The ABC Science team spent six weeks travelling all over Australia to record 200 sounds for a soundtrack of the country. It was a challenging undertaking. Here's how they did it.
thinking — what sounds would we put on our own record to represent our corner of the earth — Australia?has spent her career recording and collecting sounds, making her the perfect host to take us on a sonic and visual odyssey across the country.It required two crews filming for a total of six weeks to travel the country and record over 200 bespoke sounds from which we've created our own "golden" vinyl record called The Soundtrack of Australia.
With the help of physicist Dr John Debs from ANU, the shed was set up with various equipment, including a Rubens Tube and Chladni Plate, which allow us to see frequency and resonance.Ngemba man Kristian Benton showed us how part of the instrument was fashioned by termites — giving each one its own unique timbre.
A few days before we arrived, he'd taken a French film crew out to try and film some displays but after three days of trying, they'd had no luck. This was the most amazing example of the transmission of sounds from one bird to another — exactly what we'd come to the forest to talk about. Ann turned to the crew and joked: "Right then, that's in the can! What do we do for the rest of the day?"In order to explore infrasound — sounds below 20Hz that humans can't hear — we set off on a boat trip to Perth Canyon, 20km west of Rottnest Island, WA.
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