14 | DIY soundmaps - with Tae Hong Park

Soundproofist

You don't need a large budget to measure and map sound. Dr. Tae Hong Park, a professor at NYU, founded the Citygram soundmap project and launched a new airplane-noise tracker project called "Get Noisy." In this interview, he shares details of how he built affordable microphones that can be attached to a window. They send data to your computer through a web browser. His concept is "use what you already have." Learn more about his work with noise, soundscapes, and music in this conversation with Phill and Cary of Soundproofist.

Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Tae Hong talks about his background (00:01:03)

3. Tae Hong discusses how he began thinking about soundmaps (00:04:33)

4. The inspiration for Citygram (00:07:18)

5. Machine learning (00:08:28)

6. "Sound is very transient" (00:09:32)

7. Airplane noise (00:11:48)

8. The project does not expose people's private data (00:16:30)

9. This is labeled data (00:18:12)

10. "Edge computing" (00:19:59)

11. A researcher in Germany is tracking heartbeat and sleeping patterns in relation to airplane noise (00:22:30)

12. Designing a project to use what everyone already has (00:23:31)

13. Simple DIY microphones (00:24:46)

14. You need to have a lot of sensing stations to create a sound map (00:27:50)

15. Designed to work with a browser, challenges of that (00:28:00)

16. "This is kind of like a new thermometer..." (00:33:38)

17. During shelter in place, a lot of people noticed the silence (00:39:13)

18. Impressions of soundscapes/memories that relate to a particular place (00:41:56)

19. The "GetNoisy" project (airplane noise) (00:48:01)

20. Citygram will offer a one-stop product for data collection instead of DIY (00:49:24)

21. Wrap up (00:54:09)