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General surveys
Animal performers
Composers and music from nature
Soundscape art
Applied sound science
Sonic architecture
Birds
Supernatural sounds
General surveys
BBC Radio 4 series with Aubrey Manning exploring the Sound of Life
The Sound of Life
Survey of music with stones, from plants, insect sounds, animal music and animal performances
Julian Cowley's survey of sound art history
Animal performers
Thai Elephant Orchestra recordings, articles, and videos
See elephant paintings at the Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project
Training monkeys for organ grinders in the 19th Century
History of Mechanical Animals
A French Bird Organ or Serinette, 1778
Fish that hum
Composers and music from nature
Hear Suffolk schoolchildren's compositions from their nature week studies
Sounds of space collected by University of Iowa astronomers led by Don Gurnett
Lecture on Sun Rings for space sounds and string quartet with Terry Riley, Kronos Quartet and Prof. Donald Gurnett
Rob Young's article on the physiological effects of sound, covering Panasonic, Disinformation, Alan Lamb and Bernhard Günter
Tasmanian musician Ron Nagorcka who lives and works in the rainforest
Composer, bioacoustician David Dunn' writings: "Music, Language and Environment"
Environmental sound sculptor Bill Fontana
Composer and nature/peace activist Steve Heitzeg
Music from the Ocean by Bob L. Sturm
Interspecies, an organization to promote musical connections with non-human animals
Environmental sound artist Philip Blackburn
Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening practice
Aeolian musical instruments
Soundscape art
Writing by soundscape artist Hildegard Westerkamp
"The Voice of the Planet is the Muse," an online exhibition of soundscape art curated by Jim Cummings of earthear.com
EarthEar: Resource for soundscape recordings and information
The Acoustic Ecology Institute
Essay by Rene Van Peer on Francisco Lopez's CD "La Selva, Sound Environments from a neo-tropical rainforest"
The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
The World Soundscape Project
Interactive sound environment project by UK teens
Australia AdLib environmental sounds and music
Andrea Polli, data sonification artist
Applied sound science
Dan Carlson's Sonic Bloom technology
Article on Sonic Bloom
Photos of water crystals exposed to sound by Masaru Emoto
Wild Music, an exhibition of Biomusic organized by the Science Museum of Minnesota in 2007
Edmund Gerstein's research into manatee hearing: "Manatees, Bioacoustics, and Boats"
Sonic architecture
The sounds of megalithic monuments
BBC Radio 4 program Acoustic Shadows, explores palaeoacoustics and architectural acoustics
Echoes and communication, links to David Lubman's Maya Pyramid acoustics and Steven J. Waller's Rock Art Acoustics sites
Scientific American article on Shaping Sound, sonic architecture
Video of the Quetzal's call, replicated by the Maya pyramids
Sound mirrors used as acoustic early warning devices before radar
Birds
BBC's dawn chorus birdsong project
Science of birdsong
John Baily's investigation of Afghan reactions to birdsong and Messiaen's "Le Loriot"
Article on birdsong and music
Charles Butler's "Piping and Quacking of Queen Bees" (1609)
Beatrice Harrison, the cello and the nightingale as part of early radio history
Whales' deaths linked to Navy sonar testing
Supernatural sounds
The American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP)
How to record EVP
Is sound creating crop circles?
Colin Andrews crop circle information
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