Good question, Aaron. By its very name, biophony means sound from any
biological source. While it has been framed primarily for critters
from micro-organisms to large whales, it also includes certain
categories of plant life. Mycophony, a fine term BTW, would then be a
sub-category.
On the plant side, I have recordings from the early 1970 of corn
growing and later (early 80s) of cells popping within the xylem and
phloem of certain species of trees as they apparently suck in air to
maintain osmotic pressure and pop when they dry out, dying and thus
forming the rings. On the micro side, about 10 years ago there was a
study at Cambridge citing sound signatures from viruses titled "Direct
& Sensitive Detection of a Human Virus by Rupture Event Scanning," by
Matthew A. Cooper, et al. And we've been doing some work on T-cells
(related to HIV) trying to isolate the signatures.
Bernie
On Apr 21, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Aaron Ximm wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Bernie Krause < .com=
> > wrote:
>> Your argument is supported, Jeremiah. Biophony speaks only to
>> biological, non-human sources of sound in a given habitat. Geophony
>> is
>> comprised of all other natural non-biological sound sources emanating
>> from a habitat. Anthrophony is made up of human-generated sound.
>
> Say, Bernie,
>
> Has much survey been done on the non-animal biophany? E.g.
> plant-sounds? Mycophony?
>
> I can think of the example of David Dunn's recordings of vascular
> systems, but that's it...
>
> Hmmm... Mycophone. Good project name. Dibs! :)
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