A stormy sea produces full-spectrum white noise that is not articulated into waves

Evidence

The primal chaos of Okeanos is well served by the sound of a stormy sea. When the sea is worked into anger, it possesses equal energy across the entire audible spectrum; it is full-frequencied white noise. Yet the spectrum always seems to be changing; for a moment deep vibrations predominate, then high whistling effects, though neither is ever really absent, and all that changes is their relative intensity. … It is only in a boat that wave motion becomes audible, for the bulkheads groan and shudder violently as the ship rolls and pitches. (By this means I once timed the waves at between 6 and 11 seconds in a gale on the Pacific.) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 574

Categorization

• SEED: A concrete recording/reporting technique: timing wave periods acoustically from a boat’s groaning bulkheads — practical field method for the reader.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 574
• XREF: connects to: A soundscape is composed of audible events rather than visible objects — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 28; All environments offer audible repeating pulses across time scales — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 277

Broader Connections

• A soundscape is composed of audible events rather than visible objects #exemplifies (0.70) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 28
• All environments offer audible repeating pulses across time scales #complicates (0.60) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 277