org.”

One treats, basically, of a map of the Iberian Peninsula with globes-links signalizing the different sonorous registries from the participants of the project. To the right there is a column with the sounds of the map ordered by categories: when click one, they appear in the map all the registered places, for example, natural sounds.

In the ../documentación, section of the Web, explains their proposal: “The western obsession to favor the visual aspects of the culture caused the contempt of other perceptivas capacities, like the ear, relegating to background those existenciales experiences considered less significant, to a great extent, by its ephemeral character.

In century XX we attended an increasing interest by the sonorous phenomenon beyond music and of the acoustic physics in which the environmental sounds are revealed as an interesting object of interdisciplinary study (anthropology, sonorous, bioacústica ecology, cognitivas sciences, architecture, artistic creation…). Or they are natural or a construction product of the operation of the modern societies, the sounds that surround to us comprise inevitable of our lives and of our collective memory, appearing like a inestimable material for the understanding of the cultures and the societies that produce them, they use them or they perceive them. Therefore, the appreciative attitude to is of a place not only must be positive, if not that is due to study to identify those components that are worth the trouble to conserve, or, even, to recover. An approach to is of a place is an approach to their immaterial patrimony, that can take shelter with strictly documentary aims, or, in the case of “Escoitar.org”, like gross matter for the later cultural analysis, the artistic creation and in order to provoke debate and cooperation in the network.

The sounds are nonrenewable matters and the fact to capture them and to expose supposes them a prolongamento of its life, generating new alive and mutant spaces.

To perceive, to include/understand and to conceive our sonorous identity, the one of our places, their coherence and its idiosyncrasy are a necessary and healthful exercise. To find the balance bioacústico of a place, to create pictures, “Sonorous Postal”, and to construct to a situation map (online) and a description of these places through sua sonorous landscape contribue to the construction of the identity of a geographic zone; they are it like patrimony, are it like historical document.

All thanks to the possibilities that the network like democratic horizontal system offers and. With this aim a dedicated software was developed to the free publication of sonorous landscapes (Social Soundscapes) that allows the usuary cualquera to participate raising audio to the system and automatically to place it in the geographic place in which they have been recorded (the consensuado sonorous patrimony). This it is the main objective of this project whose space of documentation you are seeing. “
In order to facilitate the understanding when visiting escoitar.org, they can use the automatic translator of the Cervantes Institute.

The photos belong to one of the participant projects, Sushi para 4. This info, and more, comes from blog Nómade, of Juan Freire. We followed it, they can write commentaries, clickeando here in “commentaries”, and will be published as rapidly as possible.