> I browsed the Tarkine National Coalition web site you linked to as I list=
ened, and one of the threats listed was off road vehicles. I sometimes wond=
er if recordings intended to alert people to threats like that should conta=
in some unexpected jarring recordings of such vehicles.
>
> Peter Shute
Hi folks,
Unfortunately, one person's environmental destruction is another's PROGRESS=
& PROFIT! It amazes me, but as I think Eric is getting at, and we all prob=
ably know, we humans have an extraordinary ability to interpret white as bl=
ack, and visa versa.
I could have included vehicle or logging noise, but I don't think it would =
prove anything. And besides, off-road vehicle noise is the least of the Tar=
kine's current threats.
So we've made this recording to allow the living voices of the Tarkine to s=
peak for themselves, without trying to manipulate the listener's response. =
Make of it, feel from it, whatever you will. If nature has anything to say =
to us, I believe it will say it below the level of the intellect anyway.
There is also the fact that many listeners will respond to us as recordists=
and why we've made the recording, as to the recording itself. So our work =
communicates the way we experience the Tarkine, as much as the place.
In practice, I don't believe our recording will convince anyone to change t=
heir mind. But what it may do is alert people who already care, remind them=
of why they care, and spur some further action.
Best wishes to you all,
Andrew
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Andrew Skeoch & Sarah Koschak
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P.O. Box 188
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Victoria 3450
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sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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