Singing Bilbao

San Sebastian Square Noise

Monfaucon Morning Birds

Basilika Santa Maria Ambient

Weather Report

A field recording of Sperm Whales, echolocating,  in Southern Bay, north of Princeton, Newfoundland. The clicks' frequency can suggest a whale's size and the rate, the distance between the whale and an object (e.g., prey). 

A Sperm whale head contains the spermaceti organ, a cavity filled with almost 2,000 L of wax-like liquid, and the junk compartment, comprising a series of wafer-like bodies believed to act as acoustic lenses. 

Echolocation signals are produced with consistent inter-click intervals (of approximately 0.4 s) while coda clicks are arranged in stereotypical sequences called “codas” lasting less than 2 s. Codas are characterized by the different number of constituent clicks and the intervals between them (called inter-click intervals or ICIs). Codas are typically produced in multi-party exchanges that can last from about 10 s to over half an hour. Each click, in turn, presents itself as a sequence of equally spaced pulses, with inter-pulse interval (IPI) of an order of 3–4 ms in an adult female, which is the result of the sound reflecting within the spermaceti organ. 

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9160774/figure/fig2/

Equipment: Sound Devices mixpre 6II and a borrowed Aquarian Audio hydrophone.

Sperm Whale Echolocations

Thunderstorms move through Rappahannock County, VA.

ThunderRapp

Hong Kong Protest, Reimagined for Cities and Memory

A "reimagined" sound for Cities and Memory, a global, collaborative sound art and mapping project.  CitiesAndMemory.com

I selected a field recording of a Hong Kong protest and dissected the original.  Some of the eight tracks use granular pieces at audio rate to create new instruments.

Hong Kong Protest

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