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The Importance of Acoustics in Food Storage
- nkurz 11y agoWhile the physical CD isn't currently available even through Ebay, through the wonders of modern technology you can still listen to the full album online: High-sensitivity recordings of various types of insect pests released for the 5th International working conference on stored product protection, 1990. This is the full and unedited version of the recording. INRA. Insect noise in stored foodstuffs. "Ces vibrations caracteristiques, plus proches de la musique que du bruit, trahissent la presence de tous ces convives invisibles qui ne peuvent se tenir silencieux. A.J. Andrieu et F. Fleurat-Lessard." 01. Detecting pests in stored foodstuffs and wood. 02. Rice weevil larvae in rice. 03. Angoumois grain moth larvae in maize. 04. Grain weevil larvae in barley. 05. Communication signals of termites in wood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FISDgcaBSYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FISDgcaBSYQ
- agumonkey 11y agoThe opposite of rain samples on your mind.
- zaroth 11y agoTry 2 minutes 4 seconds in... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FISDgcaBSYQ#t=2m4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FISDgcaBSYQ#t=2m4s
- agumonkey 11y agoI listened to the first quarter. All this squeaks and creaks have just enough rhythm to induce living form presence lurking closer, which stresses me out.
- zaroth 11y agoEnjoyed the writing style, and had to laugh at; "A fairly select group of entomologists, including several specialists at the USDA’s Insect Behavior and Biocontrol Research Unit, have thus spent the past twenty years investigating the acoustic detection of insect noise." I love how incredibly broad and infinitely "specializable" our economy is. Scale enables such wonderful focus.
- aab0 11y agoCowen's law: whatever it is, there's a literature on it. All those hundreds of thousands of research papers published each year have to be on something...
- jefurii 11y ago> Deep in the archives of San Francisco-based Aquarius Records, buried between several days’ worth of “laptop glitchery” and “brutal industro-crunch,” lies this gem: Insect Noise in Stored Foodstuffs, Aquarius Records is awesome.
- zengid 11y agoI'm elated at the thought that this ties together my diverse experience: music production, software engineering, and a job as a bulk-foods manager who had to deal with spotting worms in the bins. Wow.
- jacquesm 11y ago> a job as a bulk-foods manager who had to deal with spotting worms in the bins. Wow. That reminds me of a story about chocolate manufacture that I'd just as soon forget.