What is it like to be a goat

The video associated with this sound is available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rAJCxS4yuo

This project works on the possibility of using binaural recording techniques on animals, in particular, on a domestic goat. With microphones placed inside its ears and with a small video camera mounted on his head, we obtain an audiovisual material that enables one to have an approximate idea about how an animal perceives the world. Based on a study of comparative cognition, we aim to find ways of transforming the obtained recordings in order to adapt the human and the animal psychoacoustic frame. The goal is that a person can hear as does an animal, even if this happens only in an approximate way.

Binaural recording on a young female anglonubian goat in a city farm of The Hague. The audio was recorded with a homemade binaural mic connected to a zoom h1 recorder. The audio has been transformed (slowed down and equalised) in order to get some of the auditory features that goats have, for instance hearing ultrasound.

Video made with a sportcamera SJCAM 5000+ mounted on her head.