Noise Diary 005: Wat Saket Temple Bells

I find myself going back to this one over and over again:

Andreas Bick - Wak Saket Temple Bells in Bangkok:

On the winding way up to the temple top there are two rows of differently tuned temple bells that are struck by the pilgrims on the way back down.

I like to pretend that's what I hear out my windows.

Noise Diary 003: Volcanic Doom!

You might have heard that there's some kind of goddamn Volcano going on in Iceland.

©Marco Fulle, via Astronomy Picture of the Day

Good old Silent Listening has just the sounds for us:

Suffice to say that it was a bone-chilling and mesmerizing experience which is not really carried along with this uncompressed and raw sound recording if heard at normal level – so please turn up the volume for a bigger effect (and imgine the smell of sulfer crawling up your nose)…

Andreas Bick - Mt. Yasur (2004)


And because a) I can and b) "Mother Earth" is today's fucking buzzword

Happy Earth Day: LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out (1990)

Noise Diary 001: Breaking Ice

Underwater microphone + shattering ice noise = lasers

Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets (2006)


Andreas Bick posts pretty great clips of all kinds of things over at Silent Listening. I haven't given it nearly the amount of time I want, but I always find something good there when I poke around.