“Sound-Seeker is a map that privileges the ear over the eye. The project reaches across the city’s geographic, economic, educational, cultural and racial divides. It is at once a historical record and a subjective representation of the city. It is what each user wishes it to be and it is ever growing, ever changing and totally interactive.” www.soundseeker.org

Andrea Polli, along with the NYSoundmap project and The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, created this wonderful collaborative sound map of the city. The project asks users to document sounds throughout NYC and plot them on a map. We’re exploring a similar collaborative approach to sound gathering for the Colors of New York, with a different style of documentary-based mapping. Instead of mapping sounds to specific locations in the city, we’re interested in mapping sounds to a color palette.