Sound Ledger¹

Audio culture by the numbers

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

1: Number of No. 1 songs from 2010 to 2020 that changed keys

18%: Percent of noise-polluted marine parks in Australia estimated as exposed to unsafe shipping traffic

14%: Percent rise since last year in noise complaints at the second largest airport in the Netherlands

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¹Footnotes

Key: [npr.org](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139232684/why-the-key-change-has-disappeared-from-top-charting-tunes) (the exception was Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode,” featuring Drake). Australia: [cosmosmagazine.com](https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/whales-ship-traffic/). Netherlands: [eindhovennews.com](https://eindhovennews.com/news/2022/11/more-complaints-about-noise-pollution-eindhoven-airport/).

Freq Out

An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

I have to remind myself that “Radio Frequency Environment Area” isn’t a welcome mat, because it sure sounds like where I wanna hang out. (Coalinga, California, November 2022)

Scratch Pad: Live Coding, Andor, etc.

From the past week

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

I do this manually each Saturday, usually in the morning over coffee: collating most of the little comments I’ve made on social media during the preceding week. I tend to think of social media — Twitter especially, though I’m taking a break, and Facebook to a degree, and increasingly [Mastodon](https://post.lurk.org/@disquiet) — as my public scratch pad. It’s informative to revisit a week of thinking out loud in public. Also, knowing you’ll revisit what you say pulls in the reins a bit, in a good way.

▰ I’m now getting advertisements for “digital stethoscopes.”

▰ Anyone checking out post.news? I’m [@disquiet](https://post.news/disquiet) over there, too.

▰ Oh this *Andor* marching band (season 1, episode 12) is so great. Star Wars second line.

▰ Far as I can tell, [post.news](https://post.news/disquiet) doesn’t do #hashtags, though I may be mistaken. If it does/did, my main ones (would) definitely include #ambient #FieldRecordings #SoundStudies #soundscapes #ExperimentalMusic.

▰ I keep an eye on my Wikipedia Watchlist for various key #SoundStudies terms. You can see as edits occur in real time. This correction popped up on Monday. I love the concept of “erroneous space” in the context of the World Soundscape Project.

▰ Via Alex McLean: *Live Coding: A User’s Manual* is online for free as epub, pdf and mobi downloads:

[https://livecodingbook.toplap.org/#read-the-book](https://livecodingbook.toplap.org/#read-the-book)