the radio aporee ::: maps project reached a downright Taoist level today with the uploading of the 10,000th global collaborative phonography sound sample. I was watching closely as the numbers crept upwards and timed it so that my latest batch would coincide with this day — it seemed auspicious. I’ve uploaded a total of 621 four-minute files from twenty countries. By my accounting, the 10,000th sample, my 615th recording (at the 550 bus stop on the LTU campus in Bundoora at Plenty Road) follows:
If you go to the main interface at aporee::maps and go to ‘search’ in the lower left, and choose the ‘:::maps’ option and type in ‘neoscenes’ (check the ‘place, sound’ button) — you will get a full scrolling list of my contributions. Or, you can simple click on the aporee category in this blog and have the locations come up there as small maps as above.
Kudos to the initiator, artist, phonographer, (cook!), and programmer behind the project, Udo Noll — thanks much for giving all us participants the possibility to … participate … in your creative dreaming!