I've been wondering if I want to get into this one because, frankly, I
don't know a thing about it. But it is an interesting concept to ponder.
To what would we be listening? If there were no compliant void in the
bacteria's body, how would they modulate sound? If they can't expand
and contract to create a pressure wave, than any sound that might result
from internal friction or with the liberation of gas molecules would
either be high ultrasound, given their physical limitations (their size
is much smaller than wavelength of any sound in our auditory range), or
it would be canceled out in a very short distance from the organism.
Can we really assume that all organisms make a sound?
From a practical standpoint, it would seem a very difficult to isolate
the sound of a microorganism from the various sources of background noise.
But I'm purely speculating. I'd love to know more if anybody has
knowledge of this. I tried to follow Bernie's link, but I guess I'm too
cheap to pay for a subscription, just to scan the article.
Thomas Ashcraft wrote:
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> Mid-thread note: Please know I didn't mean to tweak anyone when I
> wrote: "Nature recordists work in too narrow of a slice of the sonic
> spectrum." I was just venting frustration at my own sensory limitations.
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> The microbe-movie soundtrack question I am facing is: do I record actual
> nature somehow? Or do I *imagine* what the microbe realms might sound
> like and thus create the soundtrack artificially? Here is a brief
> example of a medical illustration soundtrack of a t4 Bacteriophage
> targeting e. coli bacteria:
> http://www.hybridmedicalanimation.com/anim_bacteriophage.html
> <http://www.hybridmedicalanimation.com/anim_bacteriophage.html>
> The sound is kind of cool but is it "accurate"? ( If even that matters?)
> Yet, what is the "sound"/waveform jostle of the nature matrix at
> nano-scale?
>
> Maybe this is the realm of esthetics and who even cares if they insert a
> red hawk call when a bald eagle is on screen and flying overhead in the
> movies?
> Thomas / New Mexico
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