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Earthworms eating

Rue de la Poste 5, 1435 Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium

A 5-minute field recording by Vincent Duseigne made in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium on 1 June 2016, in the evening. Soundscape: contact-mic recordings and mountains.

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Earthworms eating
4:30CC BY 3.0by Vincent DuseigneInternet Archive
4:30
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Recordist's notes

On the all-animals-eating collection, this strange recording is about earthworms. These are earthworms eating. There's normally no noise or quite nothing with earthworm, but I was completely atracted to disclose their secret life. So, to succeed, I made a strategy. I buried two adjoined contact microphones in a very packed mold. Around the microphones, I disposed a layer of coffee ground, as I know earthworm love wet and cold coffee ground. It was a trap and a gift to them, in aim to attract them near the microphones. I deposited three nervous earthworm on the summit of a jam jar. I let them dig in the mold. They immediatly plunged near the coffee and eat it. It makes this extremely strange sound. On this recording, I made no alteration, but in fact I really can't explain why it makes these kind of noises. Perhaps ground small collapses and crushing is a kind of important thing in a earthworm existence.

Written by Vincent Duseigne on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Louvain-la-Neuve is a town of about 29,521 people in Wallonia, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 351 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Contact microphones. Piezo pickups that record vibrations in solid materials instead of airborne sound.

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