Professor's acoustic research repurposed into relaxing listening sessions for all

Paine, a professor of digital sound and interactive media in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at ASU, created the bioacoustic recorders in the Limelight devices to analyze species density.

Now, Paine’s recordings of life in the rainforest are available to the entire community at free listening sessions on the Tempe campus. The one-hour Wellness Dome sessions are held in the ASU ambisonic dome, a metal framework with 45 speakers that creates an immersive audio experience in Stauffer Hall B.

The event is a project of the Acoustic Ecology Lab in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering, which Paine co-directs with Sabine Feisst, a professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre.