Archive for the 'audio' Category

"The high frequencies of the popping and cracking noises are transmitted faster by the ice than the deeper frequencies, which reach the listener with a time lag as glissandi sinking to almost bottomless depths."

A sample set of deep sea audio.

Icelandic segment of Forvo, tagline: All the words in the world. Pronounced.

"The sound is something like laser beams from a 1980s video game, but the voices are baby Nile crocodiles calling out from inside their eggs."

Two directories with some space-related audio clips, the first from NASA's INSPIRE project (very low frequency radio waves) and the second a recording of a radio burst caused by a solar flare on 4/9/2001.

Kio and I share an interest in field recordings, it seems. Very cool (pun!), very rhythmic recording of a glacier melting. via wfmu.

"He knew that he heard it, / A bird's cry, at daylight or before, / In the early March wind."

"For she was the maker of the song she sang. / The ever-hooded, tragic-gestured sea / Was merely a place by which she walked to sing."