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One Month of Sounds

This is what one month of sound looks like...recorded during the summer of 2023, deep in Yellowstone National Park's Blacktail Plateau, where the world is still more wild than tame. Not notes on a page, but lines of light and shadow, a spectrogram that gives shape to what the ears alone might miss. To those who know how to read it, it is a kind of writing—one that tells who spoke, who sang, who called out in the dark.

Each row marks a day, stretching from midnight to midnight. The birds begin early. Each morning, they sing. As the days grow shorter, their songs come later. You can see it shift, little by little, to the right. And if you press play, you’ll hear them—along with the chorus howl of a Yellowstone wolf pack, a voice rising from the land itself. The small blue bar moves ever so slightly across the screen, tracing sound into time, into memory.

Jeffrey Reed has turned this into something more than data—he has made it into art. His prints bring these sounds to life, color and rhythm pressed into acrylic, a frozen moment of Yellowstone’s song.

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3' x 4' (portrait or landscape)

Acrylic or Brushed Aluminum

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Jeffrey Reed is a technologist fluent in a language few dare to learn—the voices of the wild. A computational linguist and software engineer turned conservationist, he’s decoding the secrets of animal communication, from wolf howls to chickadee alarms, using AI-driven technology built deep in the mountains of Montana...his birthplace. His latest venture Grizzly Systems (grizcam.com) is reimagining how to protect and promote the world's last wild places. Jeff started the Cry Wolf Project, a large-scale bioacoustics study in the Greater Yellowstone area. Active in conservation, he works to protect wild soundscapes and share them with others. He is finishing a book on wolf communication, due out in 2026. Contact Jeff at jeff@reedfly.com.

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Minute 10:06 discusses the "one month" spectrogram

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