Sound and the City is a Three Dimensional visualization of sound taken from particular locations in a given city. My goal is to showcase an alternative picture, if not a narrative, of a chosen location in a city, capsule-ing/freezing those sonic moments over time. Moments we often take for granted because everyday life rushes by - at least in some places and with some people.
The test location for my thesis is Union Square NYC where I sampled 10 minutes of sound, every hour on the hour during a period of 24 hours, between the hours of 6:00 pm to 5:10 pm.



Background
Looked into many sound analysis visualization including works from...

Audience
Anyone interested in listening and seeing.

Implementation
My goal is to make a working prototype of a 3D Sound Visualization using Max/MSP and Jitter w/openGL expressing a selected location showing its SoundScape over Time.

Conclusion
Trying to extract positional data from a Binaural recording is new impossible, especially when compounded by all the factors of sound including lack of isolation and the human algorithm which enables us to process sound and learn from it.

I also learned that there was an interest to the narrative of the recording process that others want to know about which I took for granted.

My spirit was broken at times but it's not over till the fat lady sings.