Use geolocated sound, voice, text, and images to craft engaging experiences for your audience. Outdoors, SonicMaps uses location services (e.g. GPS) to automatically deliver audio-visual content in response to user movement, much like a personal tour guide. At home, visitors can still explore your project through our virtual listener mode, available on the SonicMaps Player app or embedded directly on your site.
At the heart of the SonicMaps platform is our easy-to-use online Editor, offering a multi-layer approach to storytelling and audio tour creation. By overlapping multiple layers of content—such as voiceover, ambient sounds, and music—visitors can seamlessly transition between sound materials, creating their own unique mixes as they move through your map. This approach enables memorable, hands-free experiences delivered simply through a smartphone and headphones, with no need for QR codes or manual intervention. (less) Murder in Big Horn
: The advocacy of families in Big Horn County helped ignite the national MMIW movement , drawing attention to the systemic negligence faced by Indigenous communities.
The reporter, a woman named Luella who had been chasing these ghosts for years, nodded solemnly. "In Big Horn, they call it the 'invisible epidemic.' But they can't ignore us if we keep speaking their names."
: The 2023 Showtime miniseries Murder in Big Horn examines the real-life disappearances of young women like Henny Scott , Kaysera Stops Pretty Places, and Selena Not Afraid .
"They aren't looking, Elara," her mother said from the doorway. Her voice was thin, aged by a decade in two weeks. "The report just sat on a desk. They said she probably just 'went off' for a while."
"She had bruises," Elara told the local reporter, her voice finally finding its fire. "She was wearing clothes that weren't hers. How is that an accident?"
It was Elara who saw the flash of red near the creek bed—the hem of Maya’s favorite ribbon skirt. She didn't scream; the air was too cold for sound. Maya was there, just two hundred yards from the last place she’d been seen, hidden in plain sight while the world looked away.
Elara looked out at the vast, beautiful, and scarred landscape. The search for Maya was over, but the fight for the others—the Henny Scotts, the Kayseras, the Selenas—was just beginning. They would not be the "silent population" anymore. They would be the forest fire. Key Context from Real Events
They walked in a line, shoulder to shoulder, through the knee-deep drifts. They weren't looking for a "runaway." They were looking for a daughter.
: The advocacy of families in Big Horn County helped ignite the national MMIW movement , drawing attention to the systemic negligence faced by Indigenous communities.
The reporter, a woman named Luella who had been chasing these ghosts for years, nodded solemnly. "In Big Horn, they call it the 'invisible epidemic.' But they can't ignore us if we keep speaking their names."
: The 2023 Showtime miniseries Murder in Big Horn examines the real-life disappearances of young women like Henny Scott , Kaysera Stops Pretty Places, and Selena Not Afraid .
"They aren't looking, Elara," her mother said from the doorway. Her voice was thin, aged by a decade in two weeks. "The report just sat on a desk. They said she probably just 'went off' for a while."
"She had bruises," Elara told the local reporter, her voice finally finding its fire. "She was wearing clothes that weren't hers. How is that an accident?"
It was Elara who saw the flash of red near the creek bed—the hem of Maya’s favorite ribbon skirt. She didn't scream; the air was too cold for sound. Maya was there, just two hundred yards from the last place she’d been seen, hidden in plain sight while the world looked away.
Elara looked out at the vast, beautiful, and scarred landscape. The search for Maya was over, but the fight for the others—the Henny Scotts, the Kayseras, the Selenas—was just beginning. They would not be the "silent population" anymore. They would be the forest fire. Key Context from Real Events
They walked in a line, shoulder to shoulder, through the knee-deep drifts. They weren't looking for a "runaway." They were looking for a daughter.