Distant wind can be heard across intervening stillness without being felt

Evidence

The wind is an element that grasps the ears forcefully. The sensation is tactile as well as aural. How curious and almost supernatural it is to hear the wind in the distance without feeling it, as one does on a calm day in the Swiss Alps, where the faint, soft whistling of the wind over a glacier miles away can be heard across the intervening stillness of the valleys. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 79

Categorization

• QUESTION: An acoustic phenomenon worth investigating further — what propagation conditions allow a distant wind sound to cross still valleys?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 79
• XREF: connects to: Slow walking meditation attunes awareness to the present environment — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 430; Even nature exhibits are made without nature sounds — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1366; In near-total silence a person may hear the mechanics of their own body — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 578 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• In near-total silence a person may hear the mechanics of their own body #expands (0.55) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 578
• Headphone listening reveals sounds ordinarily outside awareness #expands (0.30) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 279