Map of forest sounds from around the world
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Map of forest sounds from around the world
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#2A similar project is radio aporee, a huge corpus of field recordings from all over the world (see the "maps" section for searching etc): https://aporee.org/
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#3Something I've thought about recently is how loud forests should be. Daniel Mason names this loss explicitly in the wonderful North Woods, namely that "[b]etween 1970 and 2019 alone, nearly a third of all birds had disappeared from North America. Once, the forest would have been deafening." Likewise, Cat Bohannon's stellar Eve notes that "[w]hen you first visit a tropical rain forest, the dominant emotion is usually surprise—not over the beauty of the place, nor over how hot it is. The biggest shock is that it's bloody loud."
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#4A similar project is radio aporee, a huge corpus of field recordings from all over the world (see the "maps" section for searching etc): https://aporee.org/
Wow, this has many more recordings & a larger variety! Thanks for sharing
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#5Something I've thought about recently is how loud forests should be. Daniel Mason names this loss explicitly in the wonderful North Woods , namely that "[b]etween 1970 and 2019 alone, nearly a third of all birds had disappeared from North America. Once, the forest would have been deafening." Likewise, Cat Bohannon's stellar Eve notes that "[w]hen you first visit a tropical rain forest, the dominant emotion is usually…
Reminds me midsummer pine forests in south Italy. Swarms of cicadas are damn loud.
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#6Something I've thought about recently is how loud forests should be. Daniel Mason names this loss explicitly in the wonderful North Woods , namely that "[b]etween 1970 and 2019 alone, nearly a third of all birds had disappeared from North America. Once, the forest would have been deafening." Likewise, Cat Bohannon's stellar Eve notes that "[w]hen you first visit a tropical rain forest, the dominant emotion is usually…
Have a look at "Burden of dreams", a doc about Werner Herzog moving a boat over a mountain (with a team, to film "Fitzcaraldo") in the amazon. "The birds don't sing, they screech in pain"
Good movie!
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#7I spent one evening laying on the Yosemite valley floor, from dusk until well past the moon and stars had made their appearances. The entire time I was there, frogs were holding a concert. And sound echoes between the rocks.
I think timing might be an interesting factor to introduce, e.g. all forests at sunset.
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#8There's also a radio interface that uses this data: https://www.tree.fm/
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#9There are also the field recordings (mostly urban) from Tsonami
https://www.audiomapa.org/
Worth mentioning the huge database of Freesound https://freesound.org/browse/geotags/
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#10Something I realized hiking the stairway to heaven is how much road traffic in a valley can be amplified by surrounding mountains.
Can't be good for nature.