Earth Garden lets users explore environmental sounds from around the world
A new interactive globe maps field recordings from various locations, allowing users to listen to natural and urban soundscapes.
What happened
Earth Garden, inspired by Radio Garden, offers an interactive globe populated with field recordings sourced from Freesound. Users can explore environmental audio from locations including remote Atlantic islands, Tanzania, and Manhattan, with options to rotate the globe automatically or manually click to transition between sound locations. The platform includes generic ambient drones as an optional background layer.
Context
The tool provides both passive listening for background ambiance during work or sleep and active listening for focused attention to environmental detail. However, recording quality and volume consistency vary due to reliance on Freesound submissions, and geographic coverage is uneven, with concentrations in the US and Europe—particularly the UK—rather than global distribution.