Soundscapes
After reading for the week I tried to better understand the role of the ear witness and so I naturally googles ear witness. I found an article that correlates to what we have been discussing in class. As we rely so heavily on our vision as opposed to our hearing and the LA times article wrote an interesting article regarding the "ear witness."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/science/23angi.html
In reading about soundscape, I went to Samoa this past summer with my family to see some relatives and we went a hike to the upper jungles above where my uncle lives. We heard this really unique sound that I have certainly never heard before and he explained to me that they were fruit bats that were undergoing some hard times because they are a source of food during famine, but have recently been considered a delicacy in different regions of the world, their habitat has declined. He expressed to us how it was a usual sound to hear the bats at night, but has declined significantly with the changes in habitat. I have attached a sound of the bats, its a really erie sound, but it is a unique sound to he region and soundscape like we discussed from the readings and is something that I certainly never heard before and have not heard in any other place i have been.