Hi Scott,
The line is of course fuzzy. A nature sound recording can have
non-natural sounds as long as they do not dominate the recording.
Flocks of domestic sheep or goats would fall under livestock
recordings I think.
- John Hartog
> John, where do you draw the line between natural & non-natural? Among =
> my favorite field recordings are a series of tapes of a flock of
> sheep I recorded in an alpine meadow east of Cedar Breaks in southern =
> Utah. Wonderful stuff, & except for one passby of a pickup truck,
> without human sonic imprint. Except for the fact that the sheep were
> bred, raised, corralled, & transported to the meadow by humans
> specifically for human consumption. So are these sheep calling back & =
> forth to their kids natural or not, inasmuch as their very existence
> is a result of human activity? Does the question even matter? And do
> I even bring up a recording I made in Bavaria of a flock of goats
> with bells around their necks? All the sonic activity is generated by =
> the goats, but humans have fitted them with bells. So is this a
> nature recording?
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> Scott Fraser
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