A Day of the World

A summer day on the Aegean, in a pine wood near the shore: eight parts from the dawn chorus to the cicadas, the sea breeze, the crickets, the frogs and the nightingale. In the Guided Journey the day flows without a break. Procedurally synthesised, not recorded; there is no claim of any effect.

Why this order? The order is the day itself. The first stage is morning: from the last sounds of the night to the dawn chorus, and on to the day as the chorus thins out and the sea comes closer. The second stage is heat: the cicadas join the chorus, the sea breeze blows as the land warms, and towards evening the breeze dies down and the birds return. The third stage is night: crickets and frogs, the nightingale and owls, and at the end the first sound of dawn. Each part is 5.5 minutes long and ends with the same sound the next one begins with; the transitions move slowly from the 40th to the 240th second.

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Stop 01/08 · I Morning

Dawn

6 minEvidence level S: Soundscape, no claim

From the end of the night to the dawn chorus.

Parts

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Sources

The explanations in the parts rest on these sources; they make no claim of any effect. The citations were checked against Crossref, PubMed or the publisher's record.

The start time of dawn song and eye size.
Thomas RJ, Széskely T, Cuthill IC, Harper DGC, Newson SE, Frayling TD, Wallis PD. Eye size in birds and the timing of song at dawn. Proc R Soc B. 2002;269(1493):831-837. doi:10.1098/rspb.2001.1941 PMID 11958715
The sea breeze.
Miller STK, Keim BD, Talbot RW, Mao H. Sea breeze: Structure, forecasting, and impacts. Rev Geophys. 2003;41(3). doi:10.1029/2003RG000124
The nocturnal song of the nightingale.
Amrhein V, Korner P, Naguib M. Nocturnal and diurnal singing activity in the nightingale: correlations with mating status and breeding cycle. Anim Behav. 2002;64(6):939-944. doi:10.1006/anbe.2002.1974
Sound propagation and refraction outdoors.
Embleton TFW. Tutorial on sound propagation outdoors. J Acoust Soc Am. 1996;100(1):31-48. doi:10.1121/1.415879