ecology

An Excerpt from Listening After Nature by Mark Peter Wright

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Listening-with Humans and Nonhumans Auditioning a field recording, and assembling its meaning, is a similar yet very different process to making a jigsaw. As a child, I tried to complete a jigsaw puzzle without the crutch of the image guide. It was a process that oscillated between hope and despair. Hope at the freedom to … Read more

Listening for baselines beyond anthropophony: An interview with Bernie Krause

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by D. Ferrett World-renowned soundscape ecologist and sound designer Bernie Krause discusses his field recording methods and ecological perspectives as developed over decades of recording wild soundscapes in this interview with D Ferrett. D: During your career you have worked as a musician, a recording engineer and producer and, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, … Read more