sTs

burrow down


science or not?

this project was born out of the emerging field of soil ecoacoustics
it proposes that frequency diversity corresponds to soil biodiversity

however
the perceived sound diversity in this website 
is not a scientific comparison 
it would require a quantitative analysis
with many replicates  
taken from randomly allocated coordinates

these are thought to be
the movements and voices
of the life underneath
a symphony by ecosystem engineers

silence suggests a lack of life
whether it is due to the season, 
clogged structure or a toxic environment





there is no way to see the soil
the almost purely solid ecosystem
so we might try to connect through hearing