šsilence speaks volumes.
on the agenda this week:Ā the sounds of extinction, suckerfish & how maps affect how we view the world around us.
āØ good morning.
on the agenda this week:Ā the sounds of extinction, suckerfish & how maps affect how we view the world around us.
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š earworm:
āoh the only cardio we know is
running out of luck.ā
maxime trippenbach, a.k.a. maxime., is an electronic-turned-indie-pop artist from ottawa, canada. max is soon self-releasing his debut album, whatevernowiscalled ā an expansive project whose soundscapes perfectly capture maxās genre-blending appeal.
who is maxime (formerly known as maxd)? give us some short info about yourself.
iām color blind, i like beer, my favourite color is yellow, i donāt quite know what iām doing with my life just yet, and iām ok with that.
pineapple on pizza! yay or nay?
if you donāt like pineapple on pizza itās just because your taste buds havenāt fully developed yet. itāll come. that being said, plain cheese pizza is by far the king of āzza.
where do you see yourself in ten years?
10 years from now? thatās a while. man, i canāt imagine iād not still be doing music. i think the coolest thing in the world would be if i could do this stuff full-time. but whatever happens, i know iām gonna keep making music no matter what.
- edm
stream now:
listen to maxime. onĀ spotifyĀ or onĀ apple music.
š word of the week:
āremoraā.
an obstacle, hindrance, or obstruction.
the great remora to any improvement in our civil code, is the reduction that such reform must produce in the revenue.
- charles caleb colton, lacon; or, many things in few words, vol. 1, 1820
as an aside, remora are also fish that attach themselves symbiotically to sharks.
their front dorsal fins evolved over time into an organ that sits like a suction cup on the top of their heads. this organ allows the remora to attach to a passing shark, usually on the sharkās belly or underside. sometimes they even attach to whales, manta rays, and the occasional diver.
š¤Ŗ mildly humorous:
outtakes from the twitter-sphere.
š§ brain candy:
šĀ the sounds of extinction.
a chilling sentence to hear from a man who has dedicated his life to recording nature:
āover 50% of my recorded habitats are now silent.ā
soundscape ecologist bernie krause used to go into the wild to record the chorus of nature. now, he has become an expert in the sound of extinction. his term for the sounds of all living organisms in the worldās habitat is ābiophony.ā
you have recorded more than 5,000 hours of sounds from different habitats, both marine and land, and more than 15,000 animal species. what are the greatest changes you have noticed over these five decades?
sadly, the greatest change is the overwhelming loss of density and diversity of species almost everywhere i go these days. in some places, like northern california, where i and my wife, katherine, live, we experienced the first completely silent spring (2015) i can ever remember in the nearly 80 years of my life. there were many birds, but they werenāt singing; it was the fifth year of the historic drought that descended on our section of the continent.
what is our culture losing by distancing itself from natural sounds?
in the end, before the forest echoes die, we may want to listen very carefully to the diminished but remaining voices of our world. weāll quickly discover that we humans are not separate. instead, weāre a vital part of one fragile biome.
what is our culture losing by distancing itself from natural sounds?
in the end, before the forest echoes die, we may want to listen very carefully to the diminished but remaining voices of our world. weāll quickly discover that we humans are not separate. instead, weāre a vital part of one fragile biome.
read moreĀ viaĀ the huffington post.
šŗĀ misleading maps.
when ian wright launched the brilliant maps twitter account and website back in 2014, to share his favourite cartographic finds, he had little inkling that it would prove such a hit. five years later, with almost 100,000 social followers and millions of annual visitors, he is left in little doubt about the universal appeal of a good map.
the vast populations of china, india and indonesia are strikingly demonstrated in the map above. canadian-born wright believes the fascination with maps lies in their ability to āvery quickly and simply convey a huge amount of information.ā
but he warns that maps can easily be used to mislead. āfor example, the mercator projection, which remains among the most popular choices for creating maps, makes northern countries (especially those in europe) look much bigger than they actually are, while africa looks much smaller,ā he says. āthis subtly feeds into the idea that the larger northern countries are somehow more important.ā
read moreĀ viaĀ the telgraph.
thatās all for this week.
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š see you next monday!
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