Theo Goetemann
Hear geospatial datasets around DC. For anything out of our hearing, touch, smell, or taste range, we rely on vision to perceive distance. How far is Noma from Georgetown? We use google maps. Where are post offices located DC? Well.. no one asks that anymore; the point being, our perception of distance is almost entirely reliant on sight. “Sound Mapping” loads two csv files, positions the listener at a location from one of the files facing north, and emits a sound whose volume and panning (source direction) are dependent on the locations of the entities in the other dataset. Paired with geospatial datasets from the city’s open data portal, “Sound Mapping” is an unconventional way to perceive distance across an entire city.
