Walking Festival of Sound: "Infrasound and the Planetary Imaginary / Brian House"

Although it cannot be heard by humans, infrasound permeates the atmosphere. Because the air absorbs it far less readily than ordinary sound, these extremely low frequencies can travel vast distances, originating hundreds or even thousands of miles away. If humans were capable of perceiving frequencies below 20 Hz, planetary processes, such as shifting ocean currents, wildfires, turbines, receding glaciers, industrial HVAC systems and superstorms,...