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Re: Wild Sanctuary website

Subject: Re: Wild Sanctuary website
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:29 pm ((PST))
Thank, Jim. It's been a very special joy to have had the chance to do this =
work.

Bernie

On Jan 24, 2013, at 4:19 PM, Jim Morgan <> wrote:

> 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 <>w=
rote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> Today, we've officially launched our new web site, one completely
>> dedicated to the field of soundscape ecology: http://www.wildsanctuary.c=
om
>>
>> The site, composed, orchestrated and conducted by my dear wife, Kat, and
>> executed by a wonderful community of magicians, contains many sections. =
But
>> the most resonant of is the WildStore which contains the heart of our
>> message -- representative recordings from sites covering much of the pla=
net
>> and an arc of time that spans 45 years in the field.
>>
>> In the Soundscape section, for instance, and aside from my own work,
>> biophonies from the Arctic (Martyn Stewart, Kevin Colver, and me), to th=
e
>> 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 t=
he
>> 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 soundscap=
es
>> such as "Meridian," an album of soundscapes and music (by former Peter
>> Gabriel keyboardist and Wyndham Hill artist, Phil Aaberg) following spri=
ng
>> 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;=
 A
>> 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 call=
ed
>> "In a Wild Sanctuary," the first music composition to express the theme =
of
>> 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 =
the
>> 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. o=
f
>> Sacramento).
>>
>> This one's for you. And we are thrilled to be part of this ever-expandin=
g
>> community.
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Bernie Krause
>>
>> Wild Sanctuary
>> POB 536
>> Glen Ellen, CA 95442
>> 707-996-6677
>> http://www.wildsanctuary.com
>> 
>> SKYPE: biophony
>> FaceBook:
>> http://www.facebook.com/TheGreatAnimalOrchestra
>> http://www.facebook.com/BernieKrauseAuthor
>> Twitter:
>> http://www.twitter.com/berniekrause
>> YouTube:
>> https://www.youtube.com/BernieKrauseTV
>>
>>
>>
>>
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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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Wild Sanctuary
POB 536
Glen Ellen, CA 95442
707-996-6677
http://www.wildsanctuary.com

SKYPE: biophony
FaceBook:
http://www.facebook.com/TheGreatAnimalOrchestra
http://www.facebook.com/BernieKrauseAuthor
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