Profiles
The London Sound Survey is an online collection of Creative Commons licensed recordings of many different aspects of London life.
The project's goals are documentary rather than artistic. The Survey seeks to build an extensive archive of recordings which, it is hoped, will one day provide a detailed and representative account of what it sounds like to live in early 21st-century London.
The website has several different sections. Daytime and nighttime sound maps present ambient place-specific recordings organised into grid-squares on top of satellite images of London.
A sound actions section has recordings of those sounds produced by people to affect others, and which are broadcast in an impersonal way. They include football chants, market traders' cries, sirens, church bells, carnivals, political demonstrations, and much else.
The wildlife section is self-explanatory, and a historical section consists of literary references to London sounds spanning the centuries; the earliest describes the destruction of London Bridge in the eleventh century.
The London Sound Survey is run as a hobby and is entirely non-commercial.