Wild Resonance

Welcome to Wild Resonance, a podcast exploring bioacoustics and the sounds of the natural world. In this fifth episode, host Stephen Griesgraber talks with Dr. Eduardo Mercado III about his book "Why Whales Sing." Published in November 2025, the book challenges the current understanding of whale songs. Broadly believed to be an aural "peacock tail" and courtship strategy, Eduar...

Welcome to Wild Resonance, a new web series exploring bioacoustics and the sounds of the natural world.  In this fourth episode, host Stephen Griesgraber talks with researcher and sound artist Willow Gatewood about their work. They talk about a variety of topics; improvising with biosonified plants, the nuances of how communication occurs between insects and plants, and how we might use AI to coll...

Welcome to Wild Resonance, a podcast exploring bioacoustics and the sounds of the natural world. In this third episode, host Stephen Griesgraber talks with photographer and sound artist Hunter Skowron about his series of LPs, released under the name FM Forest. Through photography, musical improvisation, and creative writing, Hunter chronicles the subtle micro-seasonal transitions that he's fo...

In this second episode of Wild Resonance, host Stephen Griesgraber talks with musician, writer, philosopher, and educator David Rothenberg about why animals vocalize, what constitutes music, and where to hear the wild squeaks of the Death's Head Hawk Moth.  Rothenberg has released ten full albums under his own name and has performed on countless others. He is known for his inter-species perfo...

Welcome to Wild Resonance, a new podcast exploring the sounds of the natural world.  In this inaugural episode, host Stephen Griesgraber interviews Dr. Mason Youngblood, a post doctoral fellow at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Dr. Youngblood is a specialist in the house finch, a species native to the western part of the United States and Mexico that now thrives throughout North Ame...