#Biophony

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2026-01-03

pablo diserens & ludwig berger – tracing basalt in the onsernone valley

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f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/traci

BC BY-NC-SABCBYNCSA
2025-09-30
NATUROnaturo
2025-03-01

Voyages en son nature cette semaine au bord du lac de Myvatn en Islande. La semaine prochaine Volcan la pété sur l'île de la réunion. pdca.st/cV2l

Saamlengsaamleng
2025-02-23

I'm trying to collect last sounds of Asian Koel shouting over the Bangkok traffic before leaving the city. I still have the New Yorker documentary about Bernie Krause and his recordings of dissapearing biophony in my head. I think about all these urban birds who may be nature's last voice.

Microphone and old houses near canal in Bangkok
Lionel Feugèreliofeu@sciences.re
2023-12-22

The #sound of a #mosquito #swarm in the field with its #biophony sonotheque.mnhn.fr/sounds/mnhn and of the entire swarm formation/decline in the lab sonotheque.mnhn.fr/sounds/mnhn.

A mosquito swarm is composed of 1 to thousands of males #flying in loops next to a visual marker, waiting for the #flighttone of an incoming female. The recorded species swarms at dusk till they can't see the marker anymore (field) or till they get tired (lab).

#Anopheles #NRI #UoG #IRD #insects #bioacoustics #MNHN #BurkinaFaso

2023-11-04

Silencing biodiversity
Biophony is the collective sound produced by all living organisms that reside in a particular biome. It is not about a 'decontextualized single-species recording model'. Bernie Krause is recording "the “Great Animal Orchestra,” a constantly shapeshifting constellation of individual voices in motion, and he termed their symphonic soundscape a ‘biophony’ — all of the “sounds originating from nonhuman, nondomestic biological sources.”

In 1988 he recorded the so-called selective logging of a timber company:
"The outcome was a spectrogram with a remarkable density throughout all frequency bands, as could be expected for a habitat replete with the most diverse animal life. In 1989, he returned to the meadow after the operation had been completed for a second session under the exact same conditions and at the exact same time. In keeping with what had been promised by the logging company, the place still looked as though it was teeming with life — “I was delighted to see that little seemed to have changed,” as Krause remarked. Back in the studio and after a look at his spectrogram, he had to revise that impression: “Gone was the thriving density and diversity of birds. Gone, too, was the overall richness that had been present the year before. The only prominent sounds were the stream and hammering of a Williamson’s sapsucker.” The ear, then, turned out to be capable of detecting the true state of the habitat much more precisely and truthfully than the eye ever could."

"The recurring pattern seemed to be that the ‘evil sounding’ spaces were those devoid of animal noises, while those full of life and sound tended to come across as far more agreeable"
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/eve

Biophony, Bernie Krause
anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/
#BiodiversityCrisis #SoundEcology #biophony ##sound #NatureSounds #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #degradation #koalas #wildlife #habitat #ecology #biodiversity #extinction #NSWLogging #SaveTuckersNob

2023-09-18

@audiocrackle strongly recomend you send some links and recordings. Whatabout #biophony ?

2023-06-15

Soundscape ecology and the rapidly deteriorating world.
"The sound ecologist capturing a disappearing world:
‘70% of habitats I recorded are gone’."

The bush cacophony out here in the country side is dominated by combustion machines, motorised 'gardening' and barking dogs.

theguardian.com/artanddesign/2
#ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity #wildlife #sounds #biophony #Soundscape #ecology #Wildlife #Voice #Noise #Pollution #Biodiversity

Bellinger River, mosaic, Australian wood duck?
2023-05-04

"We conclude that the seven sympatric cuckoo species were strongly partitioned in acoustic signal space and minimally masked each other's signals."


onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ab

Graphic of two birds

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