Our planet sparkle and crackle with a rich cacophony of sound — but it constantly exchange over time . Now , a team of scientistswant to record the noises that surround us each and every Earth Day — which just happens to be today — to see precisely how it spay over clock time .
Led by Bryan Pijanowski , the idea is to enlist grand of people across the world to use theSoundscape Recorder smartphone appto carry through the sounds that fill our ears for next inquiry . Over sentence , he hop to analyze the recordings to measure how our sonic surround is vary .
While Pijanowski commonly work in removed locations — like the Sonoran desert or rainwater forests in Borneo — he ’s particularly concerned in the noises within urban center , Town and suburbs . The thought is unproblematic : you download the app , record the sounds of your environment , then answer a few questions about where you are , what you heard and how you feel . The datum ’s then uploaded to the Global Soundscape database for depth psychology .
By pinning the recording initiative to Earth Day — which happens every year on April 22nd — Pijanowski hopes to make it “ something everyone goes out and does ” so that he “ can begin to characterize those sounds and liken them from class to year . ” Over meter , he ’ll exploit out whether our satellite is getting noisier , how the sounds we make are changing , and what it mean for the world to inhabit . Godownload the appand get recording . [ Soundscape RecorderviaWired ]
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