Recordings of the wild natural and in particular, the biophonies and
geophonies, comprise, to me, the collective voice of the natural
world. Any way in which these precious constituents can be presented
effectively and comprehensively through community outreach programs,
book/CD combos, public space installations, art projects, science
projects, walks in the woods with folks who know how to listen and
convey the craft to others, electronic and/or digital media, is what
needs to be done to capture the (moral) imagination of those longing
for new revelations about life beyond the anthropocentric.
While I'm not at all optimistic about the outcome, I am hopeful that
the aural light will continue to shine. It's certainly my link to
sanity and may (if the Harvard research project with which I'm
presently engaged) prove to be a similar link to others.
All best,
Bernie Krause
>Walt said :
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> > Good recordings are about the best we can do to change that.
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>Excuse-me Walt, but i can't completly agree with you.
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>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 ?
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>just my 2 euro's cents opinion...
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>friendly,
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>yannick (whose english is probably not very elegant...)
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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