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Hello there,
As you may or may not know, there's the map feature with geotagged sounds ! https://freesound.org/browse/geotags/?c_lat=24&c_lon=20&z=2
I encourage you to :
A) Check it out! It can be interesting to hear the difference in ambiance between different countries, the different birds etc...
B) Record something yourself! A park, city center, local forest/wildlife/river. Even with just your phone!
It's never truly silent! So busy or quiet, it's always interesting to have!

It can be useful for research (frequency of cars, bikes, trucks, drones, a kind of bird, etc...) or simply for future generations to look back at what their hometown sounded like 50years ago (don't you wonder how the streets sounded like with the first cars? Or horses? Or an old accent?).
There's so many photographs of a place, google maps has almost every place, tourism got touristic place hundreds of times. But an audio recording is a missing piece of the puzzle you could fill in!

Even if there's already a recording comparing time or day of the week, or progression throughout the year is valuable!

So yeah get out there and record your local place! Someone out there will appreciate it!
You could even share your recording link here, it would please me to know if following this post, just one person got out and recorded something where a village/town was missing a recording

This is great - I've always wanted a feature like this! I've been a member for a few years, but now have recording equipment to contribute to this project.

A smartphone is good as well. Just experiment.

ChristianSW wrote:
This is great - I've always wanted a feature like this! I've been a member for a few years, but now have recording equipment to contribute to this project.

klankbeeld wrote:
A smartphone is good as well. Just experiment.

Yes, you are absolutely right! As a teenager, I had a portable cassette recorder that I carried in my backpack. I was first interested in bird songs, and that's how I became aware of field recordings.

If you ever find one of those casettes, please share them
The color of the casette with knowing its a old thing must be a lovely vibe and a golden nugget!

Sadiquecat wrote:
If you ever find one of those casettes, please share them
The color of the casette with knowing its a old thing must be a lovely vibe and a golden nugget!

I'd love to do that! Hope I will find these.