The MAP is very easy to use. The left window uses Google maps to locate the sounds on the map. If you click on the signs, you will see a new window with information about the recording, information that you can find also on the right side of the main window.
You can listen to the sounds online but also download them freely.
It works with most web browsers but we strongly recommend to use
Mozilla Firefox.
SOINU MAPA is an open collaborative project. Based on "phonography" or the art of recording environmental sounds, our aim is to show, share and exchange field recordings made in the Basque Country.
Here, you will find more than 100 sound recordings, that tell us a little bit more about the different sound realities of the Basque country. If you also like to record sounds and want to share your work with us, just contact us and participate!
In order to distribute them freely, all recordings are published under
Creative Commons license.
SOINU MAPA started thanks to a collection of recordings made by
Luz Maria Sanchez in 2001. During a residence at Arteleku, this mexican sound artist did dozens of field recordings on different geographical locations of the basque country, from south to north, east to west.
This collection was archived on Arteleku mediateque, ready to be used by any artist, as Luz Maria wrote on the documentation.
Three years later, Audiolab created SOINU MAPA, in order to present in public all this collection and create a even bigger archive based on the same philosophy.
Paralelly, this collection give birth to a new project. In late 2005 the "brother" project
RE:MAPA invited some basque sound artists and musicians to use this recordings and create new sound pieces, reinterpretations of the original archives (check re:mapa section).
SOINU MAPA is a project of
Audiolab, the sound department of
Arteleku contemporary art center from Donostia-San Sebasti‡n. SOINUMAPA has been possible thanks to the help and support of
Luz Maria Sanchez and
Enrike Hurtado.
You can participate in SOINUMAPA!
It's very easy, just send us your recordings by e-mail or post mail adding some extra information. We only accept recordings made in the basque country, so any other recording will not be included on the map. The recorded sounds can be of any kind and duration, paying special attention to all sounds, voices or noises that are dissapearing in our daily life.
Send us your recordings by email (only files less than 9Mb):
- CONTACT:
audiolab.arteleku@gmail.com
- SUBJECT: Participate in Soinumapa
- TEXT: A short description of the recordings (place, length, author, date...) and a link to your project or personal website.
- FILES: We accept mp3, ogg, aiff, wav
Send us your recordings by post (in a CD):
ARTELEKU-AUDIOLAB
Kristobaldegi 14, Loiola auzoa, 20014 DONOSTIA.SAN SEBASTIAN
As soon as we receive the recording, we will include it on the map.