Category: Ideas
Acoustic Ecology Lab on PBS Catalyst
In February the Catalyst program featured the work of the Acoustic Ecology Lab PBS Catalyst TV program
You can find some more information here on Sustainability News
B&K develop personal engine sounds with Hyundai
Psychoacoustics has played an important role in automobile design for at least a decade now and this work takes it to another level – just think about those 16+ loudspeakers in your car, they are doing noise cancelling and sound sculpting to present you with an automobile sound that is largely artificial – so now you could dial in your own —
more information here in the B&K Waves Journal The Recorder
In response to a recent article I published in The Conversation, I got a wonderful email from an author, Herselman Hattingh, who wrote a short story for the Boston review about a sound recorder’s who sits out in the desert recording the sounds and tracking, through these recordings, the demise of the ecosystem around him. The story was awarded first prize in the 2018 Aura Estrada Short Story competition. The author was so struck that I am sitting out there recording and doing time series analysis to examine climate impact based on my own sound recordings that they sent me the link to the story they wrote, saying
In September 2017 I wrote a short story. I just had this idea of a guy with an old-fashioned tape recorder out in the desert. I did not know what he was doing there, but it turns out he was recording the end-times and that he is not alone.
I read your story yesterday and was really surprised to find that a fictional character with a fictional job turned out to be based on something very real and very interesting.
I too was surprised and so here I share a link to the wonderful story by Herselman Hattingh Listening to nature: How sound can help us understand environmental change
Co-Director of the Acoustic Ecology Lab, Dr. Garth Paine wrote an article for the Conversation titled, Listening to nature: How sound can help us understand environmental change – it discusses environmental sound and how in collaboration with citizen scientists, some of our research explores how sound can be used to predict climate impact – happy readings and listening. Want more good news, sign up to The Conversation’s newsletter https://theconversation.com/us/newsletters.
EcoSonic – Sound Quality Presentation
Presenting a poster on our EcoSonic work on modeling changes in Acoustic Ecology and weather patterns tomorrow at the CAP LTR conference on long term monitoring https://sustainability.asu.edu/events/rsvp/cap-lter-all-scientists-meeting-and-poster-symposium/
The power of Listening
Thanks to ASU Now for the opportunity to share my passion for how listening can make your life much richer
Garth Paine on Listening from ASU Now on Vimeo. Listen to the sounds of the SW USA on our Listen database http://www.ecolisten.org/sonic_events.php – gathered by ASU faculty and citizen scientists in National Parks across the SW USA, the recordings help document the transformation of the environment over time due to climate change and other environmental impacts.
Listening to Plants
Sound is everywhere – it signifies life… plants and trees talk with sound. Fascinating and growing body of research indicates that sound is a crucial part of communication between plants and ecosystems as a whole.
14 Thousand Bird Calls
An interesting project that has visualized 14 thousand bird calls using machine learning – it is interesting to see these graded visually – would be interesting to have access to the sample library and run these through psychoacoustic analysis using IRCAM’s CataRT tools.
Green is good for you
Interesting article in the American Psychological Associations publication about how regular exposure to the natural world can help restoring mental clarity and heal the body.
We are planning to look at the benefits of taking hospitalized and elderly people into national parks virtual using EcoRift. We hypothesis that this could be a valuable aid to healing and wellbeing.
Psychologists’ research explains the mental and physical restoration we get from nature–and has important implications for how we build our homes, work environments and cities.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/greengood.aspx
