Yup. A film crew in Hollywood was trying to get me off the set back
in the late 60s and wanted to send me as far away as possible. So I
was exiled to Iowa in late July or early August (I forget, now) to
record corn growing. It was a hot August night and the corn was
telescoping pretty quickly - expanding about an inch (2.5cm) to an
inch and a half (over 3 cm) that particular night squeeking and
popping as it did so. After a while, it was pretty
uninteresting...especially when punctuated by occasional slaps at
mosquitoes. More about this can be found on P. 61 of "Wild
Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World," my recent
book, Rich.
Bernie
>I was talking this last weekend with a very old farmer. I made the
>comment that we were about as productive as a farmer sitting around
>watching the corn grow. I was then corrected by the farmer and told
>that one sits around and listens to the corn grow not watches it.
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>In trying to get more information out of a now deaf farmer I only was
>able to learn that on quiet humid days in early summer you could hear
>the corn grow.
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>Can anyone fill me in with some more specifics? Before I spend a
>bunch of time in rural corn fields chasing what I know nothing about?
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>Rich Peet
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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