[HN Gopher] Map of forest sounds from around the world
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Map of forest sounds from around the world
Author : henry_pulver
Score : 151 points
Date : 2024-06-14 12:11 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (timberfestival.org.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (timberfestival.org.uk)
| marttt wrote:
| A similar project is radio aporee, a huge corpus of field
| recordings from all over the world (see the "maps" section for
| searching etc): https://aporee.org/
| henry_pulver wrote:
| Wow, this has many more recordings & a larger variety! Thanks
| for sharing
| Amorymeltzer wrote:
| Something I've thought about recently is how _loud_ forests
| should be. Daniel Mason names this loss explicitly in the
| wonderful _North Woods_ , namely that "[b]etween 1970 and 2019
| alone, nearly a third of all birds had disappeared from North
| America. Once, the forest would have been deafening." Likewise,
| Cat Bohannon's stellar _Eve_ notes that "[w]hen you first visit
| a tropical rain forest, the dominant emotion is usually surprise
| --not over the beauty of the place, nor over how hot it is. The
| biggest shock is that it's bloody _loud_. "
| imhoguy wrote:
| Reminds me midsummer pine forests in south Italy. Swarms of
| cicadas are damn loud.
| dmbche wrote:
| Have a look at "Burden of dreams", a doc about Werner Herzog
| moving a boat over a mountain (with a team, to film
| "Fitzcaraldo") in the amazon. "The birds don't sing, they
| screech in pain"
|
| Good movie!
| antwerp1 wrote:
| I spent one evening laying on the Yosemite valley floor, from
| dusk until well past the moon and stars had made their
| appearances. The entire time I was there, frogs were holding a
| concert. And sound echoes between the rocks.
|
| I think timing might be an interesting factor to introduce, e.g.
| all forests at sunset.
| magneticnorth wrote:
| I clicked around in the southern appalachians on this map, and
| there are a few nighttime recordings from there. The night ones
| are very loud with frogs and insects, in contrast with the
| daytime ones that are mostly birds.
|
| Maybe as they get more data that'll be something you can filter
| on.
| throwup238 wrote:
| There's also a radio interface that uses this data:
| https://www.tree.fm/
| easyKL wrote:
| There are also the field recordings (mostly urban) from Tsonami
| https://www.audiomapa.org/
|
| Worth mentioning the huge database of Freesound
| https://freesound.org/browse/geotags/
| dukeofdoom wrote:
| Something I realized hiking the stairway to heaven is how much
| road traffic in a valley can be amplified by surrounding
| mountains. Can't be good for nature.
| leidenfrost wrote:
| Fun fact, when I went to a trip through Europe (I'm from Buenos
| Aires) I arrived at 6AM on a sunday. And the first thing I
| noticed is how different the bird sounds are.
| lucb1e wrote:
| No recordings yet in my area, was looking how to contribute:
| audio seems licensed under creative commons so it's not locked in
| (nice), submission process sounds straightforward (nice),
| checking out the submission flow: that requires signing in with a
| google account... but there is also an email address mentioned,
| perhaps that's an alternative path. Bit sad that the default flow
| just assumes you're happy with one of the biggest ad tech
| companies' privacy policy, especially when this project seems to
| have taken the effort to make a clear and succinct privacy policy
| of their own.
| vinc wrote:
| I'm from Western Europe but I lived a year and a half in New
| Zealand almost a decade ago, I miss the wilderness and the sound
| of the birds from this area of the world. This project is neat!
| sivers wrote:
| (hi Vincent.) I've lived in New Zealand for the last 12 years,
| and still also appreciate the the sounds of the birds every
| day. It never gets old, for me. The tui birds, bellbirds,
| saddlebacks, and grey warblers in particular.
|
| When I lived in England for a year, I'd play recordings of New
| Zealand forests in the background because I was so homesick for
| these bird sounds.
| vinc wrote:
| The blackbirds and the tawny owls that live around my house
| remind me bit of the tui and the ruru sometime. But the tui
| birds are really unique and amazing! It's almost magical :) I
| remember listening to them one last time before hoping into
| the bus to the airport because I knew I would miss them a
| lot.
|
| I also spent half a year on Steward Island during my first
| winter where there's a lot of kiwi birds and I still catch
| myself waiting for their calls in the forest next to my home
| in Europe at night haha!
| wingworks wrote:
| It's a shame most (all?) the sound recordings are so short. ~1min
| I would love to have like 30m or longer ones.
| perdomon wrote:
| I make ambient music, and stuff like this is so nice to put in
| the background. Love that someone decided to collect and organize
| these.
| aplkorex wrote:
| I love this. Sometimes we humans are so batshit crazy trying to
| build that next-big-mega-thing... and here we have an easy-to-use
| map of forest sounds, and it just works. Kudos!
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