Sound is still a very new field of study and, because of this, there are not many digital humanities projects that have delved into the subject. Due to the complex nature of sound waves, it can be quite difficult analyze how they react both in a real world space and with each other. That being said, there have been a few other tools and projects that explore a similar field.
Sounding Out!:
Sounding Out! is a weekly, peer-edited blog that focuses sound studies founded in 2009. The online publication functions as an online archive of crowd-sourced information. “As a scholarly publication, Sounding Out! is peer-reviewed, but following an open, developmental model fostered by digital humanities, in which editors and advisors are known to our writers, and provide several rounds of feedback, commentary, and collaboration before publication.” -J. Stoever-Ackerman, Editor-in-Chief
The project works closely with Provoke! as they share a common goal: To advance the exploration of sound and its uses.
Sonic Dictionary:
The Sonic Dictionary is described on its homepage as “a digital database of sounds that can be accessed and searched freely as if it were a “dictionary.”” Founded in the fall of 2013 in the Audiovisualities Lab at Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Insitute, the project set off with a goal of doing what previous, similar projects failed to do: to create an archive of not only information on sound, but the audio files to go with it. Where other databases contain a large amount of written information, the Sonic Dictionary provides interactive audio to make the information more accessible to a larger audience.
The project was co-directed by Mary Caton Lingold, one of the editors of Provoke!.
jPlayer:
jPlayer as an open-source, completely free media library designed for the purpose of playing both video and audio files seamlessly across multiple, different platforms created by Happy Worm. After May 2009, when the tool first entered beta, it quickly advanced to reach its final version in July 2010. Written in JavaScript, this tool can be implemented into any website to assist with playing media as needed for the project.
jPlayer was used to design the audio player used in Provoke!.
