Wonderful sentiment, Don. And a terrific book. Congrats to you and
all you've contributed to this field.
Bernie Krause
>Dear GentleNatureRecordists:
> Seems I'm a better listener than talker. I regularly read the
>digests, trying to learn what I can, and there's so much to learn now that
>I'm trying to record with more aesthetics in mind (rather than just trying
>to document sounds from a scientist's perspective). With your collective
>comments about the Audubon article and my book, I feel I need to "come out"
>and say HI.
> Rich (Peet)--Hey, I'll swap you a paper clip parabola sight for
>one of those fancy windscreens (but white?). Rich, you're my idol. A quote
>from page 126 of Don Stap's book, Birdsong (Scribner's, March 2005): among
>the recordists in the Cornell workshop " . . . there were several gasps
>when Rich said he had quit his job a few weeks earlier so he could record
>birds through the birdsong season." During the summer of 2003, I biked with
>my son across the country from Virginia to Oregon (4500 miles, 10 weeks),
>listening to birds all the way (and recording with Sennheiser ME66 short
>shotgun and Sony MZ-N707 minidisc). Within a few months after returning I
>retired from academics to pursue the listening full time. But, unlike Rich,
>I didn't promise my wife I'd get another job after the recording season was
>over, as the recording season is now forever. She understands.
> Lang (Elliott--is there another?)--thanks for the kind words about
>my book. I hope that in it I have managed to capture a little bit of the
>passion and joy and wonder each of us feels when we slip those headphones
>on and listen to our natural world. It's worth trying to tell as many
>people as we can about these creatures we love so.
> The future? Being able to think about birdsong full time is an
>extraordinary gift. I'm retracing the TransAm bike route (with my paper
>clip) to get higher quality recordings, recording this summer from the
>Mississippi River to the Pacific, I hope. Thanks to help from our friend in
>Georgia (thanks, Walt), I hope to be trying some SASS-type soundscape
>recordings. But mostly I love my stereo Telinga (thanks, Klas), to be
>augmented by a Lang-designed setup with a pair of MKH20's in a Telinga
>parabola (thanks, Lang).
> And thanks, Doug, for moderating such a fine group.
> OK. Far more words than I usually can muster. I'll go back to
>listening . . .
>Best regards . . . Don Kroodsma
>Don Kroodsma
>36 Kettle Pond Rd
>Amherst MA 01002
>phone: 413-253-5519
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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