SOUND ECOLOGY
An interactive web documentary on noise pollution and our inability to endure silence.

Noise overload. Urban densification. Portable personal sound environments. We live in an increasingly noisy world. Sound Ecology is an interactive investigation into our sonic surroundings that aims to make the user more aware and conscious of them. The project stimulates the imagination and offers an immersive 3D space to present sound online. In so doing, it provides an unprecedented media platform for emphasizing the seriousness of noise pollution and putting it into perspective as part of a wider reflection on our relationship to sounds and to silence.

The four “soundscapes”—the term was coined by Canadian composer and environmentalist R. Murray Schafer—constitute a unique immersive experience, a playful multimedia journey. They are made up of 15 short documentaries directed by Alexandra Guité and presenting multiple extraordinary characters who live in close connection with sound.

Translated into four languages and awarded several international prizes, this web documentary provides a better understanding of the issues related to noise pollution and introduces the concept of soundscapes through an interactive audio-visual experience.