The Song of the Sand

As we get closer and closer to D-Day, I get more and more excited! While listerning to Sting’s Desert Rose and America’s Horse with No Name (repeatedly) I came across this video-clip on the “song of the sands” This is a noise made byt he sand shearing when you disturb it, by walking, touching or otherwise moving the sand. Absolutely amazing! Have a quick look, there’s a translation from the original French!

The song of the dunes introduced by Stéphane Douady. Since Marco Polo this strange sounds that can be heard in some deserts fanscinates. Here Stéphane Douady shows the different sounds that can be made, as soon as this singing sand it is sheared, with the hand, the feet, or in avalanches. Recorded on a singing dune in Morocco. A movie from Etienne Chaillou and Mathias Thery.