Animals Crossing

CHAOS AND THE EMERGENT MIND OF THE POND by DAVID DUNN

https://daviddunn.bandcamp.com/track/chaos-and-the-emergent-mind-of-the-pond

Mehr Infos zum RECORDING: HIER (Acoustic ecological Institute)

(An audio collage of digital field recordings of the sounds generated by microscopic aquatic insects, recorded in freshwater ponds around North America and Africa)

Beneath the water’s surface are a variety of plants and small insects. At first their numbers seem sparse but multiply to immense proportions the longer you stare at
even a small segment of the pond’s geography

While the sounds above water are comfortable and familiar, those occurring under the
surface shocking. Their alien variety seems unprecedented as if controlled by a
mysterious but urgent logic. The minutiae which produce these audible rasps and
sputters remain mostly unseen amongst the tentacles of plants and layers of silt but
each contributes to a sonic multiverse of exquisite complexity.…

Audiorecording von der Insektenwelt innerhalb eines Baums. Von David Dunn

https://daviddunn.bandcamp.com/album/the-sound-of-light-in-trees

„All of the sounds heard in this recording occur within the interior of one species of conifer tree, the common two-needle pinion of the southwestern United States, Pinus edulis. What I mean by “the interior” are the layers of phloem and cambium between the outer bark and inner xylem of the tree. Within this narrow realm of cellulose, air, and fluid occurs an almost unknown acoustical world and an extraordinary array of living sound makers. While the majority of these sounds are made by one species of small insect (about the size of a grain of rice) known as the pinion Engraver Beetle, Ips confuses, there are possibly others such as bark beetles of the Dendroctonus genus, other species of the Ips genus, and the larvae of several species of miscellaneous invertebrates, most notably those of the many different species of Longhorn Beetles known collectively as Round Headed Wood Borers (Cerambycidae).

My intention in the composing of this collage was to convince the listener of the surprising complexity of sound occurring within one species of tree as emblematic of the interior sound worlds of trees in general. It is also intended to demonstrate the rich acoustical behavior of a single species of small insect and to suggest how sound is a much more important aspect of how it organizes its world, and interacts with its surrounding ecosystem, than previously suspected. The composition was organized around the idea that it would be possible to hear all of these sounds within one large tree if enough sensors could be simultaneously placed throughout its myriad branching structures. „…