There's been a lot of press about Aquaponics and sustainable fish farming cropping up lately, so I wanted to share this astonishingly beautiful example: Sepp Holzer lives on a mountaintop… Read the rest of the article: Austrian Alpine Aquaculture

I recently learned that some birds have been found to be able to isolate and control different parts of their vocal tract independently, allowing them to sing simultaneous double tones… Read the rest of the article: Cantos De Aves Do Brasil

This album from the legenday Ocora label is really one of my favorites on the planet. When I first heard these two girls sing I had to be actively convinced… Read the rest of the article: Musiques Traditionelles du Burundi

Yesterday I wrote about curator Ian Nagoski's wonderful 78's collection and I thought I'd share another phenomenal collector, Jonathan Ward of the prolific Excavated Shellac blog. Kr. Irama, by Moh.… Read the rest of the article: Rare 78's Heaven Part 2: Excavated Shellac

The liner notes say it was recorded in: "Mongolia and Buriatia in 1967, 1968, and 1970 in the course of field work organized in the frame work of the Protocole… Read the rest of the article: Chants Mongols Et Bouriates

Click on the picture to hear a clip. Hollerin' is not for the weak of spirit. It's a long-distance communications device, alarm system, karaoke alternative, and slightly questionable method of… Read the rest of the article: Hollerin'!

This multi-screen video installation by British artist Marcus Coates is both hilarious and fascinating. To create the videos for the project, Coates took slowed-down birdcalls and taught various people to… Read the rest of the article: Dawn Chorus

I first heard this heart-stopping song from 1919 by Greek singer Marika Papagika on Ian Nagoski's Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Music (a compilation released on the Dust-to-Digital label a… Read the rest of the article: Rare 78's Heaven Part 1: Black Mirror Music

With each frame hand-drawn in pencil and smudged into the next, Oscar-winning animator Frédéric Back tells the story of Elzéard Bouffier, a lone shepherd in the Alps near Provence who… Read the rest of the article: The Incredible Animation of Frédéric Back

Bernie Krause, (who recorded this clip), says that this baby vulture in Ecuador is using the the tree trunk it's installed in as a resonator to make its voice more… Read the rest of the article: New baby scare tactics

Before they were the first women to become famous on the Grand Ole Opry and the National Barn Dance, The Cackle Sisters, (also known as the DeZurick Sisters) were raised… Read the rest of the article: Cackle Sisters

I've always been a fan of anything that uses the concept of bone conduction. A friend who worked as a field medic for public protests years ago told me that… Read the rest of the article: The Beauty of Bones (and Skinput)

This is music made by four postal workers as they cancel postage! When I listen carefully, I think I can actually hear the spring mechanisms as the stamps hit the… Read the rest of the article: An Enviable Post Office in Ghana

Every time I have put this on at least three new conversions occur, where the listeners go on to permanently install this woman's music on their stereo. My neighbor even… Read the rest of the article: Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

If you've never seen anyone handle their instrument like Charlie Patton might have, this musician from Botswana is incredible–I think I can safely say I've never really seen anyone play… Read the rest of the article: Happy New Year Luie!

Bioacoustician Bernie Krause has recorded the amazingly rhythmic vascular systems of thirsty trees:  alt : http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/18/guestblog/tree2%20copy.mp3 He discovered that the cells in the xylem and phloem of the tree fill… Read the rest of the article: The Sound of Thirsty Trees

My documentarian friend Andrea Dunlap over at the Seedling Project pointed out this great footage of a 'scissor dancing' contest in Peru, something she saw when she was living and… Read the rest of the article: Peruvian Scissor Dancing

From the title of this Victorian science book it's not out of line to assume that there might be at least a few diy methods for accidentally electrocuting yourself, but… Read the rest of the article: The Young Man's Book of Amusement

I really love the research that they're doing over at Yale's Haskins Laboratories: instead of studying speech perception and production in terms of faithfully replicating alllll of the sounds we… Read the rest of the article: Whistling Speech

Miles Davis called him "the most impressive musician in the world". He's Hermeto Pascoal from Brasil, and this is how he does it: Aside from Hermeto's infectiously liberated attitude, this… Read the rest of the article: Música da Lagoa