Audio

  • ‘Save our Sounds’, by The British Library

    ‘Save our Sounds’, by The British Library

    ‘Save our sounds’ is a British Library’s project aimed to preserve its sound archive. The nation’s sound collections are under threat, both from physical degradation and as the means of playing them disappear from production. Archival consensus internationally is that we have approximately 15…

  • Free Teufelsberg NSA listening tower impulse responses

    Free Teufelsberg NSA listening tower impulse responses

    Amidst increasing concern about data privacy and how our personal data is being handled we bring you a bit of sonic surveillance history: a set of reverb impulse responses allowing you to use the acoustics of the main listening tower…

  • phantom terrains

    phantom terrains

    Streams of wireless data surge from internet exchanges and cellphone relays, flowing from routers to our devices and back again. This saturation of data has become a ubiquitous part of modern life, yet it is completely invisible to us. What…

  • Radio Aporee, Collective Sound Map

    Radio Aporee, Collective Sound Map

    The project radio aporee ::: maps has started 2006. it is a global soundmap dedicated to phonography, field recording (and related practices) and the art of listening. it connects sound recordings and places, in order to create a sonic cartography,…

  • Bats jamming bats: Food competition through sonar interference

    Bats jamming bats: Food competition through sonar interference

    Interesting article at Science Mag on a special call Bats do for interfere in their own sonars: Communication signals are susceptible to interference (“jamming”) from conspecifics and other sources. Many active sensing animals, including bats and electric fish, alter the frequency…

  • framework:ephemera – [martin clarke]

    framework:ephemera – [martin clarke]

    great new podcast by framework radio by martin clarke. this edition of framework:ephemera, our occasional series of programs featuring interviews with and selections by invited guests, was recorded in the home and studio of field-recordist, film sound guy, and regular contributor martin…