LIVE SOUNDSCAPES AND BIRD LIFE CONNECTED IN REAL TIME ISTANBUL <--> TOKYO
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LIVE SOUNDSCAPES AND BIRD LIFE, CONNECTED IN REAL TIME CANLI SES MANZARALARI VE KUŞ YAŞAMI, GERÇEK ZAMANLI BİRBİRİNE BAĞLANIYOR
Turkey Scene
ISTANBUL İSTANBUL イスタンブール
TÜRKİYE TÜRKİYE トルコ
Otağ-ı Hümayun Garden Otağ-ı Hümayun Bahçesi オタウ・ヒュマーユン庭園
Japan Scene
TOKYO TOKYO 東京
JAPAN JAPONYA 日本
Sanshiro Pond Sanshiro Göleti 三四郎池
Local Livestream
Girl
Remote Livestream

Bird Journal

Yükleniyor...

BirdHub is an ongoing design research project and international collaboration between the BIRD Lab at Yıldız Technical University of Istanbul and the Kobayashi Lab at the University of Tokyo. Connecting two university campuses through real-time bioacoustic monitoring and shared soundscape interaction, the project explores acoustic connections between Istanbul and Tokyo.

Live environmental audio is streamed in both directions between the two campuses, allowing visitors — and potentially birds themselves — to hear distant soundscapes in real time.

Through this website, you can:

  • listen to live soundscapes from both campuses, separately or simultaneously,
  • explore a curated selection of 80 bird species and their songs,
  • and travel between two interconnected university campuses.

The scene represents the Otağ-ı Hümayun Garden on Yıldız Technical University's Davutpaşa Campus, where the live monitoring system and interactive installation are being developed and tested.

Project Team

BirdHub brings together expertise in interaction design, acoustics, and environmental informatics through the collaboration of researchers, designers, and students from the BIRD (Bio-centric Interaction Research & Design) Lab at Yıldız Technical University and the Kobayashi Lab at the University of Tokyo.

Building on ongoing dialogue with soundscape research at the Kobayashi Lab, this collaboration extends these explorations into a design context focused on environmental listening, campus bird biodiversity, and connections between distant places.

BIRD LAB / YTÜ
Umut Tasa
Arda Eden
İdil Şenel
Barış Öçal
Buğra Bal
Nuran Akarsu
KOBAYASHI LAB / UTOKYO
Hill Hiroki Kobayashi
Shimotoku Daisuke
Hong Haoran
Jiang Yukun
Yishi Sun
Fatima Khalid

Contact

Umut Tasa
Yıldız Technical University of Istanbul
utasa[at]yildiz.edu.tr
Hiroki Kobayashi
The University of Tokyo
kobayashi[at]csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Website Credits

Visual concept and illustrations: İdil Şenel
Web design and development: Barış Öçal, Buğra Bal

Recording Credits

Bird vocalization samples featured in the Bird Journals include following recordings from the Xeno-canto community archive.

XC645359 · XC839045 · XC988168 · XC210479 · XC1079914 · XC1020499 · XC956443 · XC481472 · XC899206 · XC831497 · XC996479 · XC1075414 · XC661792 · XC832525 · XC982464 · XC803293 · XC948991 · XC285949 · XC1036835 · XC805894 · XC175812 · XC996878 · XC992957 · XC805925 · XC412802 · XC408207 · XC285694 · XC915185 · XC793926 · XC1001933 · XC992370 · XC1072048 · XC79388 · XC914505 · XC1077472 · XC285804 · XC574136 · XC874576 · XC1082804 · XC947696 · XC285710 · XC285803 · XC542133 · XC299255 · XC236705 · XC993082 · XC894734 · XC942559 · XC533173 · XC945796 · XC1107554 · XC1103936 · XC894176 · XC1070806 · XC1088124 · XC1024253 · XC1083558 · XC314889 · XC1104628 · XC655679 · XC807830 · XC1106637 · XC804525 · XC1075277 · XC738681 · XC915048 · XC1106173 · XC1088279 · XC1080027 · XC991171 · XC1079999 · XC733992 · XC1044078 · XC1046013 · XC1003433 · XC1076066 · XC1103515 · XC1136220 · XC1080501 · XC1029700
Local Livestream
Man
Remote Livestream

Bird Journal

Yükleniyor...

BirdHub is an ongoing design research project and international collaboration between the BIRD Lab at Yıldız Technical University of Istanbul and the Kobayashi Lab at the University of Tokyo. Connecting two university campuses through real-time bioacoustic monitoring and shared soundscape interaction, the project explores acoustic connections between Istanbul and Tokyo.

Live environmental audio is streamed in both directions between the two campuses, allowing visitors — and potentially birds themselves — to hear distant soundscapes in real time.

Through this website, you can:

  • listen to live soundscapes from both campuses, separately or simultaneously,
  • explore a curated selection of 80 bird species and their songs,
  • and travel between two interconnected university campuses.

The scene represents Sanshiro Pond on the University of Tokyo's Hongo Campus, where live monitoring points stream environmental audio from different locations across the university landscape, including Sanshiro Pond and Fuji Forest, depending on technical availability.

Project Team

BirdHub brings together expertise in interaction design, acoustics, and environmental informatics through the collaboration of researchers, designers, and students from the BIRD (Bio-centric Interaction Research & Design) Lab at Yıldız Technical University and the Kobayashi Lab at the University of Tokyo.

Building on ongoing dialogue with soundscape research at the Kobayashi Lab, this collaboration extends these explorations into a design context focused on environmental listening, campus bird biodiversity, and connections between distant places.

BIRD LAB / YTÜ
Umut Tasa
Arda Eden
İdil Şenel
Barış Öçal
Buğra Bal
Nuran Akarsu
KOBAYASHI LAB / UTOKYO
Hill Hiroki Kobayashi
Shimotoku Daisuke
Hong Haoran
Jiang Yukun
Yishi Sun
Fatima Khalid

Contact

Umut Tasa
Yıldız Technical University of Istanbul
utasa[at]yildiz.edu.tr
Hiroki Kobayashi
The University of Tokyo
kobayashi[at]csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Website Credits

Visual concept and illustrations: İdil Şenel
Web design and development: Barış Öçal, Buğra Bal

Recording Credits

Bird vocalization samples featured in the Bird Journals include following recordings from the Xeno-canto community archive.

XC645359 · XC839045 · XC988168 · XC210479 · XC1079914 · XC1020499 · XC956443 · XC481472 · XC899206 · XC831497 · XC996479 · XC1075414 · XC661792 · XC832525 · XC982464 · XC803293 · XC948991 · XC285949 · XC1036835 · XC805894 · XC175812 · XC996878 · XC992957 · XC805925 · XC412802 · XC408207 · XC285694 · XC915185 · XC793926 · XC1001933 · XC992370 · XC1072048 · XC79388 · XC914505 · XC1077472 · XC285804 · XC574136 · XC874576 · XC1082804 · XC947696 · XC285710 · XC285803 · XC542133 · XC299255 · XC236705 · XC993082 · XC894734 · XC942559 · XC533173 · XC945796 · XC1107554 · XC1103936 · XC894176 · XC1070806 · XC1088124 · XC1024253 · XC1083558 · XC314889 · XC1104628 · XC655679 · XC807830 · XC1106637 · XC804525 · XC1075277 · XC738681 · XC915048 · XC1106173 · XC1088279 · XC1080027 · XC991171 · XC1079999 · XC733992 · XC1044078 · XC1046013 · XC1003433 · XC1076066 · XC1103515 · XC1136220 · XC1080501 · XC1029700