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Insect noise in stored foodstuffs

Insect noise in stored foodstuffs

"In short, there is an entire sonic landscape of pests eating stored foods: a distinctive range of muffled boring, tapping, scraping, and crunching sounds emerging from supposedly silent grain elevators across the country."

IMAGE: Characteristic sound spectra of rice weevil larvae (left) and adults (right) in wheat. Diagrams via Francis Fleurat-Lessard’s paper, “Acoustic detection and automatic identification of insect stages ac...,” presented at the 9th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection.

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Permalink Reply by darrin verhagen on January 12, 2010 at 1:24pm: yeah - i used to distribute this album. it's probably more exciting conceptually than timbrally.

but i think i sold a copy to phil samartzis if you want to track one down....

cheers,

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Permalink Reply by Michael Pulsford on January 12, 2010 at 3:48pm: Nah, I just thought it was a funny story. I have an engineer friend who used similar tools to detect worn bearings in trains, basically a mic pointed at a train track and a bunch of analytical software crunching the acoustic data. I find it interesting because it's something I'd never think of doing..

darrin verhagen said:
yeah - i used to distribute this album. it's probably more exciting conceptually than timbrally.

but i think i sold a copy to phil samartzis if you want to track one down....

cheers,

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