xeno-canto

Welcome to xeno-canto America, the community database of shared bird sounds from the Americas.

Hear the Latest Sounds from Mars!

Once Mars Polar Lander touches down on Mars and starts beaming the Mars Microphone data to Earth, humankind will hear -- for the first time -- sounds from the Red Planet.

First Sounds

First Sounds is an informal collaborative of audio historians, recording engineers, sound archivists, scientists, other individuals, and organizations who aim to make mankind's earliest sound recordings available to all people for all time.

Team records 'music' from stars

Scientists have recorded the sound of three stars similar to our Sun using France's Corot space telescope.

insects sounds from the forests of Northern Thailand

insects sounds from the forests of Northern Thailand

NOAA: Monitoring the global ocean through underwater acoustics

The Acoustic Monitoring Project of the VENTS Program has performed continuous monitoring of ocean noise since August, 1991 using the U.S. Navy SOund SUrveillance System (SOSUS) network and autonomous underwater hydrophones.

Bloop

NOAA: This sound was repeatedly recorded during summer, 1997 on the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array. The sound rises rapidly in frequency over about one minute and was of sufficient amplitude to be heard on multiple sensors, at a range of over 5,000 km. It yields a general location near 50^oS; 100^oW. The origin of the sound is unknown.

Taos Hum

In 1977, a British newspaper received nearly 800 letters from people complaining of loss of sleep, dizziness, shortness of breath, headaches, anxiety, irritability, deteriorating health, inability to read or study because of the incessant hum.

Soundproofing the noisy kids upstairs

From American Public Media's Marketplace program

The loudest noises in big city apartments often come from the smallest culprits --- the kids upstairs. That's giving acoustic consultants good business. Ashley Milne-Tyte hears them out.

Activists Preparing Against Use of ‘Brown Note’ at Dem Convention

Also called “Brown Note,” it is believed to be an infrasound frequency that debilitates a person by making them defecate involuntarily.

Steven Brown's listen hear sound projects - audio diary

Steven Brown's audio diary of field recordings

Whales’ Lower-Pitch Sound Has Experts Guessing

The song of the blue whale, one of the eeriest sounds in the ocean, has mysteriously grown deeper.

World Listening Project

Collecting field recordings from every country on Earth

Open Sound New Orleans

A collaborative Soundmap of New Orleans

Radio Locator

Welcome to Radio-Locator, the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.

Freesound Project

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs.

Stone Age Art Caves May Have Been Concert Halls

Prehistoric peoples chose places of natural resonant sound to draw their famed cave sketches, according to new analyses of paleolithic caves in France.

Tony Schwartz

from NPR's On the Media
In his 84 years Tony Schwartz produced over 30,000 recordings, thousands of groundbreaking political ads, media theory books and Broadway sound design, invented the portable recorder, delivered hundreds of lectures and had full careers as an ad executive and a pioneering folklorist. And he did it all without leaving his zip code. Schwartz died in June and we offer a piece from the Kitchen Sisters, looking back at his life spent listening.

'cloak of silence'

Scientists have shown off the blueprint for an "acoustic cloak", which could make objects impervious to sound waves.

radio aporee ::: maps

radio aporee ::: maps is a project about the exploration and reoccupation of our living spaces. it collects audible material (recordings, sounds, spoken words) and connects them via a telephone network to the surface of google maps. thus, navigating through landscapes and cities by means of (hi)stories, thoughts, inventions, it may change the way we experience our daily surroundings.