The long-term vision of my project is simple:
– Record space.
– Upload it.
– Use it anywhere.
With enough participants, the Soundmap will become a searchable database of real-world acoustics – a kind of Google Street View for sound. Artists, researchers, and developers could then place sounds into acoustically true locations without ever going there.
Whether you want to preserve the sonic fingerprint of a historic building or make your VR app sound real, this approach makes spatial audio design more perceptual, democratic, and creative.
Just as photography changed how we see the world, acoustic photography could change how we hear it.
