Ears Wide Open: The OIC Soundscapes Challenge
What do you see, smell, taste, feel . . . and hear in this bustling street?
© Meredith Mullins
Turn Up the Sound on Your Travel Adventures
Take a moment. Close your eyes. What do you hear?
Silence? Auditory stimuli that provide clues to where you are? Sounds that might remain in your sense memory for some time to come?
Especially when we travel, all our senses are alive. We see. We smell. We touch. We taste. We hear.
Sights, smells, and a symphony of baa’s.
© Meredith Mullins
Travel adventures are enhanced when we are multisensory. Oh, I see. Soundscapes can expand our experience exponentially.
Often, one or more or our senses registers a memory. The vision of the Parthenon in the Athens moonlight or a camel fair in the dusty desert. The smell of French boulangeries as the early morning baguettes are baking. The warmth of the sand on a Thai beach or the humidity of an Amazon...
