In Chicago Chicago Sound Museum Since 1998, Milkwood Foundation has been recording stories and sounds all over the city of Chicago. This work can be heard online at the Chicago Sound Museum. Experimental Sound Studio ESS is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion, production, presentation, and preservation of innovative and diverse approaches to the sonic arts, and to the integration of these art forms into the public. Lampo Lampo is a non-profit group based in Chicago that showcases artists working in electronic and electroacoustic music, free improvisation, sound art and other new audio forms. Vocalo.org Vocalo.org is radio made by listeners. They take the material you submit (audio, text, video) and turn it into entertaining and informative broadcast material that plays on 89.5 FM in Northwest Indiana and soon Chicago, and streams live on their web site. Artists Christopher DeLaurenti Christopher DeLaurenti is a phonographer who fashions pieces from orchestra intermissions, political actions, and other unusual field recordings. You can listen to his Four Protest Symphonies on UbuWeb. Jeff Gburek - Orphan Sound Lasse-Marc Riek - Field Reports Riek's work focuses on acoustic ecology and bio-acoustics by means of field recordings of society and nature. Resources bambooturtle Educational site by audio professor Jim Lee. Quietamerican.org San Francisco artist Aaron Ximm documents his work in field recording and his growing list of sound resources.

Collections/Communities Gruenrekorder - The Sound of Snow and Ice A collection of pure field recordings of snow and ice from around the globe. Gruenrekorder - Autumn Leaves A compilation that explores sound and environment, featuring everything from carefully crafted spoken word pieces and compelling electro-acoustic compositions, to the purest forms of unedited and unsequenced phonography. In Place A UK-based blog focusing on field recording, sonic architecture, audible silence and the compositional arc. It features interviews, reviews, favorite place posts, and mp3s, and welcomes contributions. Khora khora offers a platform for UK-based artists working primarily with field recordings. Their aim is to seek out new phonographic and soundscape work and to contribute to ongoing discourse around such work. SoundTransit SoundTransit is a collaborative online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. Here you can book a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world, or search the database for sounds by different artists in various places. You can also contribute your recordings for others to enjoy. thirdbarn.org The thirdbarn.org is an experimental studio portal maintained by Scott Sherk and Pat Badt. Wunderkammer Wunderkammer is a blog covering environmental art.