Ecology

  • New Book: ‘Animal Music – Sound and Song in the Natural World’

    New Book: ‘Animal Music – Sound and Song in the Natural World’

    ‘Animal Music: Sound and Song in the Natural World‘ is a wonderful book I recently got. It’s edited by Tobias Fisher and Lara C Cory and features interviews with truly expert and passionate people on this field. Can animals talk?…

  • A Picture of a Thunder

    When it comes to thunderstorms, lightning tends to steal the show, dazzling everyone with its spectacular displays, and overshadowing the powerful long-distance rumbles that accompany the atmospheric energy release. But now a team of scientists working at the Southwest Research…

  • A m f i b i o n

    A m f i b i o n by Artificial Memory Trace Amfibion takes the listener into a rich, bizarre and disorienting world, a biological melting pot of the uncanny, the bewildering and the awe inspiring. Comprised of treated field…

  • infinite grain 09: sinan bökesoy

    infinite grain 09: sinan bökesoy

    [infinite grain is a series of interviews inspired on microsound procedures, exploring a wide variety of topics in dialogue with artists who work with sound on installation, composition and improvisation] Algorithms have a special magic, a mystery that lies in life itself, from…

  • Field Recording: Okarito kiwi

    Field Recording: Okarito kiwi

    Great field report from Tim Prebble about his journey to Okarito, New Zealand to record kiwi sounds. If you know anyone from New Zealand you will have likely heard the colloquial use of the word ‘kiwi’ – the kiwi is our…

  • ‘Here’, A Wireless System That Lets You “Control” What You Hear

    Here – Active Listening, project at Kickstarter: HERE IS A WIRELESS INTERACTIVE LISTENING SYSTEM Through two truly wireless, in-ear buds and a smartphone app, Here allows you to instantly control real world audio so you can hear what you want to…