Received this tip from Spacing Wire reader James Koole — an interesting sound project from New York City. Basically, you can use sound captured from the street to make your own song/soundtrack. You can even save your mix. From the Wired web site:
As if getting jostled awake by the screeches, alarms and hollering of a city that never sleeps isn’t bad enough, a web-based art project wants you to make Lower East Side noises into audible art. But the noises are much less annoying when you can control them. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum has commissioned an online exhibit called Folk Songs for the Five Points. It starts with an interactive map of Manhattan’s downtown neighborhood.
Colored circles dot the grid of streets, marking spots where the museum’s artist-in-residence David Gunn recorded an assortment of audio clips. Each hue represents a different genre of sound, ranging from spoken to musical to ambient. Up to five clips can play at once, each with its own playback controls at the bottom of the page. Vectors on the map can be shifted with the click of a mouse, layering various sounds