Phonambient

Abstract

Phonambient is a project of documentation and artistic transformation of contemporary sound heritage. It intends to record and preserve the sounds that define a city or region in a digital database (www.phonambient.com), including soundscapes, localised sources, acoustic phenomena, musical fragments, phonetics and phonology. Phonambient was conceived and developed by a large team led by Sonoscopy, an association of experimental music and sound art based in Porto, Portugal, thus contributing to the preservation of a sound memory that is intended to be critical and creative. The implementation of the project has been done systematically in several cities, respecting a logic of archiving field recordings and subsequent thinking and artistic transformation.