Great job on the new design, Bernie.
John Hartog
rockscallop.org
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> Today, we've officially launched our new web site, one completely dedicat=
ed to the field of soundscape ecology: http://www.wildsanctuary.com
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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. But=
the most resonant of is the WildStore which contains the heart of our mess=
age -- representative recordings from sites covering much of the planet 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, biop=
honies from the Arctic (Martyn Stewart, Kevin Colver, and me), to the Antar=
ctic (Doug Quin), to the Amazon (David Monacchi), to the American Southwest=
desert (Jack Hines), to the American Northeast (Ruth Happel), also example=
s of Borneo, Sumatra, New Zealand, Fiji, and the Galapagos, among others, c=
an 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 the observation that a=
bout half of the recordings in my archive and album collection are from hab=
itats so compromised by human endeavor, that the biophonies can no longer b=
e heard in any recognizable form.
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> Other sections include music related to or inspired by natural soundscape=
s such as "Meridian," an album of soundscapes and music (by former Peter Ga=
briel keyboardist and Wyndham Hill artist, Phil Aaberg) following spring 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 w=
orld experience like the Nez Perce, Ba'Aka, and Yup'ik eskimos; A Children'=
s title; and a new Special Collection segment that features species-specifi=
c birds from the American West (Kevin Colver).
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> As for my bioacoustic work, my first field recordings were made in 1968 u=
sing a Nagra IVs and Schoeps XY systems, and were incorporated as component=
s of orchestration for a synthesizer music album my late music partner, Pau=
l Beaver, and I were doing for Warner Brothers, a title called "In a Wild S=
anctuary," 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 W=
yoming, We also beta-tested the Sony DAT recorders in the mid-1980s switchi=
ng to MS (Sennheiser) and transitional digital formats (DAT) in the latter =
half of that decade. By January, 2002, I was experimenting with double MS s=
ystems at Gray Lodge Wildlife Refuge (N. of Sacramento).
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> This one's for you. And we are thrilled to be part of this ever-expanding=
community.
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> Ciao,
> Bernie Krause
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> 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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