• FoundSounds, New iOS App for Sharing Field Recordings

    FoundSounds, New iOS App for Sharing Field Recordings

    Developer David Jensenius has released a new iOS app called FoundSounds, aimed to work as a network of recordings from around the world. FoundSounds is a unique new mobile app blurring the line between a social network and a collaborative art project. The premise is…

  • 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 of their emissions to avoid…

  • 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 clarke. we met martin during…

  • Montreal Subway Soundwalk

    Montreal Subway Soundwalk

    Interesting soundwalk by Dan Tapper at North American Sound Diaries Sherbrooke to Jean-Drapeau station, Montreal – Quebec My second post for North American Sound Diaries week is a soundwalk recorded in Montreal, travelling on the subway between Sherbrooke and Jean-Drapeau stations. The recording begins with my…

  • Soundscapes & Sound Identities – 7th international FKL symposium on soundscape

    Soundscapes & Sound Identities – 7th international FKL symposium on soundscape

    Soundscapes & Sound Identities, 7th international FKL symposium on soundscape. Symposium, concerts, Installations and videos at CASTELLO DI BESENO, Besenello (TN), ITALY | 22-24 May 2015 There exists doubtlessly an acoustic identity of places, even in those which, due to the increasing uniformity of the contemporary world,…

  • The Mystery of a Singing Comet

    The Mystery of a Singing Comet

    Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far…