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RE: Bare witness

Subject: RE: Bare witness
From: Wild Sanctuary <>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:51:29 -0700
All we need to do, Martyn, is consider the issue "the pre-amp of 
environmental spirituality and awareness." Then it fits.

Bernie

>The amount of work I do as an environmentalist takes up half of my time, I
>love this planet more than my fellow man, I love the animals, plants and the
>very thing that keeps me alive. I detest man to the hilt when it comes to
>management of this earth, in fact, if I became terminally ill, I would
>personally go out and shoot as many hunters as I could muster up, I could go
>on forever but as acting moderator, I have been asked in the past to keep
>this group on the track of nature recording, I usually think that topics
>like this fizzle out and then we start talking about bloody attract and
>pre-amps. But sometimes, you can see the friction between certain postings
>then you have to step in and take away the ball :)
>
>Talking of recording in soundscapes, how about this?
><<<http://stream.realimpact.net/?file=realimpact/hsus/seal-hunt/rebecca3-29-
>pac kage-hunt.rm>>>>
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>This disgusts me to the hilt.........
>
>Let's not fall out gentlemen :)
>
>Martyn
>
>Martyn Stewart
>Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
>http://www.naturesound.org
>
>N47.65543   W121.98428
>Redmond. Washington. USA
>Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
>
>425-898-0462
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: 
> On Behalf Of Wild Sanctuary
>Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 11:40 AM
>To: 
>Subject: [Nature Recordists] Bare witness
>
>Silence on advocacy issues that preserves habitat so these lovely
>sounds can be heard is antithetical to everything each of us is
>trying to do.
>
>It's very much to the point and needs to be embraced at every level
>and opportunity. No one should be muzzled on the issue or restrained
>from making their feelings, impressions, and/or observations known
>within this group or any other, for that matter, particularly where
>the comments are pro-active and helpful.
>
>Speak up if you feel that what's happening to the natural soundscape
>is a major issue! Keep silent if you feel that things are just
>hunky-dorey. Your choice. Meanwhile, keep collecting those sounds
>while there's still a chirp or growl left on this earth.
>
>When I first began recording in 1968, fully 45% of our old growth
>forests were left standing in N. America. As of this writing, less
>than 2% remains. My archive consists of over 3500 hrs of soundscape
>material collected from around the world. Over 35% of my N. American
>collection comes from habitats where the soundscape is so compromised
>as to be unrecognizable. That's in 37 years, folks!  Let's all be
>real quiet about this, eh?
>
>Bernie Krause
>
>>Walt, that is not what I took as limited by Martyn at all.
>>Use and Venue of recordings has always been a valid topic of
>>discussion within this group.
>>
>>If my use of recorded natural sounds is part of an "environmentalist
>>capaign", that is a valid topic of discussion here. Further, if I wish
>>to encourage or promote the use of natural sounds for "environmental
>>capaigns" that too is a valid topic.
>>
>>I will just assume you are wrong unless I am corrected.
>>Rich
>>
>>--- In  Walter Knapp <>
>>wrote:
>>>   From: "Martyn Stewart" <>
>>>
>>>   >
>>>   > As much as this is very close to my heart, I think we should quit this
>>>   > thread, you know me, I could talk about this forever but I think
>>this is the
>>>   > wrong place to do so.
>>>
>>>   So ordered, and I agree, environmentalist campaigns are
>>inappropriate here.
>>>
>>>   Walt
>>>   
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>"Microphones are not ears,
>>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>>A listening room is not nature."
>>Klas Strandberg
>>Yahoo! Groups Links
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>--
>Wild Sanctuary
>P. O. Box 536
>Glen Ellen, CA 95442
>t. 707-996-6677
>f. 707-996-0280
>http://www.wildsanctuary.com
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
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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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-- 
Wild Sanctuary
P. O. Box 536
Glen Ellen, CA 95442
t. 707-996-6677
f. 707-996-0280
http://www.wildsanctuary.com


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