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Each point on this map is placed by the recording's location — derived from the place-name attached to that specimen and treated as approximate. The map shows roughly where a sound was captured, not a surveyed coordinate; a dot marked Ottawa and one marked Petrie Island are both honest placements, but neither should be read as precise. The projection is a simple equirectangular plot of those coordinates onto an abstract field, scaled to the bounding box of the collection. There is no basemap or street geography here: the space belongs to the archive, not to the world. What moves with proximity is volume only — nearness brings a recording up in the mix, distance returns it to silence. The recordings themselves are unaltered field captures; nothing about their internal character is simulated or invented. The spatial dimension is the collection's own, assembled from where and when these sounds were heard.