Let's build an imaginary soundscape, by imagining to have such a powerful ear that it can perceive sounds coming from an endless acoustic horizon.

To partecipate to the project is very simple … using the appropriate form (click on "to partecipate") describe the sounds you are hearing in this moment in the place in which you are… sounds coming from the room where you are with your computer, or from your home, or from outside, from the city or the countryside.

Describing the soundsas best as it is possible, it will be easy for us to imagine them, and also to try to synthetize them in a way that resembles them.

You can also add any kind of comments and reflections of your own, memories and other thoughts the sound suggested to you. There is no space limitation: you can also send a recording af the sound itself.

The official language of THEBIGEAR is English , but contributions in every language will be accepted.

The goal of THEBIGEAR is to build an imaginary (virtual?) soundscape, consisting of sounds that come from all over the world, from different ways of listening and listening locations, as if an unique big ear (with an unlimited acoustic horizon) perceived them.

The software which runs THEBIGEAR automatically will insert your contributions into a hypothetical listening day, maintaining the time your listening report was sent.
The official time of THEBIGEAR is the one of the Aesthetic Flow Bureau, and the times of any single intervention will be related to that time.

THEBIGEAR is at the same time a literary and musical operation:
the imaginary soundscape we create, will be described by all the contributions we will accumulate in an operation af collective and collaborative writing. At the same time, as soon as the soundscape will be composed, we'll try to reproduce its acoustic aspect.

Yoy can also partecipate in a continuous way, by signing up in THEBIGEAR mailing list (click on "mailing list"): through the list you will be informed about the progress of the project and kindly invited to send further descriptions of your acoustic environment.

Thank you

P:S: The idea of THEBIGEAR was generated by long reflections about the piece "Fuori" by Giuseppe Chiari: I would like to thank him

THEBIGEAR project is coordinated by Francesco Michi
they collaborate:
Stefano Maurri (software)
Massimo Liverani (sounds)

P.S: This could be a possible discussion topic: the building of such an imaginary (virtual?, possible?) soundscape, utilizing descriptions of sounds (and correleted considerations) forwarded through Internet can enlarge our hypothetical acoustic space, creating (even if in an imaginary way) a common experience ( or an hyperexperience, or, again, a "web experience") of different sounds.