Sound journal notes record individual reactions to listening to the acoustic environment of every day life. This folder offers a collection of notes contributed by many different individuals around the world.

Contributions are welcomed. Please send your journal notes about the world soundscape to: garywf@uoregon.edu

Catharina Dyrssen: Haga Park Evening Soundwalk. "Around nine p. m., the air was still warmed by sunlight as we stepped out of the buses at the Haga park in eastern Stockholm. Walk silently, was the stipulated rule, which turned some of us into solemn listeners and some into giggling children."

Gary Ferrington: First Encounters With The Soundscape. This edited document contains a collection of remembrances by various individuals of their first encounters with listening to the soundscape.

Gary Ferrington: Remembering The Wind. Reflections about the sound of wind growing up in the Columbia River Gorge in the American Northwest.

Gary Ferrington: Remembrances of Soundscapes Past. What sounds do you recall from your youth? The following excerpts of senior writer remembrances of soundscapes from the early part of our century reflect a time much different from ours.

Cathy Kmita: Morning sounds of Korea. Canadian ears experience the Korean soundscape.

Eric Somers: Bell Concert. The most exciting listening event for me at Stockholm Hey Listen! was the performance of "Concerto Borealis" for the church bells of Stockholm.

Claude Schryer: Two observations about the soundscape in Thailand. Reflections about a recent journey - Noise and Peace and Buddhist inner soundscape

Clemens von Reusner. Intercity-Express. Reflections of a July morning Intercity Express Journey from Braunschweig to Frankfurt

Bill Walsh: One Less Voice in the Night. A recent loss stimulates memories of listening to the radio as a child.

Hans Ulrich Werner: Stockholm Soundscape Polaroids An earwitness account of Stockholm, June, 1998.

Hildegard Westerkamp: Silent Night in the City. Snow changes the soundscape of an urban environment at Christmas.

Richard Windeyer: Paris. "I've never felt the weight of the history of a place in such a tactile way the sheer age of that city permeates the air (in addition to all the car exhaust). And despite all the traffic noise, there is still a sense of the aural scale-of-living for which Paris was built."