Sound around you

Sound around You is a project of the University of Salford

It's an iPhone app which allows you to record sounds in particular locations. These are linked to Google Street View, using the location tracking on your phone.

The idea is that you can add to this collaborative project. The uploads that have already been made sit on a Google Map.
Click to explore the uploads that others have made. Sounds can also be downloaded as mp3 files so that you could build up a sound library of different environments quite nicely.

Why not record and upload some sounds in and around your school ?

I like the way that the microphone stop and start button rotate round, so that you can direct the microphone at features that you are trying to record. Sounds can also be rated against a range of factors, and this information appears alongside the sound. I tried it out in London yesterday (more on that in a future blog post) and it works really nicely....

Thanks once again to Keir Clarke for the original tipoff on Google Maps Mania