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1a. Re: Dispelling yet another myth
From: kev.
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1a. Re: Dispelling yet another myth
Posted by: "kev." weaveofkev
Date: Sat Apr 21, 2018 7:16 am ((PDT))
Thank you Bernie. I'm more than pleased to know I live fairly close to a
couple of your suggestions.
Best,
Kevin Durr
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 2:26 AM, Bernie Krause
[naturerecordists] <> wrote:
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> Sure. In the panhandle of New Mexico, I and a colleague recorded for two
> weeks with one single engine (prop) flyover in and around the Animus
> Mountains at a former Nature Conservancy site then called Gray Ranch. At a
> 3500 acre site in the Anderson Valley (Sonoma), an undeveloped secondary
> growth forested habitat owned and run by Sonoma State Univ., called
> Galbreath Reserve, I’ve recorded for several hours without flyovers or road
> traffic noise. In west Marin and parts of western Sonoma, there are some
> old growth stands of various kinds of forest, also pretty quiet. The
> Trinity Mtns in Northern California are often decent early in the morning
> as are several sites east of Red Bluff in Ishi country SSW of Mt Rainier
> (but those are large private ranches that require premission for access).
> Then there’s Alaska with many such sites. A few miles to the NNE of
> Jackson, Wyoming, in the shadow of Jackson’s airport flight paths, there’s
> a place called Spread Creek Pond where we’ve recorded dawn choruses since
> 1981 without much interference.
>
> So, yes. There are lots of places and times. One way to minimize and
> mitigate the obvious problem would be to look at a flight path chart to see
> where the most (and least) actiivity lies. Then, just do your best to avoid
> it and take your chances.
>
> BK
>
> Wild Sanctuary
> 781 5th Street East
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=781+5th+Street+East+Sonoma,+CA+95476+707&entry=gmail&source=g>
> Sonoma, CA 95476
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=781+5th+Street+East+Sonoma,+CA+95476+707&entry=gmail&source=g>
> 707
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=781+5th+Street+East+Sonoma,+CA+95476+707&entry=gmail&source=g>
> -327-6771
> http://www.wildsanctuary.com
>
> SKYPE: WildSanctuary
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> TED Global talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/bernie_krause_the_voice_of_
> the_natural_world?language=en
>
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> On Apr 20, 2018, at 5:02 PM, 'kev.'
> [naturerecordists] <> wrote:
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> Bernie.You've suggested Sugarloaf Ridge State Park in which I have visited
> and recorded so many beautiful sounds before the Santa Rosa fire. Do you
> happen to have another suggestion on an area without overflights? The
> overflights have been a huge problem for me over the last 4 months. It has
> prevented me from completing 2 important sound libraries which are on hold
> due to this.
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 2:14 PM, Bernie Krause
> [naturerecordists] <> wrote:
>
>>
>> We’ve 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:
>> “We
>> recorded two hours straight without a single over flight or other
>> anthropophonic sound.”
>>
>> 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’s no place quiet
>> enough or active enough to record in Europe, here’s 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 Roché
>> Nadia Pieretti
>> Jack Hines
>> Tom Hull
>> Chris Watson
>> Volker Widmann
>> David Monacchi
>>
>> While it may be 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…
>>
>> Bernie Krause
>>
>> Wild Sanctuary
>> POB 536
>> Glen Ellen, CA 95442
>> 707-327-6771
>> http://www.wildsanctuary.com <http://www..wildsanctuary.com/>
>>
>> SKYPE: WildSanctuary
>> FaceBook: http://www..facebook.com/BernieKrauseAuthor
>> <http://www.facebook.com/BernieKrauseAuthor>
>> TED Global talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/bernie_krause_the_voice_of_t
>> he_natural_world?language=en
>>
>> 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
>>
>> --
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>>
>> Forest Of Forgotten Words
>> https://soundcloud.com/rj077
>> https://www.facebook.com/aRFsound/
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> --
> “Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered
> bathtub?”
> ?D Norton Juster <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/214.Norton_Juster>,
>
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“Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered
bathtub?”
?D Norton Juster <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/214.Norton_Juster>,
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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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