A Map of the Sounds from Forests and Woodlands Around the World

A site called Sounds of the Forest is collecting sounds from forests and woodland areas around the world and presenting them on a world map.

We are collecting the sounds of woodlands and forests from all around the world, creating a growing soundmap bringing together aural tones and textures from the world’s woodlands.

The sounds form an open source library, to be used by anyone to listen to and create from.

Here are a few of the sounds that they’ve collected.

See also the work of Gordon Hempton, who is trying to capture the sounds of the very few places left in the world without human noise. (via moss & fog)

• audio
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• trees