Thanks, Dan. Actually, I was a co-author of the article. Helped
Pijanowski understand the soundscape concept having worked w/ his
graduate colleagues at Michigan State Univ. when I introduced the
Sequoia biophonic test model 10 years ago for the NPS along with
Stuart Gage...then head of MSU's Envirosonics project and who was the
first serious academic to embrace the idea with working field studies.
Gage was also a co-author. (Gage is now emeritus at MSU, but still
active in the soundscape community). Lately, I've been working with
one of Pijanowski's grad students at Purdue, (Brian Napoletano, also a
co-author of the paper) serving as a professor on his graduate
committee.
The idea of the biophony as a word and concept was first identified in
my book, "Into A Wild Sanctuary," Heyday Books, 1998.
When brought up at a NPS bioacoustic meeting in Boulder in 2005, I was
informed by the head scientist in the program that "biophony" would
not be acceptable because one could not introduce a new word to
science or the lexicon. I was quick to suggest proctology...initiating
a few choked giggles in the group.
Bernie
On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Dan Dugan wrote:
> (cross-posted to naturerecordists, bayareasoundecology,
> nature_sounds_society)
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> He uses Bernie's terminology!
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> -Dan
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> http://www.smartplanet.com/people/blog/pure-genius/what-the-science-of-sound-tells-us-about-the-world/5660/
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> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause.
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