[Sound Tours] [backup] by Hugh Livingston

Salem, Mass

LivingstonSound — 2021-01-18 00:04:55 UTC

Created in May 2017 under a commission from the City of Salem. A stroll through the historic center of town. Uses Mobile Music Platform and libpd to manage location services and real-time audio processing. Not currently available for new downloads but will soon be recreated using a more current and adaptable platform.

Fort Mason, San Francisco

LivingstonSound — 2021-01-18 00:05:11 UTC

iPark, East Haddam, CT

LivingstonSound — 2021-01-18 00:05:35 UTC

Created in May 2019 with echoes.xyz.

sonoTour, as part of DTour

LivingstonSound — 2021-01-18 00:05:44 UTC

Sauk County, Wisconsin
September 2020
collaboration with WormFarm Institute. Double-click to zoom in and enjoy the unusual details of my working musical score/regional map!

Radio Story about sonoTour

LivingstonSound — 2021-01-18 00:06:24 UTC

From Sauk County, Wisconsin, listen (or read transcript) of short feature on the DTour and my featured sonoTour (a dynamic and humorous 62-mile driving sound experience).
Click the photo to reach the link.

sonoTour

LivingstonSound — 2021-01-18 00:07:31 UTC

Sauk County, Wisconsin
Download the tour to your phone or simulate the 62-mile drive on the website without leaving your desk!

Sonic Maps

LivingstonSound — 2021-01-21 07:12:42 UTC

Take the sonoTour virtually. Instructions in the box to the right if you have any trouble with the simulation.

Fort Mason sketch

LivingstonSound — 2021-01-21 07:14:15 UTC

Some sketches for an 'architectural' approach to a moving sound experience at Fort Mason. Created for the SOUNDWAVE Sonic Architecture festival. Parameters vary with location, as well as altitude, walking speed, and x,y,z accelerometer data from the phone.

What is a Sound Tour?

LivingstonSound — 2021-01-24 04:17:25 UTC

SoundTours by Livingston Sound use GPS on any mobile device to deliver any media to the location of the user. We use sound files geolocated in a particular environment to provide a musical experience, storytelling, snippets of history, or local birds in flight. The power of the SoundTour is the ability to layer lots of information through sound files, and make them explorable, discoverable, and unique to each visitor. Want to learn about history? Geology? Edible wild plants? Choose that tour. A composer's interpretation of the landscape? Meditative experience for strolling? A jogging soundtrack? All selectable on demand. Be sure to read about SoundWalks and SoundDrives!

SoundWalks and SoundDrives by Livingston Sound

LivingstonSound — 2021-02-04 08:08:34 UTC

The Soundwalk has a long history by some of the world's most interesting composers and sound artists. It is important to understand that there are two kinds of soundwalk: one is best described as a listening tour, with a guide leading a group into interesting places to use their ears, and understand their environment through discovered 'native' sonic experience. The other type of soundwalk uses prepared sound experience, whether musical composition or narrative text, to follow a visitor through a site. This is most commonly delivered over headphones. There are also interesting hybrids of the two experiences, to make sure visitors listen to the live soundscape they are visiting. We have created our own innovations with SoundDrives, designed to accompany a much larger-scale tourism experience. Read about our sonoTour in Wisconsin which was 62 miles of sound adventure!

Ask Us About a Sound Tour Created for your Open Space, Downtown, or Park!

LivingstonSound — 2021-02-07 23:28:09 UTC

Affordable, evergreen, and universally appealing. Inquire Here

A Sound Stroll through Old Town Salem

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Market Focus: SoundTours for Open Space, Parks, Land Conservancy

LivingstonSound — 2021-02-19 02:48:17 UTC

For 2021 and the particular requirements of covid-era projects, we are pleased to announce a special initiative to meet the educational and promotional and community needs of open space management organizations. In short, we create apps that connect people to the land. Our artistry is primarily collecting sounds to tell the story, but the apps can contain all the photo and video media that you would like to use, built around the dynamics of an interactive map and the ability to use real-time GPS data to locate the user.

All of the apps are available for virtual use, at home with the device, or from the comfort of a desktop computer or any web browser.

How is this useful to your organization? We can build relationships directly with the land and its ecology, wherever most convenient for your constituency. There is often a triumphant announcement of land acquisition, heralding the generosity of donors and the addition of large or small plots of land to the conservation management. But that announcement is often followed with the news that public access may be months or years away.

But what if the followers were immediately connected with an app that promises to relate the narrative up close and in great detail, with collections of nature sounds, streaming brooks, dawn choruses, coyote calls? What if video clips showed the views, the magnificence of oak groves and tall redwoods? The end user could take a virtual hike, and get to know the land well in advance of its opening. Your staff experts could provide seasonal stories, with regular updates, that come right to the constituent within the intimacy of their device.

Our main artistic expression is through soundscapes and musical compositions built upon environmental sources, so that could be an additional layer of entertainment and discovery for the audience, or it could be a purely scientific depiction of the sound environment, which we do with a soundscape recording protocol designed for accurate reference recordings for documenting differences over time.

Based in Oakland and Sonoma, we are well-qualified and well-situated to create this project to enhance your outreach and education, all at a remarkably low cost when measured by audience connection. We even know of some particularly appropriate grants that could bring such a project to fruition rapidly. Talk to us now so we can have our microphones deployed in the woods as spring arrives!

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LivingstonSound — 2021-02-25 22:42:02 UTC

Detailed instructions for visiting the sonoTour on the web

LivingstonSound — 2021-06-16 18:54:00 UTC

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Making a SoundTour for Every No. 1 Bus Route in the World

LivingstonSound — 2021-06-16 18:54:35 UTC

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San Francisco Art Institute

LivingstonSound — 2021-06-16 18:54:48 UTC

Hugh Livingston teaches an annual intensive on Soundscape and Landscape at the SFAI. Past years' platforms have included echoes.xyz and Sonic Maps for everyone to make walkable sonic experiences outdoors.

In the classroom, sketching ideas.

LivingstonSound — 2021-06-16 18:54:56 UTC

LivingstonSound — 2021-06-16 18:55:26 UTC

Congratulations to Wormfarm Institute of Reedsburg for receiving the 2021 Wisconsin Governor's Tourism Award for Arts, Culture and Heritage for producing DTour, including the sonoTour, which had 2100 downloads in 2 days!

Audio Transect

LivingstonSound — 2021-06-16 18:56:09 UTC

The transect is a landscape architect or ecologist's tool to systematically study an environment by taking biological samples at regular geographical distances. The audio transect takes this idea and samples the sound experience across a landscape in order to understand the whole.

Sound Mapping - Timescale

LivingstonSound — 2021-06-16 18:56:15 UTC

Sound Mapping - Content and Geography

LivingstonSound — 2021-06-16 18:56:20 UTC

Market Focus: SoundTours for Art Trails, Open Studios, Agricultural Festivals, Hiking Weekends

LivingstonSound — 2021-06-18 18:50:41 UTC

If you are organizing a weekend event, with potentially many visitors new to the region, a customized SoundTour is the perfect unifying factor. It contains a map, all the necessary information for visiting sites, photographs that help people find their way, and even our proprietary "Route Response" which lets the driver know if they have made a turn. We develop ideal content for visitors to delve into during the drive from one site to another, which can include historical information, route data, local dining advice, or just a unique soundscape to listen to, with sources drawn from the region, whether nature or appropriate music. One of our trademarks is a little bubbly sound every time the route crosses a creek or culvert: just a friendly reminder of the infrastructure which crisscrosses the built environment.