Exercise 2: Noise to you, signal to someone else

Goal: To question what humans filter out as "noise" and consider what might be meaningful to another species.

Instructions

Play a short field recording or natural sound (from xeno-canto or Nature Sound Map).

Ask:

What do you hear as irrelevant, repetitive, or background?
Now imagine an entity for whom this is vital information. What does it hear?

📎 Uses: Sound archive + imagination