April 19th, 2008 admin
Trey Kay talks with Andrea Polli about sonification and weather, and also interviews fellow eco-artist Brandon Ballengee in an episode called “Creative Minds Go Green”
http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2008/04/18
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January 4th, 2008 andrea
Today Hassan and I went to visit a couple more LTER met stations, one on top of Commonwealth Glacier in Taylor Valley. If you put a mic right down to the surface, the sound of a glacier is incredibly reverberant, almost as sound was going into a giant hollow space with highly reflective walls or through a tangled matrix of hollow glass tubes. It was too cold to record any melting sounds underneath the surface, but I was able to scrape and otherwise manipulate the surface to get some interesting and weird sounds. What I find weird in this short mono recording is the kind of high pitched squeaking and clicking that occurs behind the main scraping sound.
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January 1st, 2008 andrea
If you listen carefully to this very short recording, you can hear the tiny peeping of adelie penguin chicks:
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January 1st, 2008 andrea
There are several skua nests around the penguin colonies at Cape Royds. This is what happens when you get a little too close (you can hear 2 skuas in this 30 second recording, the one that starts making noise sounds to me like a person pretending to be a skua, but I assure you it is the actual sound of one):
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December 31st, 2007 andrea
Icestock is the annual music festival at McMurdo, when the whole town comes out to listen to live music and eat chili, no matter what the conditions. This year, despite a bit of snow and cold temperatures, there was quite a crowd. Much fun was to be had, but the quality of the chili was no laughing matter, as evidenced by this short clip:
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