What you are about to engage with is a collection of urban sounds from various locations in Southern California, United States. These various locations are comprised of eight specific sites that include popular commercial contexts such as Target, Trader Joe’s, Seafood City stores, and the Del Amo Mall; as well as the South Central Avenue neighborhood and Tozai Plaza business district; and the seaside public monument and park hosting the Korean Friendship Bell. 

Taking inspiration from El Ayadi’s (2022) article “Linguistic Soundwalks: Setting out ways to explore the relationship between linguistic soundscapes and experiences of social diversity,” published in Rutledge Taylor & Francis Group, El Ayadi defines linguistic soundscapes as “the participant and researcher being amongst multi-sensory stimuli of the surrounding environment, in which this act may trigger multi-sensory experiences'' (Ayadi, 2022). Using Ayadi's definition as our blueprint, our methodology for this project consists of 8 grad students visiting these various sights and recording audio to capture the sounds that make up these linguistic landscapes. 

Our goal was to show others how as common visitors, sounds tend to go unnoticed or unappreciated amongst what is unraveled in these different environments. We hope that through our project our audience can gain an understanding as to how linguistic landscapes function.