Echolocation

Echolocation Echolocation is a radio program that brings sound to light. Broadcast on WGXC 90.7 FM and wavefarm.org. Featured composers include R.

Broadcast on WGXC 90.7 FM and wavefarm.org, Echolocation invites listeners to take an aural journey which plumbs the depths of natural sound - from the cacophonous sea floor to the sub-sonic, ultra-bass of elephant songs. Each season, Echolocation features exploration of environmental art, especially the interpretation and use of natural acoustics in sound art and musical composition. Each show s

hares works by artists working in the fields of bioacoustics, soundscape studies, deep listening and acoustic ecology. Murray Schaffer, Doug Quin, Lisa Walker, Hildegard Westerkamp, Pauline Oliveros and others. Each quarterly program includes news and updates from fields related to both the scientific and artistic studies of environmental sound, as well as local sounds of the season. Submissions of locally recorded and produced pieces are encouraged.

https://u.osu.edu/biomuseum/2017/08/09/bat-sounds/
03/09/2024

https://u.osu.edu/biomuseum/2017/08/09/bat-sounds/

Bats are social mammals that use a repertoire of vocalizations to communicate with each other and to move around in the environment. To detect obstacles and prey in their environment, bats emit a s…

https://biodiversity.research.ufl.edu/bat-sounds-bat-songs/
03/09/2024

https://biodiversity.research.ufl.edu/bat-sounds-bat-songs/

Bat Sounds, Bat Songs Bat Sounds, Bat Songs By Farah Carrasco-Rueda There are around 1300 species of bats in the world. In the Neotropics, approximately half of the bat species cannot be captured using mist-nets because the bats can detect and avoid them easily (Kalko et al. 2008). Most of these spe...

Bat SignalsOn this Summer 2024 broadcast, we’re getting back to basics and honoring one of the essential echolocators in...
02/09/2024

Bat Signals
On this Summer 2024 broadcast, we’re getting back to basics and honoring one of the essential echolocators in our world – the bat. We’ll share some of the newest information that researchers are finding about bats, and listen to music that incorporates sounds of bats, or is inspired by the world’s only flying mammal. Music by Stuart Hyatt, Christina Vantzou, Felicia Atkinson, Mary Lattimore, Mariolina Zitta, Harald Lie, ACTORS, Tenderlash and The Joy Formidible.
https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/8qm4xs

LightSound Eclipse Sonification Tool
12/06/2024

LightSound Eclipse Sonification Tool

The LightSound prototype was developed for the 2017 Solar Eclipse. We had 1 device in Jackson Hole, WY and 2 devices in Kentucky at Morehead State University and at the Kentucky School for the Blind.

Wayne Grim total solar eclipse sonification with the Kronos Quartet
10/06/2024

Wayne Grim total solar eclipse sonification with the Kronos Quartet

When the moon passed between the sun and the Earth on August 21, it didn't make a sound—but Exploratorium composer Wayne Grim and the world-famous Kronos Qua...

https://earthsky.org/earth/hear-the-aurora-when-you-cant-see-it/
10/06/2024

https://earthsky.org/earth/hear-the-aurora-when-you-cant-see-it/

Unto K. Laine of Aalto University has been studying the sounds of the aurora for years. As an acoustic engineer in Finland, Laine has made recordings of auroral noises – which sound like pops and cracks – even in the absence of visible northern lights. On January 25-26, 2022, Laine recorded four...

The Sound of Science!
09/06/2024

The Sound of Science!

14 track album

NASA Eclipse Soundscapes Project -
09/06/2024

NASA Eclipse Soundscapes Project -

Eclipse Soundscapes Project Introduction The Eclipse Soundscapes Project is a NASA Citizen Science project funded by NASA Science Activation that is studying how eclipses affect life on Earth during the October 14, 2023 annular solar eclipse and the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. Eclipse Soundsc...

New broadcast! Echolocation - Sounds of the Sky Explore the surprising aural aspect of three celestial events that happe...
03/06/2024

New broadcast!
Echolocation - Sounds of the Sky
Explore the surprising aural aspect of three celestial events that happened during spring of 2024 – the vernal equinox, total solar eclipse and aurora borealis. Featuring music and sound art by Matthew Shaw, Corey Mwamba, The Science of Sound, Wayne Grim and the Kronos Quartet, The Knife, and Aurora Borealis. Image: Pexels-Tobias Bjorkli

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Echolocation is a radio program that brings sound to light. Broadcast on WGXC 90.7 FM and wavefarm.org, Echolocation invites listeners to take an aural journey which plumbs the depths of natural sound - from the cacophonous sea floor to the sub-sonic, ultra-bass of elephant songs. Each season, Echolocation features exploration of environmental art, especially the interpretation and use of natural acoustics in sound art and musical composition. Each show shares works by artists working in the fields of bioacoustics, soundscape studies, deep listening and acoustic ecology. Featured composers include R. Murray Schaffer, Doug Quin, Lisa Walker, Hildegard Westerkamp, Pauline Oliveros and others. Each quarterly program includes news and updates from fields related to both the scientific and artistic studies of environmental sound, as well as local sounds of the season. Submissions of locally recorded and produced pieces are encouraged. Echolocation airs at 10:00 pm on 5th Saturdays on WGXC, 90.7 FM in New York’s Hudson Valley and worldwide on wavefarm.org. Past shows can be found on the WGXC archives.