Acoustic Atlas
Acoustic Atlas is an archive of audio recordings based at the Montana State University Library in Bozeman, Montana. The collection focuses on the natural sounds of Montana and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, along with habitats and species from throughout the contiguous Western United States.
| Type of business | Educational |
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Type of site | Educational |
| Founded | 2013-02-01 |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Area served | Western United States of America |
| Created by | Jeff Rice; Kenning Arlitsch; Doralyn Rossmann; Steve Hunts; Jim Espeland |
| Website | https://acousticatlas.org |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 |
Background
The Acoustic Atlas was founded in 2013 by Montana State University Library dean Kenning Arlitsch and audio engineer Jeff Rice as a way to document the sounds of regional ecosystems and biodiversity. The archive includes contributions from Rice, sound recordist Kevin J. Colver, co-author of the Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region, and Jennifer Jerrett from the National Park Service, among others. It includes more than 3,000 online audio recordings representing approximately 90% of the West’s bird species and a range of other animals and environmental soundscapes. Sounds in the collection are provided by contractors, volunteers, researchers and federal agencies such as the National Park Service. The collection also incorporates sounds from the Western Soundscape Archive[inappropriate external link?], a project founded by Arlitsch and Rice in 2007 at the University of Utah. [1][2]
Mission
The mission of the Acoustic Atlas is to archive rare and under-represented recordings of species and environments and “to document natural soundscapes that are increasingly impeded by human activity and development.”
Types of recordings
There are three types of recordings on the Acoustic Atlas. These include relatively short recordings of isolated animal species — "species specific" recordings — that are often used to identify individual species by call type; longer ambient soundscapes that capture the collective sounds of natural environments; and interviews with scientists and other experts on subjects related to natural sounds. These recordings are organized into categories based on taxonomic class or features of the environment including water, weather, geology or dynamic chemical processes such as fire or photosynthesis[3]. Human-sourced sounds are included when they occur incidentally in environmental recordings and are typically classified as anthropogenic noise.
Sub-collections:
The Acoustic Atlas contains several sub-collections, including the sounds of terrestrial vertebrate species, species and soundscapes of Yellowstone National Park and recordings from the grassland ecosystems of Montana. Since 2017, the archive has been developing a collection of ambisonic recordings made at locations within Montana and other Western states.
The Soundscapes of Ivan Doig[inappropriate external link?] includes soundscape recordings and interviews from the lands and peoples featured in some of Doig's 16 novels. This sub-collection includes the Wind from Eden Podcast and The History of Weather in Doig Country.
Use of sounds
Many sounds recorded for the Acoustic Atlas are available for download through a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License[inappropriate external link?].
Collaborations
In 2013, the Acoustic Atlas began collaborating with Yellowstone National Park to record and archive sounds from the park. This collaboration supports the creation of new field recordings along with a podcast series that was jointly produced by Yellowstone National Park and the Acoustic Atlas from 2017-2019. In 2018, the mapping software company ESRI worked with the Acoustic Atlas to develop the story map “Sounds of the Wild West: An audio tour of Montana’s four major ecosystems.”[inappropriate external link?] Sounds from the archive have been used in feature films such as Walking Out; museum exhibits;[4] national radio programs;[5] and multimedia[6]
In popular culture
Acoustic Atlas partner Kevin J. Colver has been credited with recording a red-tailed hawk call that was used to represent an eagle in the opening title sequence of the satirical television program The Colbert Report[7].[citation needed] The hawk, recorded by Colver for the 1996 sound effects CD Animal Trax[inappropriate external link?], is often heard in television commercials and Hollywood movies such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens.[8]
References
- ↑ "You Need to Hear This". October 20, 2011.
- ↑ "Recording the sounds of the West". Los Angeles Times. January 15, 2013.
- ↑ Rice, Jeff (April 1, 2016). "Sound production in two species of eelgrass". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 139 (4): 2227–2227. doi:10.1121/1.4950692 – via asa.scitation.org (Atypon).
- ↑ "Nature All Around Us". Natural History Museum of Utah. April 22, 2019.
- ↑ "The Toads Of Trinity: Witnesses To The Atomic Age". www.wbur.org.
- ↑ "Listen to the World". September 21, 2018 – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/you-need-hear/. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "A Field Guide to the Birds of Star Wars: The Force Awakens". Audubon. December 21, 2015.
Sources
- Price, Gary (1 November 2013). "Listen Online: A New Online Atlas of Natural Sounds of Montana and American West From Montana State University Library". Library Journal. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- Bruillard, Nicolas (Summer 2016). "Surround Sound: The Acoustic Atlas' trove of recordings includes grizzly cubs purring, ice freezing, and thousands of other elusive sounds". National Parks Conservation Association. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- "'Listen' to sounds of Yellowstone". Cody Enterprise. 28 January 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- Reichard, Sean (28 January 2016). "Yellowstone, MSU's Acoustic Atlas Debut GYE Audio Collection". Yellowstone Insider. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- McGonical, Chris; Offenberg, Nick (22 March 2017). "The Sounds of Yellowstone National Park remind us why it's worth preserving". Huffington Post. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- Hobson, Jeremy (28 December 2016). "'These sounds could go away': preserving the natural ambiance of Yellowstone". WBUR Here & Now. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
- Shackleford, Tom (7 January 2019). "Yellowstone audio samples keep national parks' spirit alive during government shutdown". Live for Live Music. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
- French, Brett (19 November 2013). "A sound signature: MSU compiling regional Acoustic Atlas". Billings Gazette.
- Cantrell, Anne (8 January 2019). "Montana ecosystems come to life through sounds in new project". Missoulian.
- "Yellowstone National Park share a huge catalogue of free ambient sounds". Happy. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
- Longoria, Julia; Melathe, Alvin (4 February 2021). "Inside Yellowstone's 'Zone of Death': In Yellowstone National Park, there's a glitch in the U.S. Constitution". The Atlantic. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- Yamanaka, Jackie (January 28, 2016). "The Sounds of Yellowstone are now available online". Yellowstone Public Radio. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- "How one audio archivist works to preserve Yellowstone's iconic sounds". Here and Now. WBUR. August 22, 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- Rice, Jeff (July 16, 2018). "The toads of Trinity: witnesses to the atomic age". Here and Now. WBUR. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
- Jerrett, Jennifer (12 February 2016). "To catch a Loon". Montana Public Radio. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- "New podcasts reveal hidden stories of Hawai'i". Big Island Now. 18 September 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
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