sound notes

The sign of a healthy ecosystem is the sound it makes. Masha Karpoukhina’s documentary follows soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause who lost everything in a California wildfire.

Acoustic Atlas, a virtual acoustic map, for the Cultivation of the Capacity to Listen

A look at the processes and technology involved in digital sound restoration at the BFI National Archive

World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts

Crunching worms, squeaking voles, drumming ants: how scientists are learning to eavesdrop on the sounds of soil

Headphone and earplug sales are booming, but individual efforts to turn down the volume may alter our brains and surrounds in unexpected ways

Researchers successfully reconstructed a recognisable Pink Floyd song from direct neural recordings.

People upwind can hear you hollering into a breeze, but it’s hard to hear yourself

What an Oyster Hears - Listening for the sounds of coastal restoration.

Listen to the Sounds of Space - HARP Citizen Science

Data Sonification as a Tool for Climate Action

Preserving the Sunset Editorial Sound Effects Library from the USC Archive

Microphones capture ultrasonic crackles from plants that are water-deprived or injured

Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic tradition

The Sound Collector (1982)

Studies in Pessimism  (1913)  by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders "...If you cut up a large diamond into little bits, it will entirely lose the value it had as a whole; and an army divided up into small bodies of soldiers, loses all its strength. So a great intellect sinks to the level of an ordinary one, as soon as it is interrupted and disturbed, its attention distracted and drawn off from the matter in hand; for its superiority depends upon its power of concentration—of bringing all its strength to bear upon one theme, in the same way as a concave mirror collects into one point all the rays of light that strike upon it. Noisy interruption is a hindrance to this concentration. That is why distinguished minds have always shown such an extreme dislike to disturbance in any form, as something that breaks in upon and distracts their thoughts. Above all have they been averse to that violent interruption that comes from noise."