Research: Soundscape change at Samford

Listening to the Soundscape (6:04) Automated recordings of soundscape changes during a day at the Samford Queensland Ecological Research Facility, Site SA01, 18 November 2010. See also the Real Lab website at: http://real.msu.edu.

Soundscape Installation: Marc Behrens

Sound Embracing Context (3:40) Artist Marc Behrens speaks about his work at Futureplaces 2012. Behrens works on several cerebral and physical levels. His works mainly consist of concrete electronic music, installations, the occasional photograph or video. Recent activities include field recording trips to remote western China and the Amazon rainforest.

Behrens has performed and exhibited extensively across Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, North America, and East Asia, and developed collaborations with Achim Wollscheid, Bernhard Günter, Francisco López, Jeremy Bernstein, Nikolaus Heyduck and Paulo Raposo, among others.

Soundscape: Final Arrival - The Princess Marguerite II

Final Arrival (19:35) The Princess Marguerite II was a 373 foot long steamship that provided daily service between Seattle, Washington and Victoria, British Columbia. This sound-image production captures the soundscape of the steamship's final arrival in Seattle and the waterfront salute it received on the evening of September 17, 1989.

Soundscape: An Amazon Night

Amazon Night Scene (:37) This short video by Ian Reilly doesn't show much visually. It was recorded to illustrate the night soundscape of the Amazon rainforest at a jungle lodge near Puerto Maldonado. The videographer notes, "I'm a very visual person, but I found the sounds of the Amazon were almost as overwhelming as the sights...at times, the jungle was so loud as to be almost unbearable. Falling asleep to thousands of noisy insects is about as good as it gets for me."

Lecture: Susan Parks and Right Whale Acoustics

Right Whale Acoustics (5:52) Bioacoustics researcher Susan Parks discusses the challenges that right whales face in trying to communicate with each other in an increasingly noisy ocean, at the November 17, 2012 at Penn State's Research Unplugged. Click2Read additional information. Source YouTube

Phonography: First Recorded Sound

First Recorded Sound (:10) The 10-second recording by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, is   of a singer crooning the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune”. It was discovered  in a Paris archive by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds visually, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable — converted from squiggles on paper to sound — by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. Source: NY Times and YouTube

Soundscape Composition: Urban London

Recording the Urban Soundscape (2:33) In this short documentary a City Music student explains her love of cycling around London and recording the rich urban soundscape, including the sounds of the River Thames. Her objective is to use the recordings in a composition on which she is working.

Soundscapes: Austin, Texas

Soundscapes (1:39:02) This YouTub page organized by Alive Arkhive contains 21 soundscapes averaging a little over a minute each apparently filmed in the Austin, Texas area. Most of the videos focus on natural acoustic events such as bird song, thunderstorms and rain fall. Source: YouTube.