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"Welcome to the final installment of Hearing the UnHeard, Sounding Out!'s series on what we don't hear and how this unheard world affects us. The series started out with my post on hearing, large and small, continued with a piece by China Blue on the sounds of catastrophic impacts, and Milton Garcés' piece on the infrasonic world of volcanoes. To cap it all off, we introduce The Sounds of Science by professor, cellist and interactive media expert, Margaret Schedel."

"I love talking about field recording, as you can gather from reading my blog or following me on social media. I'm deeply passionate about all aspects of the discipline and I also love to inspire others to pursue it. Something I haven't talked much about is the editing and mastering side, probably because it isn't as glamorous as teetering on the edge of a volcano or being chased by an orangutan in the rainforest. It may also be because I do my best to escape the studio whenever I can, and this would mean more time spent indoors. At any rate, with this blog post I'm trying to fix that."

"Consider this piece of history: On the morning of Aug. 27, 1883, ranchers on a sheep camp outside Alice Springs, Australia, heard a sound like two shots from a rifle. At that very moment, the Indonesian volcanic island of Krakatoa was blowing itself to bits 2,233 miles away. Scientists think this is probably the loudest sound humans have ever accurately measured. Not only are there records of people hearing the sound of Krakatoa thousands of miles away, there is also physical evidence that the sound of the volcano's explosion traveled all the way around the globe multiple times."

"Volcanic Drift presents the subteranean sounds of Yellowstone's super caldera, lathed into vinyl records, and played back through a pair of custom built subwoofers. Because a portion of this audio extends below the range of human hearing (the infrasonic), these recordings are felt as well as heard. To prevent the records from skipping, the turntable is mounted on a vibration dampening seismically stabalized pedestal designed to absorbe the architectural resonance."