The song of the dunes

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  • Опубликовано: 26 окт 2008
  • 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.
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  • @squidsquiddly5970
    @squidsquiddly5970 7 лет назад +1198

    Ah the tubas of time... Could you imagine getting lost out there and dehydrated with a sad farty sound every step

  • @TarunoNafs
    @TarunoNafs 2 года назад +307

    I can imagine if there's a strong wind sweeping over the sand, one can hear the sand dunes YELL.

    • @FarceeTheFire
      @FarceeTheFire 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@gamerzone0764Thank you so much omg

  • @xboxcrusher
    @xboxcrusher 4 года назад +489

    I came here after hearing about the "ghosts of the desert" in Marco Polo's book, this is truly fascinating to watch.

    • @nikitakrim02
      @nikitakrim02 4 года назад +13

      Blue

    • @xboxcrusher
      @xboxcrusher 4 года назад +5

      @@nikitakrim02 Yup, he and Red always introduce me the most interesting things. :D

    • @pngpeng7424
      @pngpeng7424 4 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/YkJCHZO8PxY/видео.html

    • @JeramieCurtice
      @JeramieCurtice 3 года назад

      Same here.

    • @akkoismydaughter3573
      @akkoismydaughter3573 2 года назад

      I came here after watching a video about the biography of Marco Polo

  • @maxmazza2987
    @maxmazza2987 4 года назад +88

    Here from OSP. Didn't realize this is what Marco Polo was talking about in his work when he claimed there were "ghosts" in the desert until today. Fascinating stuff.

    • @andrewlagno9482
      @andrewlagno9482 4 года назад +2

      I think he means when the wind shifts huge amounts of sand

  • @smkirk29
    @smkirk29 5 лет назад +167

    I feel like I'm being pranked

    • @Queen_Raven_
      @Queen_Raven_ 4 года назад +10

      Its actually real. Science will explain it, I found a video explaining it. I've been there before and found some booming sand dunes. I named a dune Julio.😂

    • @Ahmed-cy7bf
      @Ahmed-cy7bf 4 года назад +4

      I swear to God man. I gotta check this myself to believe it 😂

    • @smkirk29
      @smkirk29 4 года назад +3

      @@Ahmed-cy7bf I saw another video explaining that some beaches here in Australia squeak too and that it's to do with the uniformity of the granuals. And wet sand doesn't do it apparently

    • @r.m.3430
      @r.m.3430 3 года назад +3

      i can confirm the squeak sound from beaches in australia, i was fascinated but compared to that dune sound - this is way more impressive.

  • @brickboiler
    @brickboiler 9 лет назад +238

    STOP! You are going to attract a sandworm!

    • @mmaattoouu
      @mmaattoouu 8 лет назад +19

      +brickboiler He's doing it without a rythm so he's safe for now

    • @yoymate6316
      @yoymate6316 6 лет назад

      Relax. Mongolia’s too far away from where he is.

    • @distranthegloriouslydeform9259
      @distranthegloriouslydeform9259 5 лет назад +14

      Bless The Maker and His Water, Bless the Coming and Going of Him.

    • @supercalo79
      @supercalo79 5 лет назад +15

      Step....drag....drag.....step.....step.....wait....drag....step

    • @walterclements8905
      @walterclements8905 4 года назад +1

      brickboiler
      Bro u need to walk without Rhythm

  • @theScarletLetter86
    @theScarletLetter86 10 лет назад +55

    You know what eerie is that in an little as a days time there with no sign that they were there at all. The winds will wipe the slate clean. You could go insane without a proper way to guide yourself out of there.

  • @jakobschultz1663
    @jakobschultz1663 2 года назад +98

    Wow, I've just seen the behind the scenes of the SFX of Dune and this is amazing!

  • @mikedicewrites
    @mikedicewrites 4 года назад +65

    12 Years later and this is still pretty dope.

  • @boinghd
    @boinghd 12 лет назад +58

    Wow... It's like nature's record scratch. It's been worn down to such a fine grain. This is awesomee

  • @Kiwi_Tea
    @Kiwi_Tea 7 лет назад +25

    Sounded a lot like flatulence most of the time, but then, at the end when he slid down the dune....my god that was beautiful, and so loud it went almost to my bones.

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore 2 года назад +25

    That's some pretty dry sand! I've also experienced something similar to this in Dunes Park Florida. When you run on the sand on a particularly dry day the sand will "chirp." I can only describe it like dragging a pencil eraser on a table and getting the pencil to vibrate from it.

    • @loop5720
      @loop5720 2 года назад

      They're the satisfying type of sand, and knowingly sand is already satisfying to begin with.

  • @TLSf553
    @TLSf553 10 лет назад +150

    Darude - Sandstorm

    • @Tempusverum
      @Tempusverum 8 лет назад +3

      +TheLittleSimon The Original and Best version.

  • @RegebroRepairs
    @RegebroRepairs 3 года назад +30

    I wrote a song in 2001, called Desert Lullaby, where I have the lyrics "the dunes they sing for you". Little did I know. :-)

  • @internetdinosaur8810
    @internetdinosaur8810 2 года назад +18

    I came here after watching "The Sounds of Dune" for the movie Dune. Incredible!

    • @borogove
      @borogove 2 года назад +3

      I thought all you did was dashing birds and cacti? Happy to hear you also have some time for recreation left.

  • @benjaminwebb5759
    @benjaminwebb5759 5 лет назад +17

    This is 1 thing I want hear before I die, a beautiful symphony from mother earth,

  • @prince-solomon
    @prince-solomon 5 лет назад +31

    Man this is so crazy yet real... nature is awesome...frightening and awesome

  • @meadow_maker
    @meadow_maker 9 лет назад +50

    How does this not have more views?

    • @mandokir
      @mandokir 9 лет назад +1

      Joslyn Sarshad Because it's fake.

    • @Tempusverum
      @Tempusverum 8 лет назад +10

      +Joslyn Sarshad Not too many people know about it, apparently. I came here only after reading Marco Polo's account of it. The Europeans didn't believe him at the time, either!

    • @user-gf3re4gv2d
      @user-gf3re4gv2d 6 лет назад +2

      Joslyn Sarshad this is real watch another video similar to this ruclips.net/video/WCrwPMwOcCw/видео.html

  • @debbiehenri7170
    @debbiehenri7170 3 года назад +5

    I'd heard of this a couple of years back - but surprised just how 'haunting' the sound is when he slides or sets off an avalanche.

  • @garfiduper5822
    @garfiduper5822 9 лет назад +30

    That is so darude.

  • @anderson34ism
    @anderson34ism 2 года назад +1

    I came here after watching 2021 dune film. This is just awesome !!!

  • @HyeKari
    @HyeKari 11 лет назад +13

    That sands seems sooo soft! It's more like powder than sand. I'd love to touch such soft sand. Here I only know the rough one xD

    • @MegaBoilermaker
      @MegaBoilermaker 5 лет назад +8

      Following a sandstorm, "hollows" between Dunes can fill with powdered sand as fine as Talc. This can be very dangerous as I knew a couple of Americans that actually "drowned" in such a powdered sandpit .

    • @aylayzrianne
      @aylayzrianne Год назад

      i heard that it can get so fine it can get into your lungs and be dangerous for your health

  • @nvmskullworks4794
    @nvmskullworks4794 3 года назад +9

    I really hope Denis Villeneuve watches this and incorporates it in the Dune film...

    • @LacoSinfonia
      @LacoSinfonia 2 года назад +11

      And here I am a year later because Villeneuve referenced this video in a behind the scenes feature about Dune’s sound design

  • @jameshansen1148
    @jameshansen1148 2 месяца назад

    Wonderful video, was surprised when it was finished and before I left I checked the date - 15 years ago!
    I hope this soft-spoken person is doing well wherever they are

  • @hahaha9076
    @hahaha9076 6 месяцев назад +1

    Best example of how this works on here. 15yrs ago.

  • @mrheisenburg3758
    @mrheisenburg3758 5 лет назад +13

    here because of marco polo biography

  • @babycakes9551
    @babycakes9551 7 лет назад +8

    That looks like so much fun!

  • @jaked1549
    @jaked1549 8 лет назад +8

    These dunes are now on my bucket list. (pun intended.)

  • @toc1955
    @toc1955 7 лет назад +8

    Absolutely amazing!!

  • @tomhubbard8510
    @tomhubbard8510 Год назад +2

    They need to use this sound in the Dune films when they need some ominous backing backing music.

  • @isoinic4575
    @isoinic4575 3 месяца назад

    Just read about it on wikipedia and had to hear it. Amazing, thanks for the video, great introduction and presentation

  • @oBseSsIoNPC
    @oBseSsIoNPC Год назад +1

    What the heck. I never heard of this before! How odd and wonderful at the same time

  • @bettifield
    @bettifield 3 года назад +2

    Last move made the best sound 😆

  • @macaskillmegavalanche6271
    @macaskillmegavalanche6271 9 лет назад +7

    Beautifull sound

  • @angieangel135
    @angieangel135 14 лет назад +1

    Beautiful.

  • @johnschroeder548
    @johnschroeder548 Месяц назад

    fantastical thank you

  • @kevinmatrischitz3050
    @kevinmatrischitz3050 2 года назад

    Amazing! The Sound of Dune sent me here and it was totally worth it to follow that lead.

  • @Shadowguy456234
    @Shadowguy456234 5 лет назад +4

    Welp, congrats on the trippiest video I've ever seen

  • @swatijha7054
    @swatijha7054 3 года назад +1

    Thousand splendid suns brought me here 😂❤️

  • @ghostern3020
    @ghostern3020 6 лет назад +1

    I watched this about a year ago in school and I’m so glad I found this…

  • @T.J
    @T.J Год назад

    Géniale petite vidéo, je ne m’attendais pas à ça ! Merci !

  • @SjoeperdKnoepert
    @SjoeperdKnoepert Год назад +1

    I can imagine the desert wanting to speak (or sing) to us after being so 'deserted' for so long. Yes pun intended. Amd thanks for the video I am thinking of sampling this and using it in a song.

  • @lukegreen5696
    @lukegreen5696 3 года назад +11

    3:15 Als hätte Benjamin Blümchen seine Antidepressiva vergessen :D

  • @steltzsm
    @steltzsm 4 года назад +1

    Beautiful video.

  • @urusaiyatsu
    @urusaiyatsu 13 лет назад +2

    The sand is so fine it looks liquid-ish.

  • @bekzhanshamshat9457
    @bekzhanshamshat9457 6 лет назад +19

    1:51

  • @cmessett11
    @cmessett11 4 года назад

    Something new for the bucket list. I could sit out there and do that for hours...or until i got dehydrated!

  • @UnWorthyDaisy42
    @UnWorthyDaisy42 Год назад +1

    it's almost like crunching snow

  • @unitymomentum
    @unitymomentum Год назад

    Beautiful and so interesting

  • @RatRaceAce
    @RatRaceAce 14 лет назад +2

    Nice video, and nice research on the phenomenon.

  • @theweirdshow2860
    @theweirdshow2860 2 года назад +1

    wow, that's incredible!, it's like a really big instrument that you can walk on lol.

  • @sundarswami7211
    @sundarswami7211 3 года назад

    That's fantastic 👍

  • @myopicthunder
    @myopicthunder 10 лет назад +1

    amazing

  • @patriziaantuofermo5182
    @patriziaantuofermo5182 3 года назад

    A strange and amazing sound!!

  • @NightShadowReal
    @NightShadowReal 11 лет назад +10

    the sand is so fine. there must be some sort of health hazard

  • @kappabravomusic2101
    @kappabravomusic2101 11 месяцев назад

    That sand is squeaky clean!

  • @truthseeker6869
    @truthseeker6869 Год назад

    Really we’ll explained! Merci beaucoup!

  • @SamuelPGM
    @SamuelPGM 2 года назад

    this is awesome

  • @henrijs1733
    @henrijs1733 Год назад

    that's amazing

  • @el6139
    @el6139 2 года назад

    Sublime!

  • @yehezqielrivaldoonazi7244
    @yehezqielrivaldoonazi7244 4 года назад +3

    3:20 it's like the sportcar sound!😁🏎️

  • @LeoJody34
    @LeoJody34 12 лет назад +1

    omg this looks like sooooooo much fun! I love it, I wanna go to Morroco now just to try this! :)

  • @marcp5099
    @marcp5099 2 года назад

    magical

  • @ericpreston5826
    @ericpreston5826 2 года назад

    This is amazing. I love the look on the guys face when he looks into the camera at 1:49 . Looks like he's saying "yea, you try to explain this shit."

  • @megadata5790
    @megadata5790 2 года назад

    12 yrs later,my english teacher recommend me to watch ..

  • @cristianolivari
    @cristianolivari 4 года назад

    that's incredible.

  • @patrickcross1571
    @patrickcross1571 3 года назад +2

    It almost sounds like some creature is lurking under the sands, and the noise is it 'purring' as it's being pet by the puny human on top of it.

    • @hhone748
      @hhone748 3 года назад

      lol that almost sounds cute

  • @whithercanada
    @whithercanada 14 лет назад +1

    fascinating, but it makes my skin crawl

  • @sparklem500
    @sparklem500 Год назад

    What a strange and beautiful sound! Thanks God for created our Mother Earth that continuously surprises us! 🙏🏻❤️

  • @solangeholme7995
    @solangeholme7995 4 года назад +3

    Canções das Dunas...
    Neste vídeo Stéphane Douady mostra-nos a canção das dunas (em Marrocos). Diferentes sons são produzidos através do movimento das areias ao serem deslocadas com a mão, o pé ou em avalanche.

  • @daviddulac1911
    @daviddulac1911 4 года назад +1

    the souls of dead moan with their fleeting breath as they are stepped on

  • @bibelhuhn
    @bibelhuhn 5 лет назад +1

    Crazy... 💓

  • @juleyse2431
    @juleyse2431 2 года назад

    I was just looking for the new "Dunes" movie's soundtrack but I am happy I ended up here XD I wonder why I cannot do the same at the beach though...

  • @ricardualan
    @ricardualan 2 года назад +4

    i came for the dune movie

  • @mini03984
    @mini03984 8 лет назад +1

    I thought when he was going up the hill he was stepping on an old man. I DIED.

  • @gillesheil55
    @gillesheil55 2 месяца назад

    Superbe

  • @lilinguhongo2621
    @lilinguhongo2621 3 года назад

    weird... dope... fascinating...

  • @blakespower
    @blakespower 2 года назад

    I came here after I was on the Great Basin website in the Nevada Desert it has singing sand also I guess anyplace with huge sand dunes can make the sound

  • @_UNISTAR_
    @_UNISTAR_ 2 года назад

    Came here from Dune.
    What an interesting little phenomenon.

  • @jonhilderbrand4615
    @jonhilderbrand4615 2 года назад

    "All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name.” Selah. Psalm 66:4

  • @LeizyDaHusky
    @LeizyDaHusky 2 года назад

    It's not a prank lol. The sounds were produced by collisions between grains of sand that caused the motions of the grains to become synchronized, causing the outer layer of a dune to vibrate like the cone of a loudspeaker, producing sound.

  • @nawdawg4300
    @nawdawg4300 9 месяцев назад

    This is amazing. It's hard to believe it's real!

  • @ohmsanti7914
    @ohmsanti7914 2 года назад +1

    I discovered this phenomenon naked on pot brownies and made sound with my whole body rolling down dunes. What a day!

  • @sandsings
    @sandsings 8 лет назад +85

    Darude - sandstorm
    sorry.

  • @tinaselka8155
    @tinaselka8155 4 года назад

    A big wish from me ...the singing Sand Dunes 😍

  • @ThunderWorkStudioAMGE
    @ThunderWorkStudioAMGE 8 лет назад +46

    sounds a bit like a tuba

  • @justingreen2432
    @justingreen2432 3 месяца назад

    When he used three fingers......the dune really liked that. 😂

  • @MardyAss
    @MardyAss 4 года назад +7

    almost sounds like the camera guy is moaning into a microphone every time that guy touches the sand

  • @ubentu
    @ubentu 11 лет назад +2

    It's real, and I love being there.

  • @lukasdias9766
    @lukasdias9766 2 года назад +3

    He is calling the Shai-Hulud

  • @zanecosgrove4820
    @zanecosgrove4820 4 года назад

    You get this at the beach here in Australia... while amazing, I've seen this plenty of times before. It's just the sound of silica sand moving

  • @hOurworld11
    @hOurworld11 Год назад

    What comes to mind...you heard those loud noises that no one knows where its coming from or what it is?
    Just makes you think about The Trumpets.

  • @beejyt
    @beejyt 10 лет назад +7

    there are beaches in Wollongong that do this

  • @braydenhancock3907
    @braydenhancock3907 Год назад

    So it’s kinda like how a beach “squeaks” but on a large scale with smooth sand

  • @MiuFiuStudio
    @MiuFiuStudio Год назад

    So many ppl here because they read about the sound from the Marco Polo book… me too! I want to play in this sand so bad looks so amazing!

  • @tiegerkater582
    @tiegerkater582 8 лет назад

    It is only the sand skibbling against itself, like when windscreen wipers skibble when they are dry.

  • @velesoid
    @velesoid 4 года назад +2

    Sounds like a swarm of pissed off hornets

  • @ImSandiHuang
    @ImSandiHuang 7 лет назад +19

    Sound like Farting sands to me.

  • @kentinjivek
    @kentinjivek 2 года назад

    C’est impressionnant…fabuleux…je cherche s’il y a une variation de fréquence avec le désert en Namibie

  • @anotheridiotoninternet6635
    @anotheridiotoninternet6635 3 года назад +1

    What do play?
    Me: Desert