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Where You Focus · An Audubon Center Exhibit

Where you
like to focus.

Build a soundscape that helps you focus. Step into someone else's world. See what sound reveals about attention — yours, and a bird's.

🐦 Audubon Center · World Migratory Bird Day: Your choices help researchers understand how sound shapes focus — for people and for the wild neighbors sharing our acoustic world. No personal information is stored.
Your path — five stages, start to finish
Build
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Feel
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Refine
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Bunting's World
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Bird Challenge
🎧 Wear headphones — the sound moves around you in space
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Build a place you could settle into and focus.
Choose a space · Tap sounds to add · Drag to position
tap to activate
Choose a space, then tap sounds to add them — drag each one to place it around you in the room.
Environments
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café
Your sounds will appear here
Sounds
Step into a preset
Step Into a Preset
Choose an environment to listen to. You'll hear all its sounds playing — then you'll get to shape it to your ideal.
Tip: try stepping into a space you didn't build.
🎧 Keep headphones on
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Step Into a Preset
A full environment is playing — just listen
Listen to this café — all its sounds are playing. How does this space make you feel?
Presets
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café
The environment's sounds will appear here
Listening to full environment...
🎭 Each sound you removed is playing — tell us how it made you feel
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The Sounds You Removed
Listen to each removed sound · Pick the emotion it evokes
You removed this sound. How did it make you feel?
↑ high energy unpleasant pleasant low energy ↓
🎧 Keep headphones on
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Your Ideal Nature Soundscape
Blank canvas — tap any nature sound to add it, then drag to position. Build the natural soundscape you'd most love to focus in.
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your nature space
Your sounds will appear here
🎭 Your environment is playing
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Label Sounds with Emotions
Label sounds with emotions. Tap a sound, then tap the emotion that fits. Labels don't change the sound — they tell researchers how each sound feels to you.
Now Playing
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your environment
Your sounds will appear here
Emotions
A shift in perspective
Now, step out of your own ears.
You just built a space for you. But you're not the only listener in the world. A painted bunting lives here too — and he's trying to be heard.

Focus isn't only a human thing. For a songbird, being heard is focus. It's mating, territory, survival. Let's listen from his world for a minute.
🎧 Keep headphones on — listen for the bunting's call
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Make a world where the bunting can be heard.
Natural sounds only · Drag to position · Help his call come through
A male painted bunting is calling softly from the brush, trying to reach a female nearby. Add natural sounds to shape the acoustic world around them.
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the bunting's world
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Your sounds will appear here
The Bird Challenge
Pick a place to listen from
Three places where a painted bunting might try to be heard. Each one has its own challenges.
🎧 Keep headphones on — listen for the bunting's call
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The Bird Challenge
Turn down what you'd turn down, if you were him
Call audibility
If you were the bird, which sounds would you want turned down so you can hear the mating call?
You can only turn sound levels down. You can't delete, move the bird, or add plants. Work with what's here.
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the challenge
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The Bird Challenge
You did it! 🎶
You just spent time listening to the world the way a bunting does — noticing everything his song has to carry over. That's the whole challenge, and you finished it.
The Bird Challenge · How it went
How it went 🐦
Where You Focus · Session Complete
What you just did 🎧
The story of how you focus — built from everything you just did, in your world and the bunting's.
Research Data (JSON) ▾
For researchers: The JSON below captures precise session parameters — environment type, sound source positions as normalized X/Y coordinates, azimuth angle, distance from listener, volume levels, removal sequence, and final soundscape state.
How does this make you feel?
Tap the emotion that best matches your feeling
↑ high energy unpleasant pleasant low energy ↓