Sure thing. If we mount a hydrophone, we can record the creek’s spectral patterns and let a machine interpret the vibrations as data. That way, even the ghostly song gets translated into something we can analyze.

Machines can pick up the gaps too, as long as we program them to look for the absence of signal. With proper thresholds and a bit of pattern‑recognition, they’ll mark the pauses and even start interpreting what the silence might mean. The trick is to treat silence as data, not noise.