An assortment of technicalia concerning the sounds of Earth…

Handy references

Nature Sounds
Seismic
  • Auditory Seismology ~ Dr. Florian Dombois’s explorations with audification of seismic data
  • IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) ~ “a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth’s interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data”
  • Project IDA ~ the global broadband seismic network
  • Oklahoma Geological Survey Observatory Catalog of Nuclear Explosions
  • [Google icon] Yucca Valley at the Nevada Test Site ~ (what’s left of it, that is, after more than a half-century of nuclear explosions)
  • SAC (Seismic Analysis Code) ~ a big, powerful, and cumbersome program designed for the study of timeseries data, like seismograms. Although I don’t use SAC in my earth sound work, many of the data files I work with are in SAC format.
  • The Great Sumatra earthquake of December 2004 ~ geophysical synopsis of this catastrophic event
Data → art?
  • The Infrasound Zoo ~ time-accelerated recordings of the solid earth, the atmosphere, and the ocean from the University of Hawaii’s Infrasound Laboratory
  • Listen to a live volcano (Celso Reyes) ~ time-accelerated recordings of Aleutian volcanoes in near-real-time
  • Listening to Earthquakes (Andy Michael & Daniel Ross) ~ a nice introduction on how to listen to seismic data
  • The Sound of Seismic (John N. Louie) ~ examples of high-frequency seismic data converted to audio
  • Weathersongs (Richard Garrett) ~ turning real-time weather data into music
Miscellany

Musings

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