There is a lot of cool stuff going on with sound mapping of one sort or another. This Japanese artist makes maps that plays sounds from different parts of a city when you trace over the map with a special pen. All the sounds played are ambient noise taken from different locations…

Here is an excerpt from “We Make Money Not Art” archives (Here is the link)

Sound mapping

By Regine
on January 18, 2005 11:02 AM

“Streetscape“, by Japanese artist Iori Nakai, is a plastic map with the sounds of the city “attached” to it. When tracing over the city’s white map with a special pen, you can hear everyday noises that were recorded at that particular location: conversations, passing traffic, and all the ambient sounds that make a city.streetscape3.jpg streetscape.jpgThe artist has produced many different versions of it, according to the city where he exhibits the work.

I also read something about crazy people running around a room wearing sound helmets

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http://www.turbulence.org/blog/images/av04.jpg

And here is something for you guys doing that tag it project:

With Audiotag, by Lalya Gaye and Margot Jacobs, from the Interactive Institute in Sweden, previously recorded personal messages are left at hidden places in public spaces to be whispered to passersby as they lean towards small boxes fixed in urban environment(blogged last year.)

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See also: Siemens’ electronic Post-It (via textually.)

Now, I have passed the Point of Diminishing Returns (thank you Kevin) and need to get busy on some Villa Lante. But I did just learn about the Dissonanze festival in Rome and now I’m daydreaming about Italy. Maybe i can channel the daydreams into the Villa. Pizza, Pasta e cia cia cia (that is pronounced cha cha cha for all you non-Italians!)