Sound map

As I mention yesterday, I decided to go for the sound map idea. So Yesterday I send to some of you a survey, Asking if you remember places by it's sounds. Majority of you said Yes, I also ask you what kind of sounds you remember from your journeys. The answers were different from each other, but I was sup-price that many of you remember a lot of them, what was very good.
Today on the way to University I record some interesting sounds. Then I ask some of friends to draw for me this sound, using straight lines . I also asked what color have each of those sounds. Some observations were very interesting for example sound of police car ,people tend to draw squares and heavy lines in the centre of the box.
After I lay them on top of each other and then place on the london map in the places were I herd them. image below is the result of what I come up so far. I also use colors You have chosen and mix the map using opacity.
I think this project could be very interesting to see as a collection of sound maps from different areas of london , It could be nice to compare way people draw different kinds of sounds.
So probably I will ask you guys for help with drawing sounds very soon. thank you to those who help me so far.






Those are some of the drawings I manage to collect

BRITISH LIBRARY

Yesterday I went to see Magnificent Map exhibition in British Library , what intreats me the most on the exhibition was The insider's tourist map. Hand Drawn by Artist Stephen Walter in 2008. Map is a mixture of local and personal informations in words and symbols including the locations of the pubs with good views. In the way this map work similar as modern tourist map pointing out features of interest for the curious.

Later when I was back in University I had my head full of ideas, too many perhaps. I spoke to several tutors and in the end of the day I suppose to make map base on sounds of the chosen by me place. Something like collage of london sound , which would be displayed on the exhibition as a installation. Those sounds would be accompanied with map of those places. Map would be on the floor and spacers with different sound hanging so you can walk true them. As you walk thru you hear different sounds laying on top of each other, creating London voice. I was still not a 100 per cent sure about that.

Then back home I thought that I wouldn't enjoy this project more if I could focus on visuals more , so lets say i would do an illustrated map of london, based on research i made on the protocolar area, I mean photographs , of things I notice. And made map of london life , but I wasn't sure about that ever so I asked Darren for help and we come up with this idea to do map for dyslexic people, because they have trouble with reading a normal map, and they remember ruts to places differently then others. I start doing a little research about that and to be honest I am not really shore how to present this on the map then thinking dipper about the subject I saw mare complications.
So I am home now searching on internet for some amassing ideas, and I find one. I don't know if is amassing but it is some idea.
So, I read this Quote "our perception of space depends as much on what we hear as on what we see."
So at the moment what I am doing is I am using my previous idea in more personal and graphic way. What I am planing to do now is to ask people if they remembering places by sounds, if sounds if so what sounds they remembering on the m journeys. Then I am thinking maybe on my personal journey I could record sounds I hear and illustrate them using very simple abstract patterns( using just different lines for example). Mark my journey on very graphic, simple map , may be black and white, "less is more" , next lay the patterns of the sounds I have herd on my way on this map. May be I could create a little booklet of sounds I have herd during this week on different journeys i had. hmmmm. ......... The other way of doing it is maybe I would record this sounds, play to numbers of people and ask them to drawn this sound in abstract way and maybe say what color is this sound in them eyes. hmmmmm..... so if you receive an survey tonight via your e-,mail pleas be so kind and fill it up for me :)

This morning I thought

tutorial

Is that a map then ?

So I was thinking if I would lay out my drawing on the existing map would that answer my sooner question ? hmmmm... yes in the way probably would have to be present in more sophisticated way but that is a map then , is it? I am so confuse after doing month of research I don't know any more what map is ...... , So maybe that is the way to go, maybe not I don't know any more . Anyway that is not satisfy me yet so I am off to work ...

new approach

SO last THURSDAY , during lunch time I walk around Elephant & Castle and documented what I saw, After I produced this drawing what is representing what Elephant & castle is in my eyes, is a stereotype which is created by things I saw and my imagination.
Thats say some story about the place in specific period of time, but is it a map ? No but have a potential to be one I jest have to figure out how use this idea and make map out of this ........

so I try again ......

SO i TRY AGEIN EXPERIMENT WITH TRIANGLES , THIS TIME i USE ILLUSTRATIONS TEXT , MY OBSERVATIONS AND ABSTRACT PATTERNS WHICH WERE THINKS I SAW BUT CODED IN TO A PATTERNS , LATE EXPLAIN EXPLAINED IN THE KEY , BUT THAT DIDN'T WORK IVER ... OH WELL MOVING ON

experyments

Those are experiments I have done during past few days, I try to apply my previous idea in 3d form made out of triangles. i also try to compose sound in to it. so lets say I am going to Brixton and I document everything caches my eye, after that I to drawn abstract pattern which will tell the story of this place and things and people i have seen there. I also recorded sound from this place. I was planing to use a recording chip from postcards to present this. unfortunately that didn't work as I thought it would, it is not what I expected to be, so now i start to edit this idea and present this in for of book , i will show you what thats take me very soon

shetchbook

It has been a while since my last post but I was very buzzy , creating new ideas, brainstorming and ten experimenting whit those ideas. There it is, my sketch book.












I have this idea to do a map which would be a documentation of thinks you see in london. I probably wont be able to map all london but I could do to a map of some areas which are a stereotypes of london. This map would be a documentation of london of this time so I will have to be very specific and say that it is a map of london for example from 15 of may till 25. of may. I don't know jet how this idea will develop and How i will present this, lets see what's is going to happen

experyments

Examples of Map Key symbols

Maps

Eric Fischer wondered how fast San Francisco's transit system really was, so he asked the transit agency's realtime data feed, and drew a picture of the answer:

I find this on the Jarrett Blog where you can read more about this map.