#song map

Dem är inte billiga, men brittiska Dorothy har tagit fram en både en Världs- och Usa-karta med låttitlar för den som letar efter inspiration för nästa Spotify-mästerverk. Designade i snygg retrostil och gör definitivt sin plats på väggen.

HQ-bilder.

Eller förresten, dorothy har redan prånglat ut spellistor åt oss som känner oss äventyrliga rent musikaliskt:

Song Street Map.

Världskartans spellista.

Not exactly to do with writers or writing (except songwriting), but it’s really beautiful and clever.

Annual Festival of Outdoor Learning (22-23 February 2014)

Workshop #2: Exploring Music & Sound In The Great Outdoors - Amy Boud Part 2: Sound Maps/Songlines

We were asked to go into the outdoor environment, find a spot by ourselves that we feel drawn too, stand there for around 10 minutes and just listen. With a pencil/pen and paper, marking ourselves in the centre of the paper with an 'X' and draw images on the paper (map) of what you can here, in relation to how far away it is to you.

See my Sound Map above and below, what the numbers stand for:

A roaring brook

Tweeting birds

Laughter over the balance beam

Rustling leaves

Rustling leaves

Tractor in the distance

Banging of wood

Grass underfoot

Trees rustling in the wind

Rope straining against the tress

Wind tunnel of noise

Trees leaning on wiring, as the wind blows

How many are from nature? How many are man-made? Can you give your map to someone else and see if they can locate where you were stood?

For those in the group who had done Sound Maps before and wanted to try something different, they explored Aboriginal Songlines.

Songlines (Aboriginal)

This is something I had never heard of before and didn't have the opportunity to explore further during the workshop due to time constraints, but I have discovered some links on th internet that go into it in more depth.

Songlines: How Indigenous Australians Use Music to Mark Geography

Songlines