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Saturday

Team records 'music' from stars


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

Sunday

insects sounds from the forests of Northern Thailand

insects sounds from the forests of Northern Thailand
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Labels: natural sound

Saturday

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.
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Labels: acoustic ecology, natural sound, sound maps

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 50oS; 100oW. The origin of the sound is unknown.
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Labels: natural sound, odd

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.
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Labels: acoustic ecology, natural sound, odd

Thursday

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.
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Labels: acoustics, pirate radio

Monday

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.
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Labels: sound weapons

Wednesday

Steven Brown's listen hear sound projects - audio diary

Steven Brown's audio diary of field recordings
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Labels: acoustic ecology

Tuesday

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.
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Labels: natural sound

Monday

World Listening Project

Collecting field recordings from every country on Earth
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Labels: acoustic ecology, sound maps

Thursday

Open Sound New Orleans

A collaborative Soundmap of New Orleans
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Labels: acoustic ecology, natural sound, sound maps

Tuesday

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.
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Labels: radio

Thursday

Freesound Project

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

Friday

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.
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Labels: acoustics, natural sound

Sunday

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.
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Labels: acoustic ecology, history, Tony Schwartz

Friday

'cloak of silence'

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

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Labels: acoustics, odd

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.
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Labels: acoustic ecology, sound maps

Review of Terry Allen's "Pedal Steal" And "Torso Hell"

Theater-For-The-Ear, And- The-Eye-Of-The-Imagination, or plain old-fashioned radio drama musical, is how to describe Allens next disc, Pedal Steal, commissioned as a soundtrack by the Margaret Jenkins Dance Co. of San Francisco. More than a hour and a half long, it premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's " Next Wave Festival" in October of 1985.
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Labels: artists, radio art

Negativland's TheWeatherMan Cellphone-Scanning from "Sonic Outlaws" by Craig Baldwin (1995)

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Labels: artists, video

Amateur radio today (2003)

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Labels: radio, video
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Public Hearing

This started as just a set of links distributed to classes over the past several years but has now expanded somewhat to include more sound art, radio, field recordings and other links related to the creative non musical use of sound. It is in no way complete, so please forward suggestions to pvonzweck [at] yahoo [dot] com

Labels

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About Me

PvZ
Philip von Zweck is a Chicago based artist and the host/producer of the weekly radio program Something Else . although he taught in the Conservatory at Brooklyn College, he has no training in music and doesn't read sheet music. He has also taught at Northpark University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University.
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