Walt said :
> Good recordings are about the best we can do to change that.
Excuse-me Walt, but i can't completly agree with you.
So many amazing recordings already exists, published by a few persons,
such as Wild Sanctuary or Sittelle just to name them. More good
recordings are not the best we can do. In my opinion, more important is
the connexion, the interaction we may produce with these recordings.
I would say that we need publications (the books like Bernie's one and
the other from David Dunn are very effective), but also we should invent
some kind of way of communicating our interest into nature sounds :
public listening situations (such as the Bernard Fort's birds concerts
in parks of cities), presentation (i was completly convinced by
ornithologist Fernand Deroussen's public soundwalks in some experimental
music festival...), scientific & ecologist (better both at the same
time...) conferences, sound-art related projects (from Knud Viktor to
Bill Fontana), personal websites, interventions in urban context (for
the new mayors : please organize micro =E9cological natural reserves in
cities...), informations trading between specialists and also public
discussions with non-specialists. and even, computer or electronic
related experiences (animal sounds interactions, simulations or
stimulations), can help to change this lack of awareness you were
talking about.
I am not trying to say that nature recording is unuseful (if it was the
case i would not have subscribed this group), but if it is supposed to
change something, it needs probably some interfaces with people, no ?
just my 2 euro's cents opinion...
friendly,
yannick (whose english is probably not very elegant...)
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