soundwalk online

A soundwalk is any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment. It is exposing our ears to every sound around us no matter where we are. We may be at home, we may be walking across a downtown street, through a park, along the beach; we may be sitting in a doctor's office, in a hotel lobby, in a bank; we may be shopping in a supermarket, a department store, or a Chinese grocery store; we may be standing at the airport, the train station, the bus-stop. Wherever we go we will give our ears priority. They have been neglected by us for a long time and, as a result, we have done little to develop an acoustic environment of good quality.

Listening in that way can be a painful, exhausting or a rather depressing experience, as our ears are exposed often to too many, too loud or too meaningless sounds. [...] Unless we listen with attention, there is a danger that some of the more delicate and quiet sounds may pass unnoticed by numbed ears and among the many mechanized voices of modern soundscapes and may eventually disappear entirely.

- Hildegard Westerkamp: Soundwalking. Originally published in Sound Heritage, Volume III Number 4, Victoria B.C., 1974

Or tl;dr:

A soundwalk is:
- a listening exercise that helps us become aware of our immediate acoustic environment;
- also about the aesthetic pleasures of listening;
- listening to sounds we might otherwise have missed;
- listening to the rhythm of sounds;
- listening for the unique 'voice' of a city.

It's about enjoying the sensual beauty and sheer surprise of sound...

This is my first unity project and a proof of concept. I'm working on a more complete experience! Feel to free to walk a bit in this small soundscape for now. If something is not working it might be your browser blocking something.

Credits and Thank Yous:
- Better Minimal WebGL Template
- Brackeys and his tutorials
- the people who tested this