The ancient Greek philosophers considered there to be five elements of which the earth around us and beyond us is comprised. These are Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and Ether.

Technology has enabled us to create devices which allow the observation and manipulation of these elements. The resulting auditory investigation of the Earth’s phenomena is chronicled here: the sounds that they produce and the resulting musical instruments or artistic concepts that have emerged from these sounds.

Earth

Auditory Seismology

Using time-compression to accelerate the vibrational waves of global seismic activity, Florian Dombois makes landscape events audible to human ears. (via thisrecording)