.uk dhole23
Date: Wed May 6, 2009 8:53 am ((PDT))
Thomas
I would imagine to monitor such sounds will require quite a specialist
lab environment . Or at least a very quiet recording studio . I think
that " scientists " rather than " nature recordist " ( not to say there
arent people who are both ) have done so.I would also imagine that
looking for microphones that record such things would be misleading.
There will be transducers capable of detecting such sonic events Im
sure. Whether or not these events are partculy exciting when translated
into something audiable to us humans is another thing....
I think you will find that this statement :
"Nature recordists work in too narrow of a slice of the sonic spectrum."
will provoke people on this list to respond in all manner of interesting
ways . There are folk converting solar radiation and uhf and ultrasonics
into listenable representations... not too narrow.
david briggs
Thomas Ashcraft wrote:
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> Dear Nature Recordists,
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> Just some thoughts for you folks. I am just tossing this out to the
> list as a possible idea provoker and perhaps a sonic challenge to invento=
rs:
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> I am generating and amassing a vast archive of microbe videos from
> explorations of protozoa/metazoa/bacteria/ and other microorganisms that
> inhabit my rain barrel wilderness. My ongoing question is: What are the
> soundtracks for my videos? Nobody seems to have invented microphones
> with the capability of capturing the sound of, for example; Rotifer
> cilia whirling, or collisions of Paramecia with Euglenoids, or the
> thrashings of a Nematode.
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> Nature recordists work in too narrow of a slice of the sonic spectrum.
> How about some innovations/inventions that expand the range into the
> realm of microbes, or, that translate microbial motions into the human
> range of hearing?
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> Thomas Ashcraft / New Mexico
> www.heliotown.com
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