Fundamental Resonance

About Fundamental Resonance

Fundamental Resonance is an 8-part episodic audio collage exploring the nature of electromagnetism and it’s expression through sound. This project is not just about sound, though. It's also about ways to interpret the inaudible and what things we cannot sense can reveal about the world around us. These audio essays are composed of sounds you would not normally encounter or even be able to hear. They are made up of sonic artifacts left behind by movements of energy and captured through different methods of scientific inquiry. Each episode will introduce a specific energetic phenomena and explain the ways the featured sounds were captured or created, accompanied by a collage made up of those sounds. Fundamental Resonance is an audio supplement to the art exhibition Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific (https://energyfields.la). Co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University, this exhibition runs from September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2024 as part of PST ART Fundamental Resonance is a production of Sam Rowell, Special Collections (https://specialcollections.radio), Fulcrum Arts (https://fulcrumarts.org), and LOOKOUT FM (https://lookout.fm). Episodes begin September 15th and will also be broadcast on terrestrial radio at KFQM-LP 101.5 FM Pacific Palisades.

Publisher

Sam Rowell

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Sept 2024

Latest episode

5 Nov 2024

Latest episodes

9 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Nov 2024

   Radio Ears

   This program delves into the sounds of Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. With the Earth’s magnetic field acting as a natural waveguide, both man-made signals and natural phenomena can be heard in across the radio spectrum. Using radio as translator, invisible phenomena manifest as auditory experiences, allowing a glimpse at the unseen electromagnetic tapestry that surrounds each of us in our daily lives. Featured sounds: lightning (spherics and whistlers), cosmic background radiation, the Earth’s magnetic field, space weather, radar, auroras, meteors, sun storms, and the magnetic field that protects the Earth from solar radiation, the Van Allen Belt. Sourced sounds: Worldwide Archive of Low-frequency Data and Observations (https://waldo.world/) University of Iowa Department of Physics, EMFISIS project (https://space.physics.uiowa.edu/plasma-wave/rbsp/audio/) British Antarctic Survey Very Low Frequency Receiver at Halley Research Station (https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/sounds-of-space/) Fundamental Resonance (https://lookout.fm/fundamental) is a broadcast series that takes a new approach to the audition of acoustic, mechanical, and electromagnetic vibrations. This project is not just about sound, though. It's also about ways to interpret the inaudible and what things we cannot sense can reveal about the universe. In each episode, inaudible acoustics and sonified data act as a bridge between signal and soundscape, uncovering forces that shape our environment and experience, yet are rarely perceived. These audio essays are composed of sounds you would not normally encounter or even be able to hear. They are made up of sonic artifacts left behind by movements of energy and captured through different methods of scientific inquiry. Fundamental Resonance is an audio supplement to the art exhibition Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific (https://energyfields.la/). Co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University, this exhibition runs from September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2024 as part of PST ART. (https://www.getty.edu/projects/pacific-standard-time-2024/) Fundamental Resonance is a production of Sam Rowell, Special Collections (https://specialcollections.radio/), Fulcrum Arts (https://fulcrumarts.org/), and LOOKOUT FM (https://lookout.fm/). Episodes begin September 15th and will also be broadcast on terrestrial radio at KFQM-LP 101.5 FM Pacific Palisades.

2. 

   28 Oct 2024

   Electromagnetic Field Recordings

   This program features a trip around Los Angeles recording the electromagnetic landscape using a wide band radio receiver. Rather than being designed to help pick up a particular frequency, as a standard FM radio would, the SOMA Ether “anti-radio” picks up all electromagnetic signals in the air around it and converts them to sound. Soma Laboratory: Ether (https://somasynths.com/ether/) Fundamental Resonance (https://lookout.fm/fundamental) is a broadcast series that takes a new approach to the audition of acoustic, mechanical, and electromagnetic vibrations. This project is not just about sound, though. It's also about ways to interpret the inaudible and what things we cannot sense can reveal about the universe. In each episode, inaudible acoustics and sonified data act as a bridge between signal and soundscape, uncovering forces that shape our environment and experience, yet are rarely perceived. These audio essays are composed of sounds you would not normally encounter or even be able to hear. They are made up of sonic artifacts left behind by movements of energy and captured through different methods of scientific inquiry. Fundamental Resonance is an audio supplement to the art exhibition Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific (https://energyfields.la/). Co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University, this exhibition runs from September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2024 as part of PST ART. (https://www.getty.edu/projects/pacific-standard-time-2024/) Fundamental Resonance is a production of Sam Rowell, Special Collections (https://specialcollections.radio/), Fulcrum Arts (https://fulcrumarts.org/), and LOOKOUT FM (https://lookout.fm/). Episodes begin September 15th and will also be broadcast on terrestrial radio at KFQM-LP 101.5 FM Pacific Palisades.

3. 

   20 Oct 2024

   Seeking with Sound: Detectors

   This program explores the sonic signatures created by techniques of detecting with sound as well as the sounds made by detectors. Bat detectors, geiger counters, electrorecepetion, metal detectors, archeoacoustics and sonar are discussed and auditioned in this survey of the technologies, methods, and techniques used in sonic detection. Sourced sounds: Science History Institute Museum and Library Digital Collections (https://digital.sciencehistory.org/) European Music Archaeology Project (https://www.emaproject.eu/content/soundgate-app.html) Acoustic Atlas (https://www.acousticatlas.de/experience) Bat Detective (https://www.batdetective.org/) The U.K. Acoustics Network Open Access Underwater Acoustics Data (https://acoustics.ac.uk/open-access-underwater-acoustics-data/) Fundamental Resonance (https://lookout.fm/fundamental) is a broadcast series that takes a new approach to the audition of acoustic, mechanical, and electromagnetic vibrations. This project is not just about sound, though. It's also about ways to interpret the inaudible and what things we cannot sense can reveal about the universe. In each episode, inaudible acoustics and sonified data act as a bridge between signal and soundscape, uncovering forces that shape our environment and experience, yet are rarely perceived. These audio essays are composed of sounds you would not normally encounter or even be able to hear. They are made up of sonic artifacts left behind by movements of energy and captured through different methods of scientific inquiry. Fundamental Resonance is an audio supplement to the art exhibition Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific (https://energyfields.la/). Co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University, this exhibition runs from September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2024 as part of PST ART. (https://www.getty.edu/projects/pacific-standard-time-2024/) Fundamental Resonance is a production of Sam Rowell, Special Collections (https://specialcollections.radio/), Fulcrum Arts (https://fulcrumarts.org/), and LOOKOUT FM (https://lookout.fm/). Episodes begin September 15th and will also be broadcast on terrestrial radio at KFQM-LP 101.5 FM Pacific Palisades.

4. 

   14 Oct 2024

   Infrasound

   Infrasound refers to sound waves with frequencies below 20 Hz, which are too low for the human ear to detect. These waves are produced naturally by various sources such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, storms, and meteor impacts, as well as by anthropogenic sources like industrial machinery, wind turbines, and nuclear weapons. This program describes the ways infrasound has been observed and documented throughout history, the effects and the ways it is recorded and made audible, with a detour into the aesthetics of technological mediation of inaudible sound. Featured Sounds: Infrasound Laboratory University of Hawaii (https://www.isla.hawaii.edu/) University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute (https://watc.alaska.edu/node/10) Leo Brady Seismic Network Sandia National Laboratories (https://conferences.ctbto.org/event/23/contributions/4952/) Fundamental Resonance (https://lookout.fm/fundamental) is a broadcast series that takes a new approach to the audition of acoustic, mechanical, and electromagnetic vibrations. This project is not just about sound, though. It's also about ways to interpret the inaudible and what things we cannot sense can reveal about the universe. In each episode, inaudible acoustics and sonified data act as a bridge between signal and soundscape, uncovering forces that shape our environment and experience, yet are rarely perceived. These audio essays are composed of sounds you would not normally encounter or even be able to hear. They are made up of sonic artifacts left behind by movements of energy and captured through different methods of scientific inquiry. Fundamental Resonance is an audio supplement to the art exhibition Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific (https://energyfields.la/). Co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University, this exhibition runs from September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2024 as part of PST ART. (https://www.getty.edu/projects/pacific-standard-time-2024/) Fundamental Resonance is a production of Sam Rowell, Special Collections (https://specialcollections.radio/), Fulcrum Arts (https://fulcrumarts.org/), and LOOKOUT FM (https://lookout.fm/). Episodes begin September 15th and will also be broadcast on terrestrial radio at KFQM-LP 101.5 FM Pacific Palisades.

5. 

   10 Oct 2024

   Internal Medicine: Anechoic Chamber and Medical Sonification

   This program delves into the auditory landscape of the human body, examining the sounds of the body experienced within an anechoic chamber and via sonification of the outputs of medical devices. In an anechoic chamber—a room meticulously designed to eliminate all echoes and external noise— silence becomes an almost physical force and the inner sounds of the working body emerge: the steady thump of a heartbeat, the subtle rush of blood through veins, and even the faint hum of the nervous system. Medical technologies that can translate the body’s hidden vibrations into audible data also allow the sounds of human physiology to emerge. Ultrasound, EEG, MRI, and digital stethoscopes reveal the intricate workings of the human body, transforming subtle physical processes that would normally pass unnoticed into sonic diagnoses. Anechoic chamber recreation based on personal experience inside the USC MEMS group Anechoic Chamber for Acoustic Testing and made with a Roland SH-1 synthesizer The sounds of medical device sonification that accompany this episode were collected from the following sources: The MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database (https://physionet.org/content/mitdb/1.0.0/) The Respiratory Sound Database (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/vbookshelf/respiratory-sound-database), published as part of the 2017 International Conference on Biomedical Health Informatics Coswara (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02266-0), a respiratory sounds dataset for remote screening of SARS-CoV-2 infection, created by the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository (https://archive.ics.uci.edu/dataset/5/arrhythmia) Fundamental Resonance (https://lookout.fm/fundamental) is a broadcast series that takes a new approach to the audition of acoustic, mechanical, and electromagnetic vibrations. This project is not just about sound, though. It's also about ways to interpret the inaudible and what things we cannot sense can reveal about the universe. In each episode, inaudible acoustics and sonified data act as a bridge between signal and soundscape, uncovering forces that shape our environment and experience, yet are rarely perceived. These audio essays are composed of sounds you would not normally encounter or even be able to hear. They are made up of sonic artifacts left behind by movements of energy and captured through different methods of scientific inquiry. Fundamental Resonance is an audio supplement to the art exhibition Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific (https://energyfields.la/). Co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University, this exhibition runs from September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2024 as part of PST ART. (https://www.getty.edu/projects/pacific-standard-time-2024/) Fundamental Resonance is a production of Sam Rowell, Special Collections (https://specialcollections.radio/), Fulcrum Arts (https://fulcrumarts.org/), and LOOKOUT FM (https://lookout.fm/). Episodes begin September 15th and will also be broadcast on terrestrial radio at KFQM-LP 101.5 FM Pacific Palisades.

6. 

   29 Sept 2024

   Deep Listening: Submarine Surveillance, the SOFAR channel, and the Sanctuary Sound Program

   This program explores the transformation of a secret military surveillance network into a crucial scientific tool for ocean exploration, and an anomalous feature of a certain part of the ocean that started it all. During the Cold War, the U.S. Navy developed the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), using underwater hydrophones to detect Soviet submarines by listening to the ocean. This technology, originally designed for surveillance, has since been repurposed for scientific research. The hydrophones that once monitored the oceans for Soviet submarine activity now form the keystone of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Sanctuary Soundscape Monitoring Project (SanctSound) and are vital tools to understanding marine life, monitoring earthquake an volcano activity, and enforcing nuclear test bans. Sourced sounds, all recorded with the SanctSound, formerly SOSUS, hydrophone array: Gray whales, Humpback whales, LFA sonar, Fin whales, boat engines, echosounders, damselfish, and unknown anthropogenic noises. Over 300 TB of data has been made available through this project, much of it in the form of raw audio, and all in the public domain. The Sanctuary Soundscape website is available at https://sanctsound.ioos.us (https://sanctsound.ioos.us) Access to the raw audio data is available through the National Centers for Environmental Information https://www.ncei.noaa.gov (http://www.ncei.noaa.gov) Fundamental Resonance is a broadcast series that takes a new approach to the audition of acoustic, mechanical, and electromagnetic vibrations. This project is not just about sound, though. It's also about ways to interpret the inaudible and what things we cannot sense can reveal about the universe. In each episode, inaudible acoustics and sonified data act as a bridge between signal and soundscape, uncovering forces that shape our environment and experience, yet are rarely perceived. These audio essays are composed of sounds you would not normally encounter or even be able to hear. They are made up of sonic artifacts left behind by movements of energy and captured through different methods of scientific inquiry. Fundamental Resonance is an audio supplement to the art exhibition Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific (https://energyfields.la/). Co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University, this exhibition runs from September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2024 as part of PST ART. (https://www.getty.edu/projects/pacific-standard-time-2024/) Fundamental Resonance is a production of Sam Rowell, Special Collections (https://specialcollections.radio/), Fulcrum Arts (https://fulcrumarts.org/), and LOOKOUT FM (https://lookout.fm/). Episodes begin September 15th and will also be broadcast on terrestrial radio at KFQM-LP 101.5 FM Pacific Palisades.

7. 

   23 Sept 2024

   Studying the Sun from the Inside Out

   This program explores how scientists use sound to gain new insights about the Sun. By converting data from the Sun's electromagnetic fields into sound through a process called sonification, scientists are able to "listen" to the Sun's energy, offering a unique way to study the complex processes happening deep within its core. Sourced sounds: sonifications of data sets of solar activity captured by the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI). This data was downloaded from The Sonification of Solar Harmonics Project at the Stanford Solar Center https://solar-center.stanford.edu/sosh (https://solar-center.stanford.edu/sosh) Fundamental Resonance is a broadcast series that takes a new approach to the audition of acoustic, mechanical, and electromagnetic vibrations. This project is not just about sound, though. It's also about ways to interpret the inaudible and what things we cannot sense can reveal about the universe. In each episode, inaudible acoustics and sonified data act as a bridge between signal and soundscape, uncovering forces that shape our environment and experience, yet are rarely perceived. These audio essays are composed of sounds you would not normally encounter or even be able to hear. They are made up of sonic artifacts left behind by movements of energy and captured through different methods of scientific inquiry. Fundamental Resonance is an audio supplement to the art exhibition Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific (https://energyfields.la/). Co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University, this exhibition runs from September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2024 as part of PST ART. (https://www.getty.edu/projects/pacific-standard-time-2024/) Fundamental Resonance is a production of Sam Rowell, Special Collections (https://specialcollections.radio/), Fulcrum Arts (https://fulcrumarts.org/), and LOOKOUT FM (https://lookout.fm/). Episodes begin September 15th and will also be broadcast on terrestrial radio at KFQM-LP 101.5 FM Pacific Palisades.

8. 

   15 Sept 2024

   Sonic Cartographies

   Before there were any stars or galaxies, 13.8 billion years ago, our universe was just a ball of hot plasma -- a mixture of electrons, protons, and light. This program explains what we hear when we listen to “sounds from space” and the ways in which scientific study of the distribution and metamorphosis of the original energetic content of the “Big Bang” has enabled the mapping of the cosmos. Sourced sounds: Large Hadron Collider European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) (https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider) University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy (https://space-audio.org/) University of Iowa Plasma Wave Research Group (https://space.physics.uiowa.edu/plasma-wave/voyager-audio.html) NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory (https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/sound/%23m87jet) Fundamental Resonance is a broadcast series that takes a new approach to the audition of acoustic, mechanical, and electromagnetic vibrations. This project is not just about sound, though. It's also about ways to interpret the inaudible and what things we cannot sense can reveal about the universe. In each episode, inaudible acoustics and sonified data act as a bridge between signal and soundscape, uncovering forces that shape our environment and experience, yet are rarely perceived. These audio essays are composed of sounds you would not normally encounter or even be able to hear. They are made up of sonic artifacts left behind by movements of energy and captured through different methods of scientific inquiry. Fundamental Resonance is an audio supplement to the art exhibition Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific (https://energyfields.la/). Co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University, this exhibition runs from September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2024 as part of PST ART. (https://www.getty.edu/projects/pacific-standard-time-2024/) Fundamental Resonance is a production of Sam Rowell, Special Collections (https://specialcollections.radio/), Fulcrum Arts (https://fulcrumarts.org/), and LOOKOUT FM (https://lookout.fm/). Episodes begin September 15th and will also be broadcast on terrestrial radio at KFQM-LP 101.5 FM Pacific Palisades.

9. 

   15 Sept 2024

   Fundamental Resonance Trailer

   Fundamental Resonance is a broadcast series that takes a new approach to the audition of acoustic, mechanical, and electromagnetic vibrations. This project is not just about sound, though. It's also about ways to interpret the inaudible and what things we cannot sense can reveal about the universe. In each episode, inaudible acoustics and sonified data act as a bridge between signal and soundscape, uncovering forces that shape our environment and experience, yet are rarely perceived. These audio essays are composed of sounds you would not normally encounter or even be able to hear. They are made up of sonic artifacts left behind by movements of energy and captured through different methods of scientific inquiry. Fundamental Resonance is an audio supplement to the art exhibition Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific (https://energyfields.la). Co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University, this exhibition runs from September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2024 as part of PST ART. (https://www.getty.edu/projects/pacific-standard-time-2024/) Fundamental Resonance is a production of Sam Rowell, Special Collections (https://specialcollections.radio), Fulcrum Arts (https://fulcrumarts.org), and LOOKOUT FM (https://lookout.fm/). Episodes begin September 15th and will also be broadcast on terrestrial radio at KFQM-LP 101.5 FM Pacific Palisades.

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