Sirens of a not so quiet sea
Jan 10, 2023, 08:55 PM
"When I first listened to this recording, my first thought was what a dull place to live. Upon further investigation a whole "mini" world opened to my ears.
The first manipulation of the sound was to speed it up 8x the original recording, this in turn reduced the recording from 60 sec. to about 6 sec. but exposed a whales phrase (I think) and some chatter (I think) like sounds.
"I extracted a set of sounds (4), all the sounds you hear are from the original source material with the exception of "Brownian Noise" added by me. Many years ago I developed an idea of isolating nature or natural sounds in recordings and devising ways of "re assembly" into a generative "nature" environment. I call this idea "AmbiGen" for Ambience Generation. It was to this idea that I applied the sounds extracted from Sound #003.
"I used six asynchronous clocks to trigger the sounds with random changes in pitch/time. This led me to investigate "ocean noise" which in this case I read of human caused sounds such as ships, submarines, explosions, subsonic communications. These sounds among others can misdirect migrations and interfere with the habits of all kinds of species (antarctia.gov.au). I did not use any of these sounds."
Blue whale reimagined by Joel Graham.
Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.
The first manipulation of the sound was to speed it up 8x the original recording, this in turn reduced the recording from 60 sec. to about 6 sec. but exposed a whales phrase (I think) and some chatter (I think) like sounds.
"I extracted a set of sounds (4), all the sounds you hear are from the original source material with the exception of "Brownian Noise" added by me. Many years ago I developed an idea of isolating nature or natural sounds in recordings and devising ways of "re assembly" into a generative "nature" environment. I call this idea "AmbiGen" for Ambience Generation. It was to this idea that I applied the sounds extracted from Sound #003.
"I used six asynchronous clocks to trigger the sounds with random changes in pitch/time. This led me to investigate "ocean noise" which in this case I read of human caused sounds such as ships, submarines, explosions, subsonic communications. These sounds among others can misdirect migrations and interfere with the habits of all kinds of species (antarctia.gov.au). I did not use any of these sounds."
Blue whale reimagined by Joel Graham.
Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.