Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world



Bernie Krause has been recording wild soundscapes — the wind in the trees, the chirping of birds, the subtle sounds of insect larvae — for 45 years. In that time, he has seen many environments radically altered by humans, sometimes even by practices thought to be environmentally safe. A surprising look at what we can learn through nature’s symphonies, from the grunting of a sea anemone to the sad calls of a beaver in mourning.

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  2. The guy puts a natural ‘hip’ in hop. Might as well call him Bernie KRS-1 … representing Beaver Down Productions! ‘BDP, peace and unity!’

    Catching the thunder since the 1970s – quite literally a Grandmaster Flash. He was writing (Kool-as-G) ‘wrap’ instrumentals in 1988
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8MxMIzhyaU&list=PL2SllIS4bWEwsrF-_Eo532iFnp3MBZ7zh&index=1
    and his Jungle Shoes preceded the genre of UK jungle music by at least 3 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuJZR52Yw2M&list=PL2SllIS4bWEwsrF-_Eo532iFnp3MBZ7zh&index=2
    Word.

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  3. I've only just today discovered that your work even exists. But I can already see the enormous value of this. I think what you are doing is not only wonderful – but vital, for our understanding of human impact upon the environment. Please. Keep up the good work.

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  4. I cried for the first time today after my father died in 2003. The sentence: "Fully 50% of my archive comes from habitats so radically altered that they are either altogether silent or could no longer be heard in any of their original form" moved me to tears!

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  5. When I was a kid, a family of deer walked in front of the car in our neighborhood so we stopped. The deer walked by except for one baby. A sports car speeded through 30 miles over the speed limit and flipped the baby in the air! It landed and broke all 4 of it's knees. It tried to run on it's knees but it couldn't. We called the police who "took care of it"-whatever that means… During the impact, the mother deer made a sound ten times more sad than that beaver… That was the only time in my life I heard a deer make a noise… and it was a scream…

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