Investigating sounds desperately

I’m having trouble deciding my good for all playlist to listen to when i feel like shit. So i thought, why the fuck not learn about sounds in general, instead of getting irritated by lyrics and storytelling in songs, i could analyze how the music sounds like. How pleasant it could be.

So, in nature, natural sounds are any sounds produced by non-human organisms as well as those generated by natural, non-biological sources within their normal soundscapes. It is a category whose definition is open for discussion. Natural sounds create an acoustic space.

The definition of the soundscape can be broken down into three components: the geophony, non-biological natural sounds that include the effects of water by a stream or waves at the ocean, the effects of wind in the trees or grasses, and sound generated by the earth, itself, for example, glaciers, avalanches and earthquakes; the biophony, all the non-human, non-domestic sounds that emanate from a relatively undisturbed habitat; and anthrophony, all sound generated by human endeavor, whether music, theatre, or electromechanical.

In the same sense bioacoustics is a cross-disciplinary science that combines biology and acoustics. Usually it refers to the investigation of sound production, dispersion and reception in animals (including humans). This involves neurophysiological and anatomical basis of sound production and detection, and relation of acoustic signals to the medium they disperse through. The findings provide clues about the evolution of acoustic mechanisms, and from that, the evolution of animals that employ them.

In underwater acoustics and fisheries acoustics the term is also used to mean the effect of plants and animals on sound propagated underwater, usually in reference to the use of sonar technology for biomass estimation. The study of substrate-borne vibrations used by animals is considered by some a distinct field called biotremology.

Sounds in nature can evoke instruments through mimicry and inherent musical qualities. While not instruments themselves, natural sounds exhibit melodic, percussive, or tonal characteristics that are organized by nature.

Now in music composition, animal noises can be imitated with basic orchestral instruments, as goes the list:

Birds (generally) - woodwinds either trilling or as in the case of several 19th century composers the actual notes of the birdsong written out for flutes or oboes or clarinets depending how close the timbre of the instrument is to the bird being imitated. Notable example: Beethoven: Symphony 6 2nd movement
Horses galloping - empty coconut shells or orchestral claves (wooden blocks)
Seagulls - high screeching notes on clarinet as in Carl Nielsen: Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Isles
Bees - strings - notable example Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Cranes - high slow notes on clarinet as in Sibelius: scene with cranes from Swanwhite
Elephant - double basses as in Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
Swan - Cor Anglais as in Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela. Note; Cor Anglais is also handy for imitating ducks and geese
Cats - violins - as in Paulo Bottas: Cat Serenade
Kangaroos - Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
Tortoises - Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
chickens - Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals and Moussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition - dance of the unhatched chicks; combined instruments
Whales could be imitated by Tubas

And those are all meaningless curiosities on the matter for the non-observant ear. It is comforting to know sounds and it’s resemblance in music or nature, for when I have nothing to listen on youtube, I can just go outside and hear. I don’t know, maybe it is a primal wish of mine to know how humans remembered music before instruments were ever a thing. It was voice, humming, birds singing, the clap of hands, the feet marching, it was a rhyme, a prayer, a story being sung from passing travelers. Even before we learned language, in pre historical times, how mimicking repetitive and alluring sounds might have meant something. That is what I want to find, a playlist to remember from something before my own existence.