The "Big Star" dune. This is an immense dune located in the north of Oman, very close to the borders of the United Arab Emirates.
I recorded it with my accelerometer, burying it in the sand. But the sound you can hear here was evoked when I was actually sliding down the dune - like on the picture below, where you see me sliding and pushing sand.
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This is a recording of a dune near Al Ashkharah, a small fisher town by the Arabian Sea in the south of Oman. Here I managed to record a "spontaneous boom", a sound that actually happened without me sliding or pushing. That day, the wind was very strong and I had buried my accelerometer underneath the sand. What you can hear here (resembling white noise) is the sound of millions of loose sand grains that are moving across the hard sandy surface, then after a couple of seconds the spontaneous boom can be heard.
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December 2008This is it how it sounds when you move down the dune while pushing and kicking as much sand as possible. I recorded this with an acoustical microphone strapped around my body. I reallized that the dune was like an instrument that I could play.
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Call to prayer. Muttrah, Oman at 5 am.