According to the site, "Open Sound New Orleans is a community media project. The idea is to share recordings of the sounds of our city. This is an open-source project, meaning that we believe in the ability of the community as a whole to use the source materials contributed by users to the site, under certain conditions."Superimposed on a remarkably sharp Digital Globe aerial image of the city where I lived for more than 20 years, icons represent voice, music, and ambient sound files. Click one and a gentleman talks about pigeons taking over his mailbox, another and a streetcar rocks along the St Charles track, another and the birds in Audubon Park honk and chirp and scream.
While the Internet can't carry NOLA smells-- wisteria and sweet olive, crabs and shrimps and chicory coffee, mildew and wet leaves -- I can close my eyes, open my ears, and travel down in memory to a place I once called home.
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