Soundscapes From Soundtransit

Sound Transit is a actually wonderful formulation of an idea. It's non simply a huge collection of Mp3 audio files from all over the world, but the sounds create got been tagged yesteryear province together with described together with a visitor to the site tin create got a audio journeying around the world.

You simply select your province of origin, your goal together with how many stops you lot desire to make. You together with therefore larn offered a alternative of itineraries alongside stops at diverse destinations together with descriptions of what you lot volition hear there. You select the 1 you lot desire together with and therefore the site edits together the private sounds to create a unique audio journeying for you. You tin together with therefore download your mp3 audio journey, withdraw heed to it online or shipping it to a friend.

• To endeavor this larn to the Book a Transit purpose of the site. It's simply similar booking a flying on an airline website (except that it's gratuitous together with a lot to a greater extent than user friendly!!)

Alternatively you lot tin search the database of private files yesteryear country, keyword or creator together with simply download the sounds you lot want. All the sounds are licensed nether creative common 2.0 therefore you lot tin relieve together with reuse them according to the limitations defined yesteryear that license.

• To access the database of sounds larn to Search for sounds.

How to utilization this alongside students

• You tin utilization the sounds for visualisations. Get the students to withdraw heed alongside shut eyes together with therefore write nigh what they heard. Or they tin create a storey from what they heard.
• You could collect 4 or v clips for students to withdraw heed to together with and therefore larn them to create a chapter / episode of a storey around each one.
• You could utilization them for grammer do ( e.g. introduce continuous "Someone is speaking." etc.)
• You could larn the students to utilization the site to conception a vacation alongside 4 or v destinations together with therefore utilization the descriptions inwards the itinerary to state what they 'will / are going to' do at each place. They tin together with therefore select the best holiday. For yesteryear tense do they tin tell other students what the did on their vacation piece the students withdraw heed to the sounds.
• For vocabulary do they could simply withdraw heed together with state the things they hear. This volition in all probability involve a lot of guessing, therefore you lot could extend this for do of modals of probability (e.g. It powerfulness live on somebody eating, It can't live on inwards Argentina. That must live on a auto door etc.)
• You could utilization this site to plough over students inspiration to collect their ain sounds together with to tell the residue of the shape nigh them. They could fifty-fifty upload them to the site together with portion them.
• They could create their ain audio journeys ( e.g. Going to school, what they did at the weekend etc.)
• You could play 'Guess the sound' equally a warmer alongside educatee together with laurels points to each educatee or team.
• You could inquire students to respect their favourite sounds or verbalize nigh what the sounds remind them of. (e.g. This is 1 of my favourites. It's the telephone phone to prayer. This 1 was recorded inwards Delhi, but it reminds me of when I lived inwards Cairo. I went out to Giza 1 eventide together with listened equally thousands of mosques from all over Cairo erupted inwards to a grand symphony of sound.)
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• You tin utilization the sounds to create atmosphere for storey telling activities or educatee plays
• You tin play the John Cage game together with simply larn the students to sit down silently together with withdraw heed to the sounds around them inwards the schoolhouse classroom ( for 4 mins together with 33 seconds) together with therefore verbalize nigh what they heard. You could equally good tell them nigh the famous John Cage composition 4'33" later together with inquire them what they cry back of it.
  
• You tin play "Where am I?" yesteryear playing them 1 of the sounds together with bespeak them to estimate where you lot are. Try this one. I'm inwards a cafe inwards Moscow getting some coffee

What I liked nigh this site

• It's a wonderful gratuitous resources alongside a huge collection of sounds.
• It tin actually larn students thinking nigh the audio surroundings they alive in.
• I dear the consider that the sounds are tagged to countries together with that students tin majority a audio journey.
• The creative common license

What I wasn't therefore certain about

• Some of the audio journeys are quite long if you lot add together a lot of stops
• Some of the sounds are quite odd together with could require quite a high grade of linguistic communication to describe, but I cry back this simply way that you lot create got to select the action that you lot utilization carefully together with live on selective.

Anyway. This is a site that I actually enjoyed together with I'm immediately determined to operate out together with firstly recording some of my ain audio adventures. As I'm based inwards Kingdom of Morocco I consider I would complete this posting alongside the sounds of the Marrakech market recorded yesteryear Reza Tahami.

To download whatever of the sounds you lot simply demand to correct click together with and therefore click 'Save As..'

Best

Nik