If there's one thing I'd hope the music community learns from Leave Spotify it's this: The signs were there for years but we acted too slow. Artists are broke. The LLM has its dataset for AI slop. Ek has made his billions and reinvested in AI+war. The damage is done. Next time we must move faster.

My article about 'spooky' wildlife and some of their most gruesome and macabre behaviours, but also how to celebrate Halloween far more sustainably! This also marks my 100th article for @aunz.theconversation.com 🎉 🥳. theconversation.com/lets-celebra...

These people are our enemies.

Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate. Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.

On creating and hyper-focusing soundcloud.com/melissapons/...

As I'm doing adjudication for an #audiodrama festival it's baffling how many are compressing the 🤬 out of their master that it sounds overbaked/crispy/distorted Don't do that. You're ruining all your hard work of sound designing, #editing and #mixing by crisping the overall tone

To philosophize in sound is to embrace withdrawal, to think not about the unsayable but from within it. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...

Beautiful

New on Earth.FM by @felixblume.bsky.social "Aquatic recordings of grey dolphins calling and moving in (...) the river Tefé in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil. (...) I’ve waited and listened to the dolphins with Edinaldo and Janilson from the community of Tauary." earth.fm/recordings/a...

Quiet and lovely nocturnal sounds with mating calls of midwife toads and tawny owls 🌙 Recording by @melissapons.bsky.social earth.fm/recordings/m...

New recording! They are loud, they are acoustic engineers and builders: the mole cricket! Field recording by @melissapons.bsky.social earth.fm/recordings/m...

Quiet but electrifying! 🌙 Field recording by @melissapons.bsky.social earth.fm/recordings/t...

Thank you, Serge! 🪐

Tonight at 10pm (GMT+1) performances from sound art residency Endless Fields. 💫 With Cameron Randall, Iddo Aharony, Stefan Arrigoni M, Anna Clock, Tiago M C de Sousa, Ivo Louro, Melissa Pons, and Xavier Velastín. www.resonancefm.com/schedule

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🌏 New recording! - a rural soundscape from Yunnan, China in a wide and peaceful ranch in deep mountain and river valleys of Shangri-la. Field recording by Yang Jie earth.fm/recordings/s...

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug.

Hello birders! Can you help me identify / decipher the red-billed chough calls on this track? Besides the flight call, there is some fantastic chatter (starting at 37 secs) and I'd like to understand more of it. Thank you in advance! melissapons.bandcamp.com/track/profus...

Help! I just found this baby under my kitchen cabinets! How can I help it?

Texture is everything. Undoubtedly, a sound pertaining to hot weather. ☀️ Recording by @melissapons.bsky.social earth.fm/recordings/c...

open.substack.com/pub/wewillbe... @planetcritical.bsky.social

Saturday, July 26th at silent green in Berlin, a presentation of my quadraphonic piece, ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS.

Today I've uploaded this one and three others to @earth-fm.bsky.social These are some of the summer sounds here in the fields of the Montado, an unique and fragile ecosystem - unfortunately declining - in Alentejo, Portugal. Listen if you like crickets and cicadas! 🦗 earth.fm/recordings/e...

Currently I'm listening through and editing recordings of some temperate grassland, on unmanaged land. The summers here are brutal. The swathes of hot winds at times remind of ocean waves at the shore, others of enveloping clouds of sand particles. The earth speaks.

We're in Barcelona, where the Catalan Government recently announced they will expand the airport. NOW is the moment for us to show the people of Barcelona we are with them. That we are an international movement against airport expansion: actionnetwork.org/forms/no-to-...

What does the wind say? earth.fm/recordings/c...

Encounters soundcloud.com/melissapons/...

This is insanely awesome! Put your headphones on. A few from my home, down the list.

Have you ever heard dragonflies? earth.fm/recordings/h...

In a public sphere where opinion is king, The Treeline is bold narrative journalism at its best, a reminder that we don’t tell enough stories about the reality of our changing climate & what all this will mean for humans everywhere. Must-read 📖 earth.fm/earth-storie... @benrawlence.bsky.social 🙏🏽

Climate change on sound field recordings. earth.fm/recordings/d...

What is trending this week at Earth.fm? Hint: 🐸 @thmkly.bsky.social @nickjourjine.bsky.social @georgevlad.bsky.social

Read and share, donate if you can! gofund.me/f5d780cd

@xeno-canto.bsky.social keeps getting better! xeno-canto.org/collection/s...

Tremendously beautiful recording from Enis Çakar. An elusive animal revealed through the mesmerizing acoustics of the canyon in Aladağlar, Turkey. @eniscakar.bsky.social‬ earth.fm/recordings/e...

proletarian cultures and their relationship to strategy audiopervert.substack.com/p/culture-an...

So, is reaper 7 worth purchasing a license?

Get to know Phil Mill's work with wolves in Poland and all the ethical questions needed to be raised. Plus - a playlist with wolves sounds! earth.fm/recording-ex...

Finding out about this now. Many thanks for listening and careful review! @nilsmosh.bsky.social

Great underwater #bioacoustics clip by David de la Haye, showing how you can use an AudioMoth USB Microphone to connect a hydrophone to your phone for good quality underwater audio recordings www.youtube.com/watch?v=URX1...

I am not feeling very proud of admitting this, but money is tight at the moment. luxuryelite.bandcamp.com I know some of you have expressed desire in buying albums and wish I would make things not straight up Free Download, so if you'd like to buy an album, I'll leave it up as NYP for a few days. xo

How interesting that so many of us have their staple soundscape and sound signature references from films and tv shows way more than from their everyday lives.

I always have so much fun doing this! Thank you, Nahun @nahunoise.bsky.social 👂