Listening, analysis and sound teaching
Soundscape Studio
A teaching toolkit for listening and field recording. 264 exercises in 16 categories and seven curated paths, a recorder with metering, a geolocated sound archive, a spectrogram, a Composer on any map location, a teacher's guide.
- Author's contribution
- Concept, teaching design and development, in use in the author's courses.
- Context
- Teaching, Conservatorio G.B. Martini di Bologna
- Teaching, Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata
- Status
- In use
- Data
- Recordings, map and progress stay on the device, the app works fully offline.
Ecosystem and applied cases
The project
A toolkit for teaching listening and field recording, adopted in the Conservatory and Fine Arts Academy courses taught by the author. 264 guided exercises in 16 categories, filtered by context and goal, cover active listening, field recording and soundscape analysis.
The interactive map records and geolocates soundscapes, building a sound archive of the territory; the real-time spectral analyser (20Hz-10kHz) visualises sound while you listen. The Composer turns recordings into compositions, with clips arranged on Schafer's categories and mixed by moving through the map space. Exports to KML, GeoJSON and CSV for research; works completely offline.
Seven curated paths line up the exercises by level and goal and track the ones completed. The recorder has gain, a limiter and a peak meter; every recording exports to the Soundscape Annotation Atelier following the Soundscape Interchange 1.1 contract, and a printable teacher's guide covers the typical lesson, deliverables and an assessment grid.
Features
- 264 exercises and 7 curated paths
- Interactive map
- Recorder with metering
- Composer on any location
- Export to the Atelier
- Teacher's guide
- 100% offline
Characteristics
- Audio
- Maps
- Offline
- Export
Tech stack
- JavaScript
- Vite
- Web Audio API
- Leaflet
- IndexedDB
Collaborations and research
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