by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Historical Acoustics and Sound Related Models
What’s different about this musical map from others is the very format of the “map” – not a geographical rendering of the dissemination of Jamaican music in the 17th century, but rather a mapping of sounds onto paper using Western-style notation practices. The sheet...
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Historical Acoustics and Sound Related Models
This project by Katya Deve situates the history of hip hop in particular times and places, starting in the South Bronx in 1973. Deve’s use of a map in representing and analyzing the history of this art form is highly appropriate, as hip hop is a highly geographically...
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Historical Acoustics and Sound Related Models
The Global Jukebox is a project initiated by Columbia Univeristy musicologist, Alan Lomax. He created an interactive tool that allows users to see the similarities between folk song traditions around the world. The user can choose to navigate the Global Jukebox either...
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Historical Acoustics and Sound Related Models
In maps made with Carto, MapBox, and OSM, researchers from Bell labs have created a Maps for the streets of the World’s major cities, and analyzed what kinds of noise are on that street (music, transportation, nature, etc). They have also included a chart of the...
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Historical Acoustics and Sound Related Models
In 2002 the University of Santa Barbara began digitizing a collection of over 10,000 wax cylinders, the recording precursor to vinyl. This method was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which makes it a particularly useful resource for studying the...
