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VIA A POST on the naturerecordists email group comes news of a new acoustic ecology research program at Purdue University in the US.
According to the article:
This is consistent with the established practice of acoustic ecology rather than being a new scientific field in its own right, as claimed elsewhere in the article. Perhaps the university’s press office decided to sprinkle a little stardust on the story. The scale of the study is nonetheless impressive:
You can hear a few recordings related to the project on this page. My favourite has to be the gray wolves howling in Ontario.
And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and the dark. – Jack London, Call of the Wild
The balloonist in the desert is dreaming
The Binaural Diaries of Ollie Hall
The Ragged Society of Antiquarian Ramblers
Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology