The future of spider sounds
These findings echo work
assembled by Oxford University back in 2014, where they found that a spider’s innate sense of pitch allows it to engage in the sophisticated tuning of its web.
“The spider can actually pluck or bounce the silk strings, and it can monitor the echoes that come back so it can locate objects,” revealed lecturer Beth Mortimer at the time.
Exciting communication implications have arisen from both studies - it might be possible for spiders to create their own note sequences to contact with other spiders. It could even give humans a pathway into understanding the highly intelligent arachnids better by speaking in their own language.
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Listen to the music of a spider s web. Tell me what do you hear?
Reuters | Apr 15, 2021 12:51 AM EDT
Dewdrops gather on a spider as it rests on its web in the early morning in Lalitpur, Nepal (Photo : REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo)
It is an eerie, foreboding, reverberating tune, enough to send a tingle down your spine.
This is what a spiderweb sounds like.
From communication to construction, spiderwebs may offer an orchestra of information, says Markus Buehler, engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has been using artificial intelligence to study them.
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Scientists from the American Chemical Society have converted a spider’s web into audio. The process, which involved imaging and analysing a three-dimensional spider web, led to a curious piece of music which has been already played on a ‘harp-like instrument’ in several live performances. The project s principal investigator, Markus Buehler, a professor of engineering at MIT, capitalised upon a personal interest in music to extend the research beyond the scientific world: Webs could be a new source for musical inspiration that is very different from the usual human experience.
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Scientists have shared what a spiderweb sounds like using Artificial Intelligence.
Markus Buehler, an engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, alongside his team, recently created 3D models of spiderwebs to study spiders vibrations their way of communicating while undertaking tasks in the web such as construction, repair, hunting and feeding.
“Spiders utilize vibrations as a way to communicate with the environment, with other spiders,” Buehler said. “We have recorded these vibrations from spiders and used artificial intelligence to learn these vibrational patterns and associate them with certain actions, basically learning the spider’s language.”
The spider signals are low, long chimes, which become more complex as the web becomes more dense. Spider signals are usually completely inaudible to human ears.