BIOM is a diverse open microphone network, a public resource, and a creative response to the variety of planetary soundscapes and ways of encountering them.

Aims

○●   Set up a network of live streams from UNESCO Biosphere reserves (BRs)    
○●   A resource for artists, researchers, activists    
○●   Link to the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere programme    
○●   Build on the existing pool of live streams: varied, across disciplines, large and small    
○●   Locally led    
○●   Record some of the streams.    

Working Group

○●  Biosphere Soundscapes (Brisbane)    
○●   Locus Sonus (Aix-Marseille)    
○●  Cyberforest (University of Tokyo)    
○●  Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve (Stanford University, Santa Cruz, CA)    
○●   SoundCamp (London)    

With the support of

○●  World Network of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves    
○●   UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB)    
○●   Sound + Environment Research Group (Hull Univ)    
○●   Ecoacoustics 2018 Congress & WFAE 2018 Conference (Brisbane)    
○●   Griffith University (Sonic Environments Lab)    
○●   QUT - Ecosounds Lab (Support for Australian microphone network)    
○●   Streaming Museum (NY)