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Weddell seal vocalizations are cooler than your synthesizer, and we’re still learning more
When it comes to chilly polar sounds, it’s tough to top the incredible Antarctic Weddell seal. These creatures live in some of the most extreme conditions on Earth, above and below sea ice – and scientists are discovering more and more about their audible and inaudible vocalizations.
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Terje Isungset makes musical instruments out of carved Arctic ice
Acoustic instruments we think of largely in wood, string, gut, metal. Terje Isungset has spent decades making music out of ice.
Peter Kirn - June 27, 2022
DIY + Unusual Music Tech
In Glacier Music, sounds and songs capture urgency, deeply-felt and real
It’s heard in drips, in flows of water. It’s counted in numbers, echoes in poetry, called into the air in plaintive cries, sighing instruments, and the decay of piano notes. When a crisis reaches us somewhere that even words fail, maybe we need sounds and music to tell the story alongside science.
Peter Kirn - November 5, 2021
Establishment Music Stories Tech
Australia is using sound to monitor its wildlife and ecosystem
Peter Kirn - November 26, 2019
DIY + Unusual Music Stories Tech
Micro-ritmos turns bacteria and machine learning into spatialized sound
Peter Kirn - November 11, 2016
Motion Music tech
Watch crazy sounds meet remote Finnish countryside
Peter Kirn - August 25, 2016
Music Music tech
Bugs Make Music, Lured by Light, in Music and Art Project
- September 18, 2014
Music Music tech
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