From The Verge · Terrence O'Brien · · 1 min
Earth Garden: Travel the Globe Through Audio
Discover Earth Garden, an interactive sound map that lets you listen to environmental field recordings from around the world.
In brief
Discover Earth Garden, an interactive sound map that lets you listen to environmental field recordings from around the world. Earth Garden lets you explore global field recordings on an interactive globe, providing a soothing audio journey across urban and natural environments. Originally reported by The Verge.
Explore the world through sound
Earth Garden offers an interactive digital globe that lets you travel the world through real environmental field recordings.
“Earth Garden gives you a globe to explore with real field recordings taken from various locations.”
Radio map meets natural audio
Modeled after the popular radio map Radio Garden, the web app trades live radio broadcasts for localized sounds like ocean waves or crickets.
“Earth Garden is inspired by Radio Garden (which you should also check out) except, instead of exploring the world via radio, it’s environmental sounds.”
Built for work, sleep, or listening
Field recordings make versatile background audio for productivity and rest, while offering rich details for focused active listening.
“They’re great background noise for working or sleeping. But they’re also great for active listening...”
Powered by community audio crowdsourcing
The audio clips are pulled directly from Freesound, resulting in varying sound quality and a heavier concentration of sounds across North America and Europe.
“The recordings are all pulled from Freesound , which does mean quality can vary, and volume between clips can be inconsistent.”
Relax with continuous ambient soundscapes
Users can set the globe to auto-rotate as audio transitions smoothly between locations, or layer generic ambient drone synth tones under the recordings.
“You can even click a button to put some generic ambient drones in the background.”
The essence
Earth Garden lets you explore global field recordings on an interactive globe, providing a soothing audio journey across urban and natural environments.
