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The Roaring Twenties

by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Historical Acoustics and Sound Related Models

This interactive website includes documentation of noise complaints in New York in the 1920s. The site, with excellent presentation and citing of information, includes separate tabs on the time, space, and sounds of this period of history. These sounds come from...

Radiooooo

by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Historical Acoustics and Sound Related Models

Radiooooo is an interactive map that provides the listener with a song from the crowd-sourced “radio,” using a specified country and decade after 1900. The map allows the listener to specify whether the song is slow, fast, or weird and then suprises them with a...

Radio Garden

by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Historical Acoustics and Sound Related Models

Radio Garden is produced by Studio Puckey and Moniker, both Amsterdam-based design studios. This interactive globe delivers radio transmissions from across the globe based on location. Notably, it streams many stations from Asia, South America, Africa, and Australia,...

Musicmap

by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Historical Acoustics and Sound Related Models

Musicmap is a visual genealogy that introduces the history of, and relationships between, popular music genres. The incorporation of database construction with verbal and multimedia elaboration not only builds the macroscopic frames of popular musical genres, but also...

Musical Passage

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...

Hip Hop Geography

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...
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