Earthsong

https://earthsong.world/

Huge 2025 EARTH SONG update is here!

• EARTH SONG is now fully responsive and compatible with mobile devices and tablets. All features, including special audio effects work on mobile!
• Added universal navigation menu to easily move between different parts of the application.
• Added extensive “help” documentation (accessible via the GUIDE menu item) that explains how to interact with different parts of Earthsong.
• Big upgrades to journey snapshot SAVE and RECALL functionality.
• Location and sound fetching are now faster and more robust.
• Entire application is now in TypeScript!
• Fixed numerous bugs and inconsistencies.
• Many enhancements to the Earthsong Sound Portal.
• Adjusted animations and visual elements to run more smoothly and efficiently.

EARTH SONG is...

• a portal for exploring the sounds of other places
• a tool for sonic inspiration
• a surprising and unpredictable sonic adventure

What does it do?

• Listen to sounds from anywhere on Earth
• Discover surprising interactions and harmonies between sounds
• Build your own soundscapes in EARTH SONG's interactive 3-dimensional Sound Portal
• Mutate and transform sounds in real-time: reverse direction, change playback speed, "tune" sounds to each other

How does it work?

• Choose a place to explore by selecting a point on the map
• EARTH SONG searches freesound.org - a massive collaborative database of user-contributed audio recordings - for sounds from that location
• 5 sounds are selected at random and loaded into the EARTH SONG Sound Portal, a sonic playground where you can audition, manipulate and mix sounds to create your own custom sound environment
• Registered users can save and recall their favorite journeys

Technologies

• Next.js
• TypeScript/JavaScript
• Node.js with RESTful API
• PostgreSQL
• p5.js for animation and sound visualization.
• tone.js for sound playback and manipulation.
• mapbox for the interactive globe.
• Sounds are sourced from Freesound.org, a collaborative database of user-contributed audio content. All sounds are released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.

Thanks to

• Sara El Abed, Anton Kolomoiets and Lukas Prochazka for technical and emotional support.
• Michael Jeffrey Lee for the name EARTH SONG, which is also a song from the forthcoming Budokan Boys album, THE OOZE.
• Sunny Sun, who shared cloud sim, the p5 sketch that Earthsong’s cloud overlay animation was adapted from.
• Freesound.org and all who contribute to it.

https://earthsong.world/