Research completed at Austin’s Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve may help answer one big sound-related question of those early days of the pandemic: Why did the birds seem louder? | MoseBuchele
About two years ago, things seemed to go silent. Coronavirus had arrived in Austin and the city was entering its most stringent “stay-at-home” mandate of the pandemic. It was frightening and surreal, but for people who research sound, it was also a chance to study what happens when humankind takes a break.
Darren Proppe, the Wild Basin’s research director, said he got the idea to take recordings in the early days of the pandemic while standing on a hill and staring at the highway. He was “shocked” to see the highway was empty. Classified as an essential employee, Proppe was initially the only one allowed to work on the project. But once some restrictions lifted in 2021, Saint Edward’s student researcher Ederé Ohwobete also started taking recordings. Twice a week, she would visit the same spots Proppe visited a year earlier to gather tape of the world as it began opening back up again.
That is to say the noises one heard at the height of lockdown were more diverse in pitch, frequency and occurrence, a lot like birdsong. These are sounds that can act like a fog obscuring other higher pitched, less constant and fainter noises like birdsong.
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