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Posted on August 10, 2017August 11, 2017

The Power of sound – Blogging the #Octonauts: Kwazii Meets the Mixed Up Whale

Following a recent post on possibly excessive self-sacrifice in an episode of the Octonauts, here’s a more unambiguously positive post on an episode which neatly illustrates an environmental issue that…

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Posted on April 22, 2017April 22, 2017

Marie Thompson on noise, “the conservative politics of silence”, and soundscapes

Recently I posted a link to an interview with sound artist Lawrence English. Via Lawrence English’s twitter I came across this fascinating interview with Dr Marie Thompson, a Lecturer at the Lincoln School of Film…

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Posted on June 1, 2016

Another note on whales and silence from Tim Severin

I blogged this paragraph from The Brendan Voyage – but here is something rather different from In Search of Moby Dick:   “Not everything matched the old whaling lore. I was startled…

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Posted on November 21, 2015

A note on whales and silence from The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin

“But on the voyage itself none of Brendan’s  crew guessed what was about to happen, not even Trondur, who had a great deal of experience of whales and whale-catching. Day after…

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