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Re: Dispelling yet another myth

Subject: Re: Dispelling yet another myth
From: "rapsac" cstroem
Date: Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:51 am ((PDT))
...and let's not forget the boreal forest (which is currently being
clearcut at increasingly rapid rates
https://drive.google.com/file/d/152115cxN8hlYNw38w_Me2ofgU5hPj2FD/view).

Caspar

On 2018-04-11 23:14, Bernie Krause 
[naturerecordists] wrote:
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>
>
> We=92ve begun working with the EU environmental team in conjunction with=

> the WWF to explore biophonies in the remaining old growth forest of
> Europe. Jack Hines and Tom Hull have been recording in the Carpathian
> Mtns over this past week, checking out the first of these sites. Just
> today, Jack sent an amazing sample of what was recorded there. In a
> note, he reported: =93We recorded two hours straight without a single
> over flight or other anthropophonic sound.=94
>
> In 2006, Peter Cusack from the UK, recorded at Chernobyl in the
> Ukraine (E. Europe) and captured some truly remarkable and lovely
> soundscapes from a recovering habitat once thought to be completely
> compromised (from the nuclear meltdown that occurred in 1986). And
> there are many other fine examples coming from so many other great
> recordists.
>
> So, contrary to the myth perpetuated by some that there=92s no place
> quiet enough or active enough to record in Europe, here=92s a list of
> those who have actually done that for the past 4 or 5 decades and who
> have turned out some really credible examples of lovely biophonies to
> be check out in various media and forms.
>
> Peter Cusack
> Walter Tilgner
> Martyn Stewart
> Jean Roch=E9
> Nadia Pieretti
> Jack Hines
> Tom Hull
> Chris Watson
> Volker=A0Widmann
> David Monacchi
>
> While it may=A0be more difficult in the US, where some have suggested
> that there are only a dozen or so places, there are actually a dozen
> places to record without overflights and road traffic within a 90
> minute drive where this note is being written in Sonoma County,
> California.
>
> Just for the official record=85
>
> Bernie Krause
>
> Wild Sanctuary
> POB 536
> Glen Ellen, CA 95442
> 707-327-6771
> http://www.wildsanctuary.com
> 
> SKYPE: WildSanctuary
> FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/BernieKrauseAuthor
> TED Global talk:
> https://www.ted.com/talks/bernie_krause_the_voice_of_the_natural_world?la=
nguage=3Den
>
>> On Mar 27, 2018, at 1:42 AM, Jaffa Vanam 
>> <> [naturerecordists]
>> <
>> <>> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>> i am looking for quality insect sounds, it is for my art project in
>> near future.
>> Could anyone please direct/and or share, where i could find some good
>> recordings ?
>>
>> kind regards,
>> Rafal
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Forest Of Forgotten Words
>> https://soundcloud.com/rj077
>> https://www.facebook.com/aRFsound/
>>
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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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