Mastodawn

#CapeCod researcher from #WHOI says newly found 1949 #whale recording is critical discovery: "I hit play on that WAV file and it was goosebumps. The recording starts, and the voice comes on, and he says 'It's the 7th of March, 1949, a little note about the #hydrophone, and then you hear the plop. And then right there is the song. I'm getting goosebumps right now thinking about it."
Scientists now believe it could be the oldest recorded whale song ever discovered.
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/cape-cod-whale-recordings-woods-hole-oceanographic-institution/

Cape Cod researcher says newly found 1949 whale recording is critical discovery: "I'm getting goosebumps"

Researchers on Cape Cod say recently unearthed whale recordings from the 1940s could be a crucial discovery.

greywater systems Mar 22

Nichola Scrutton – Scenes from the Blue (Sound Encounter CD/DL) The Glasgow-based composer combines her voice with aquatic field recordings, various instruments and a lot of space in between. https://nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/album/scenes-from-the-blue #experimentalmusic #fieldrecordings #hydrophone

Bellanger Antoine Mar 11

Ce matin, je suis allé enregistrer la neige qui fond dans les empreintes des animaux avant qu'elles ne disparaissent.

#neige #snow #pyrenees #animals #empreinte #footprints #fieldrecording #montagne #mountain #hydrophone

Pierrock'n'roll Feb 18

Nouveau report sur IPR : The Boo Radleys @ l’Hydrophone
https://www.indiepoprock.fr/live-reports/concerts/the-boo-radleys-lhydrophone/
#IPR #indiepoprock #thebooradleys #booradleys #lorient #hydrophone

thomasevd Jan 19

For #artsbirthday2026 Pippa and I set up one of our Aeolian Harps and a hydrophone as a listening station at Kits Beach and later Tatlow Park, Vancouver BC. We had about 30-40 drop-by visitors and we all enjoyed the sunny day, sounds of the harp and the waves. #aeolianHarp #hydrophone #soundsculpture #soundscape

Hacker News Dec 15

$5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop

https://exclav.es/2025/08/03/dinacon-2025-passive-acoustic-listening/

#HackerNews #$5 #whale #listening #hydrophone #making #workshop #acoustic #marine #life #DIY #ocean #conservation

Dinacon 2025: Passive Acoustic Listening

Whale songs were first noticed by accident, when analysts tracking Russian submarines at the height of the cold war heard cetacean interference instead. An engineer sent some recordings to Roger Payne, a biologist friend of his, who did something that proved pivotal: he played the hours-long recordings on his hi-fi at home, while he went about his day. By listening for hours at a time, Payne noticed that these vocalizations weren’t simple chirps, but complex structured social patterns — songs, even.