Donate

Your donation will help the iiMap website to continue as a live website after the first year of grant funding expires. Initially, the project was supported by Sound and Music Dimensions Award from March 2023 to March 2024. If you like the concept and would like to see the continuation of the site (which will cost £170 per annum) please donate as much as you can manage. We very much welcome any amount no matter how small.

The Project

iiMap aims to collect memories and ordinary familiar sounds specific to people and place, highlighting dialects and mannerisms that characterise roots and converting those creative influences into something digital that can be shared with others. The Audio Identity and Inspiration or iiMap is a carefully considered and authentically local ‘Favourites Selection’ including but not exclusively highlighting the Orkney Islands in Northern Scotland, UK.

Objectives

• Collect written memories of ordinary and familiar sounds relating to an individual place and its people. For example, industry, transport, markets, voices, sport being played, children playing, agriculture, street noise, wildlife etc
• Collect audio snippets (up to 60 seconds long) to accompany these stories both from those who complete the survey and have audio to submit, and from existing partner archives in the form of a link or a sound bite
• Create a special online digital sound and story archive, searchable in categories that can be shared by future creatives, and anyone interested in exploring these sounds

How can you get involved?

• Tell us any stories of familiar sounds, specific to place and a period in history it stems from
• Where possible (not essential) submit audio and/or suggest a link to where the sound may be found