100 field recordings · live now
The world,
by ear.
whisp.earth is a listening map. Spin the globe, tap a place, and hear what it actually sounds like — a Chamonix street market, rain over Bohemia, Etna venting, chickens in a German farmyard.
Why sound
Looking shows you a place. Listening puts you inside it.
A photograph frames a place from the outside. A field recording surrounds you from within it: the language on the street, the weather overhead, how far away the traffic is, whether the birds have decided it is morning yet. Sound carries the parts of somewhere that a camera walks straight past.
Every recording on whisp.earth was made by a person standing somewhere real — microphones in the rain, beside a river, at a protest, on a volcano. Nothing is synthesised and nothing is looped from a sound library. You are hearing the planet, one place at a time.
From the field
Real places, recorded as they sound.
Gora Zborow, Poland, microsounds on rock
Garaż, Poland
4:05Avenue Wielemans Ceuppens summer ambience
71, Belgium
5:00Podzamcze, Poland, evening in square
Plac Jurajski, Poland
3:39"Wenn alle Brünnlein fließen"
10, Germany
1:43Iles du Frioul - Avec les "sauteurs" des rochers
Chemin de Saint-Estève, France
4:27Iles du Frioul - Bruit des vagues dans un petite crique.
Chemin de Saint-Estève, France
6:17Iles du Frioul - Ambiance de la plage
Chemin de Saint-Estève, France
5:12Frioul - Ambiance Bateaux
Centre dincendie et de secours du Frioul, France
6:25Iles du Frioul - l'ambiance bat son plein, cris et baignade
Rue de la Reine Jeanne, France
5:51
Recordings are made by field recordists around the world and shared through radio aporee under open licences. Artwork is generated per recording from its place and story.
The world is always playing.
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