With the lockdown, many natural sounds are becoming audible again, especially in urban environments. Listening to these sounds, as eco-acousticians do, allows us to access valuable ecological data in a sensitive way. Portrait of a growing discipline.
How is research done, how are hypotheses formulated? How are theories invented? How is knowledge preserved? How are works exhibited? The Life of Ideas wishes, in the form of podcasts, to give a voice to the players in intellectual and cultural life. From the laboratory to the workshop, from the library to the stage, The Life of Ideas starts listening.
Jerome Sweat is an eco-acoustician and lecturer at the National Museum of Natural History. He is a member of the Ecoacoustics Research Project (EAR) and collection manager for the Sonothèque, a scientific project whose objective is to document the sounds of living things in order to better understand and manage biodiversity.
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