Bernie your site is fantastic, I am really enjoying the recordings and
information.
Jim Morgan
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Bernie Krause <>wro=
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> Today, we've officially launched our new web site, one completely
> dedicated to the field of soundscape ecology: http://www.wildsanctuary.co=
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> The site, composed, orchestrated and conducted by my dear wife, Kat, and
> executed by a wonderful community of magicians, contains many sections. B=
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> the most resonant of is the WildStore which contains the heart of our
> message -- representative recordings from sites covering much of the plan=
et
> and an arc of time that spans 45 years in the field.
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> In the Soundscape section, for instance, and aside from my own work,
> biophonies from the Arctic (Martyn Stewart, Kevin Colver, and me), to the
> Antarctic (Doug Quin), to the Amazon (David Monacchi), to the American
> Southwest desert (Jack Hines), to the American Northeast (Ruth Happel),
> also examples of Borneo, Sumatra, New Zealand, Fiji, and the Galapagos,
> among others, can be found. Especially remarkable for its lyricism and
> quality is a brand new and rare recording by Volker Widmann titled "Dawn =
in
> the Black Forest." This is truly a masterpiece. No less astonishing is th=
e
> observation that about half of the recordings in my archive and album
> collection are from habitats so compromised by human endeavor, that the
> biophonies can no longer be heard in any recognizable form.
>
> Other sections include music related to or inspired by natural soundscape=
s
> such as "Meridian," an album of soundscapes and music (by former Peter
> Gabriel keyboardist and Wyndham Hill artist, Phil Aaberg) following sprin=
g
> as it moved north 16 miles (30km) a day along the 111 meridian; Native
> Voices, a collection of music and stories from groups closely linked to
> natural world experience like the Nez Perce, Ba'Aka, and Yup'ik eskimos; =
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> Children's title; and a new Special Collection segment that features
> species-specific birds from the American West (Kevin Colver).
>
> As for my bioacoustic work, my first field recordings were made in 1968
> using a Nagra IVs and Schoeps XY systems, and were incorporated as
> components of orchestration for a synthesizer music album my late music
> partner, Paul Beaver, and I were doing for Warner Brothers, a title calle=
d
> "In a Wild Sanctuary," the first music composition to express the theme o=
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> ecology. In 1981, the same year I earned my PhD with an internship in
> bioacoustics, I did my first digital recording using a Sony beta version
> called the F1 in Wyoming, We also beta-tested the Sony DAT recorders in t=
he
> mid-1980s switching to MS (Sennheiser) and transitional digital formats
> (DAT) in the latter half of that decade. By January, 2002, I was
> experimenting with double MS systems at Gray Lodge Wildlife Refuge (N. of
> Sacramento).
>
> This one's for you. And we are thrilled to be part of this ever-expanding
> community.
>
> Ciao,
> Bernie Krause
>
> Wild Sanctuary
> POB 536
> Glen Ellen, CA 95442
> 707-996-6677
> http://www.wildsanctuary.com
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> SKYPE: biophony
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