Sorry, Greg. The work is under NDA so I can't reveal the t-cell effort
just yet. But it should be published at some point. As for the other
virus, you might be able to get that from the paper's author cited in
my early note.
Bernie
On Apr 22, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Gregory O'Drobinak wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I do believe that mycology is the study of fungi, so one would
> assume that "mycophony" would be the sound generated by mushrooms or
> something similar. So I don't think that Aaron's term is a good fit
> for plant sounds in general; people might get confused as to what
> you really mean.
>
> Perhaps you could use the term "botaphony" or maybe "botanophony".
> In either case, you'd have to clue many folks into the meaning and
> intent of the term in order to have it assimilated in any general
> manner.
>
> I would definitely like to hear more sounds made by plants. The
> subject of sounds from corn growing has been mentioned by several of
> my friends and my brother-in-law has heard sounds from watermelons
> growing on his grandfather's farm, but I have never heard either of
> these sounds. The good news is that I have some new mics & the
> growing season is yet to come, so I have some time to get prepared
> for it!
>
> Bernie, do you have any virus or T-cell sound files that you can
> share?
>
> Take care,
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>
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>
> 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! :)
>>
>> aaron
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