The Engineer Creating A Virtual World Using Natural Sound

This year, quarantine forced us indoors, and many have been cut off from nature at a time when they need it most. On a remote island off the coast of Maine, artist Xin Liu uses thousands of microphones to record and broadcast the sound of the natural landscape to listeners around the world.

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[ShujathHussain]

a link to their audio collection would be nice!

[FatRonaldo]

As a sound engineer myself, I found this to be extremely interesting. Sound is beautiful!

[Bosephmcbeanertonson]

Couldn’t tell whether this was an ad or a video . Had me interested until the commercial mid video lmao smh please don’t do this vice

[lazylion]

a little self indulgent for a car commercial lol

[michaelmccarthy]

Translation:
When reporter and advertiser can work as one....
That is harmony or perfection

[ArvindSidhu]

Nature is a beautiful thing. It's incredible the wonders of even a walk a day can do for a person

[loganqueenan]

It seems like art is evolving again into this engineering area of art where they try to make immersive walkthrough real life experiences, which seems like the natural way to go about art because as we improve technology, we can improve how immersive art is

[kevinpantoja]

When is youtube gonna block these bots saying first and shi*

[Vizible]

One day everything will remain as memories. We will lose our mother nature and all it's beauty and we will be left in a hidden dark room only with recorded sound and images just to feel human again.

[christianhoppenjans]

this is a wonderful video! but i really wish you showed us how or where to listen to Xin’s wonderful soundscapes. please

[Pearldeep]

Please COVER INDIAN FARMER’s PROTEST! They need your help and attention of the masses!

[aaronserrano]

reminds me of the villain in power rangers. those are the vibes. 1:19

[sucemaindex]

Everyone complaining about the fact its a commercial like the focus isn't on something cooler

[jayrmelvin]

Me: Puts up cheap mics in backyard and records them so i can be on a Vice special too, Please DM for booking dates.

[lukasschallibaum]

So they just put a microphone in the forest? I wasted 7 minutes of my life

[adhdpenguin]

Oof all these car ads. Guess they need the funding. I wish vice was better funded. They have a lot of interesting stories. Much better than mainstream media

[muhammadpatel]

Genesis went from Great Big Story to VICE
Sad

[tomoflis]

Crappy homemade mic and recording wind and waves and streaming this to ppl..never thought of that lol, i guess there are people out there willing to pay for this lol

[Houlgravely]

Become part of something bigger than yourself....then fork over 60k for a Genesis or something.

[CrunchyCaptainn]

Fifth 😎😎 but also I really loved this I wish I actually did engineering though it was extremely difficult 😞