Name: Poking your iPhone into a drain by walkingbush
Duration: 42 s
Description: water recorded on the flanks of Kardarup, flowing out of the ground, into stormwater drains and down into Mammang-Koort

water recorded on the flanks of Kardarup, flowing out of the ground, into stormwater drains and down into Mammang-Koort

Poking your iPhone into a drain

Kate Alida Mullen - The Snake Way Home floortalk at John Curtin Gallery as part of the Open Borders exhibition.

Kate Alida Mullen Floortalk at John Curtin Gallery 20-9-23

Geophones, hydrophones, contact mic and 6 omnidirectional microphones

Notes
As the light diminished, the volcanic palette undergoes a kaleidoscopic transformation, revealing an iridescence a spectral shimmering.

The sands embody the ethereal interplay of otherworldly pigments that defy earthly conventions.
Listening with multispecies ecologies: volcanic rock pools teeming with life , hermit crabs, Black Sea urchin, Goby and Shrimp, with tides crashing nearby. Human perception and language too limited to describe these multiplicitous worlds.

Using  geophones to  convert ground movement (velocity) into voltage, in attempt to pick up subterranean vibrations. The deviation of this measured voltage from the base line is called the seismic response and is analysed for structure of the earth.
In this majestic Canary Islands. We discovered alien, enigmatic volcanic landscapes, lava fields and magical caves and art by Cesar Manrique. An island carved and shaped with creativity and art.

Speculative Field Trip: Timanfaya National Park in Lanzarote

Chatting to Ravens in a Mesquite Bosque

Platforms 3 and 4 [NB this is an unedited field recording]

Written and performed in Noongar by, the lullabies are a celebration of family and community life, and a legacy for future generations.
Learn to sing in Noongar when you join the Djinda Djinda Community Choir.

CAN Lullabies program has joined forces with Awesome Festival to present this special community event celebrating International Year of Indigenous Languages.

Learn more >> http://www.canwa.com.au/project/lullabies/

Djinda Djinda Community Choir

Djinda, Djinda, Kanangoor: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

While we cannot see small nanoscopic objects like proteins or other molecules that make up virtually all living matter including our cells, tissues, as well as pathogens such as viruses, our computational algorithm allows us to make its material manifestation audible.  This piece is a musical representation of the amino acid sequence and structure of the spike protein of the pathogen of COVID-19, 2019-nCoV (protein data bank identifier 6VSB [1]). 

MUSICAL DECEIT

A virus’ genome hijacks the host cell’s protein manufacturing machinery, and forces it to replicate the viral genome and produce viral proteins to make new viruses from it.  This musical art teaches us something about the fine line between beauty of life and death as an opposite pole.  As you listen to the protein you will find that the intricate design results in incredibly interesting and actually pleasing, relaxing sounds. This doesn’t really convey the deadly impacts this particularly protein is having on the world. This aspect of the music shows the deceiving nature of the virus, how it hijacks our body to replicate, and hurt us along the way. So, the music is a metaphor for this nature of the virus to deceive the host and exploit it for its own multiplication. 

HOW IT IS DONE: 

What you hear is a multi-layered algorithmic composition featuring both the vibrational spectrum of the entire protein (expressed in sound and rhythmic elements), the sequence and folding of amino acids that compose the virus spike structure, as well as interwoven melodies - forming counterpoint music - reflecting the complex hierarchical intersecting geometry of the protein [2].

Scientific references:

[1] Wrapp et al., "Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation," Science, 2020, DOI: 10.1126/science.abb2507

[2] Buehler et al., "A Self-Consistent Sonification Method to Translate Amino Acid Sequences into Musical Compositions and Application in Protein Design Using Artificial Intelligence," ACS Nano, 2019, DOI: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b02180

Viral counterpoint of the coronavirus spike protein (2019-nCoV)

Viral Counterpoint of the Coronavirus Spike Protein (2019-nCoV)

I love anthills - as a kid I loved watching the ants work, schleping building materials and prey home to the habitat. Nowadays I love listening to them. This is my first recording using the LOM Audio Geofon in a combination with an Aquarian Audio H2a. I had my DIY "needle" (4mm threaded rod about 30 cm/12" long)attached to the Geofon so I could go under the anthill - the hydrophone was placed on top of the hill... you can see the placement of each on the photo.
The combination works great, lots of low end from the Geofon - the hydrophone picks up the highs... I'm really happy with the results.
Recorded with Sound Devices MixPre 3II 32 bit float - In post I normalized to -1dB and took out the high end on the Geofon track. 
Enjoy

Anthill LOM Geofon & Aquarian Hydrophone

In "Reading Aloud Together", Petronella Grönroos and Yvonne Billimore draw on their experience of working collaboratively and share some of the approaches they use to support and inform their practices: together and apart. Drawing on fragments from texts and using voice messages, they reflect on and respond to notions of ‘care’ and ‘hope’. The hope is that this collection of readings and responses will provide thoughtful listening experiences.    

Texts include: Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark; Lola Olufemi, Feminism Interrupted; Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life.

Reading Aloud Together, Petronella Grönroos & Yvonne Billimore

Soundtrack to accompany Australasian Bittern Installation: community sculpture installation created by Mylene van Heijster, Naomi Stanitzki, Melodie Reynolds-Diarra and Jennell Reynolds for the 2020 Esperance Wildflower Festival.

Local Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) recording kindly supplied by Birdlife Australia. BirdLife Australia are currently monitoring Bittern activity at Cape Le Grand and are providing training for the Esperance Tjaltjraak Rangers to assist with this ongoing project with support from South Coast Natural Resource Management  and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
Ambient sound recordings by participants of the Flowers & Feathers sound recording project. 
Sound development and editing by Perdita Phillips. 
Sound installation assistance by Steve West.

The original installation featured a large bittern sculpture with an internal soundtrack as well as one stereo track for the whole installation and one froggie focus stereo track in one part of the reeds. All soundtracks were different lengths and looped for continuous play.

Soundtrack to accompany Australasian Bittern Installation

This set of sounds from the surface of Mars were recorded by the microphone on the side of NASA’s Perseverance Rover on February 20, 2021. In the first set, sounds from the rover itself dominate. In the second set, the sound was filtered to make sounds from Mars more audible. You can hear a little wind in the second set. 
 
This is the first time a Mars rover has been equipped with a microphone. The images in this video were taken by Perseverance's Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, on the same day as the microphone sounds, Feb. 20, 2021.
 
For more information about Perseverance, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/perseverance
 
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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