below 20

[Track #024] Vienna apartment

2012-03-08T13:14:00.001+01:00

#024 Vienna apartment by below20
location: vienna, austria | time: 17:00 5 March 2012 | ambient: apartment interior | author: margaret honda

[Track #023] Quiet Lake

2011-12-07T12:37:00.002+01:00

#023 Quiet Lake by below20
location: moose lake, pictou county, nova scotia, canada. | time: 30 april 2011 | ambient: forest lake | author: mark brennan

[Track #022] bees&japonica

2011-11-24T14:02:00.002+01:00

#022 bees&japonica by below20
location: burrington, north devon, uk | time: late morning, 23 April 2010 | ambient: garden | author: peter batchelor

[Track #021] judenbad friedberg

2011-11-14T16:01:00.002+01:00

#021 judenbad friedberg by below20
location: friedberg (hessen), germany | time: 28 february 2009 4:00 p.m. | ambient: cave | author: lasse-marc riek

[Track #020] Bois de la Fiotte, Champeau-en-Morvan

2011-11-03T12:30:00.002+01:00

#020 Bois de la Fiotte, Champeau-en-Morvan by below20
location: bois de la fiotte, champeau-en-morvan, france | time: 8h30 a.m 02/03/2009 | ambient: forest, winter | author: Cédric Peyronnet

[Track #019] Bermuda-night-treefrogs

2011-10-21T10:39:00.001+02:00

#019 Bermuda-night-treefrogs by below20
location: st.george's parish, bermuda | time: night, june 2009 | ambient: outside | author: eric somers

[Track #018] A quel jeu jouent-ils

2011-09-04T14:47:00.001+02:00

#018 A quel jeu jouent-ils by below20
location: paris, france | time: 9 october 2009 2:00 a.m. | ambient: bedroom | author: anton mobin

[Track #017] Dieweg Cemetery

2011-09-04T12:10:00.003+02:00

#017 Dieweg Cemetery by below20
location: brussels, belgium | time: july, summer | ambient: sunny | author: JM Charcot

[Press] Nella Nebbia

2011-05-12T17:21:00.000+02:00

Nella Nebbia is a monthly free press magazine distributed in a large part of Piedmont region (Biella, Vercelli, Novara, Turin), Italy focusing on arts and cultural theme. Marco Cassisa, one of the author of the journal wrote an essay about Sound museum of silence that has been released on the may issue. So check it out on the web, or directly on the paper if you are in zone!

[Track #016] Living room with pc

2011-04-26T11:26:00.001+02:00

#016 living room with pc by below20
location: montreal, canada | time: 16 april 2011, 7:30 am | ambient: living room | author: eric boivin

[Press] Below 20 goes New York: Listen Party!

2011-04-17T11:56:00.008+02:00

Listen Party is a New York based audio-journal, now releasing the third issue: In Transit.
For this issue the #010 track "Snowalk" was selected and published. Check it out on this great journal! Below 20 goes New York city!

[Track #015] My room

2011-04-16T10:54:00.001+02:00

#015 my room by below20
location: frankfurt am main, germany | time: 31 april 2011, evening | ambient: living room | author: william cook

[Track #014] TrentoSound008

2011-03-11T12:07:00.002+01:00

#014 TrentoSounds008 by below20
location: auditorium del conservatorio di musica "F.A. Bonporti",
Palazzo Consolati, trento, italy | time: 4 march 2011 5.30 p.m. | ambient: street | author: osvaldo cibils

[Track #013] Road noise (silent mix)

2011-01-30T18:52:00.003+01:00

#013 Road noise (silent mix) by below20
location: new york state, u.s.a | time: 3 a.m. | ambient: highway | author: myroslaw bytz | this is a silent version made for below20 of the track road noise (farewell version)

[Track #012] Unterzone (silent mix)

2011-01-28T12:30:00.001+01:00

#012 Unterzone (silent mix) by below20
location: abertawe sound studio, swansea, uk | time: 2010 | ambient: recording studio | author: jeremy gluck | recorded by ray boothby

[Track #011] Computer

2011-01-27T17:51:00.002+01:00

#011 Computer by below20
location: swansea, uk | time: early 2010 | ambient: author's house | author: jeremy gluck

[Press] Open call: silence hunt

2011-01-27T12:14:00.004+01:00

Sound Museum of Silence is looking for silent (or even better, silence) recording for add into the archive and for the new issue of the magazine. Below 20 ask to all to people to share this call, this page, the viral video or the advertising images in order to grow, be known, and have resources for events and pubblication. Help is needed!
Let the hunt for silence start...

[Press] Viral video: Silence!

2010-12-18T17:08:00.006+01:00

silence! from aaron inker on Vimeo.

Let's get viral!!! that's the first video advertising for the museum, spread the world and share the link around, everybody have to know about the project!

[Track #010] Snowalk

2010-12-02T14:07:00.001+01:00

#010 Snowalk by below20
location: masserano, italy | time: afternoon | ambient: snowy outside | author: christian zegna

[Press] Cage against the machine

2010-11-22T20:35:00.003+01:00

The sound museum of silence sustains the cage against the machine . Take a look at http://www.catm.co.uk

[Track #009] S Servolo night in my bed

2010-11-21T18:04:00.000+01:00

#009 S Servolo night in my bed by below20
location: san servolo island, venezia, italy | time: night | ambient: bedroom | author: christian zegna

[Track #008] 30 people

2010-11-21T17:59:00.001+01:00

#008 30 people by below20
location: fondazione bevilacqua la masa, palazzetto tito, venezia, italy | time: noon | ambient: exhibition place, public project presentation | author: aaron inker

[Press] Below20 magazine #0 (prototype)

2010-11-12T17:12:00.004+01:00

Here the prototype of the upcoming magazine based on the sound museum of silence archive.
And here the playlist related.
#0 by below20

[Track #007] La stanchezza

2010-11-08T13:39:00.003+01:00

#007 la stanchezza by below20
location: siena, italy | time: night | ambient: bedroom | author: silvia pigozzo

[Track #006] Bonbai

2010-11-04T17:50:00.002+01:00

#006 bonbai by below20
excerpt from venue at interzona by bonbai
location: interzona, verona, italy | time: evening | ambient: live music club | author: bonbai

[Press] Arm your Sampler

2010-11-04T16:56:00.004+01:00

This series of 4 pictures, called "arm your sampler!" will be printed soon, and released to spread the world and ask for sound contribution to the archive. if someone wants to have it in .pdf for any reason -like printing and spreading for itself- just send a mail.

[Track #005] (45)

2010-11-01T16:43:00.004+01:00

#005 (45) by below20
excerpt from "Mangiare una mela con una gamba sola a mezzanotte nella mia cucina." by lorenzo mazzi
location: verona, italy | time: midnight | ambient: kitchen | author: lorenzo mazzi

[Press] Arm your Sampler

2010-10-29T17:01:00.002+02:00

[Track #004] Holocaust tower

2010-10-26T21:16:00.003+02:00

#004 holocaust tower by below20
excerpt from field recording "at the holocaust-tower" by andreas bick
location: holocaust tower, jewish museum, berlin, germany | time: evening | ambient: museum | author: andreas bick

[Press] Arm your Sampler

2010-10-25T15:46:00.002+02:00

[Track #003] 1:26 a.m.

2010-10-22T09:50:00.003+02:00

#003 1:26 a.m. by below20
location: masserano, italy | time: 01:26 | ambient: bedroom | author: christian zegna

[Track #002] Crackle

2010-10-18T14:47:00.007+02:00

#002 Crackle by below20
location: venice, italy | time: 13:30 | ambient: empty room | author: aaron inker

[Track #001] 4'33'' - J.Cage

2010-10-16T12:30:00.004+02:00

#001 4'33'' Cage by below20
4'33'' by John Cage, 1952. Composition in 3 act for any instrument or instruments. Performed by David Tudor

[Press] Arm your Sampler

2010-10-14T18:03:00.002+02:00

below 20 is an attemp to create an imaginary museum. The theme of this museum is the silence. The interesting thing, a paradox, is that the museum will be a sound museum.
Silence can be defined as a soundscape with loudness below 20 dB (decibel). So this will be an archive of recording of soundscape "below20dB". This is an open and on-going project, so everyone can contribute with a silence, send it by email or over the dropbox, and every track will be under creative common attribution noncommercial share alike license.
With the sound some information are required like: place of the rec, time of the rec and of the day when was taken, type of ambient in wich the rec was taken, and of course the author.
Based on this cataloque of infos, some publication will be released (like magazine + cd) showing a particular topic.
Every contribution is appreciated, so arm your sampler!