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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Watch the movie Earthlings
I dunno when I hear soundscapes like this I am reminded of werner herzog and his thoughts on nature and the jungle…..not as nice a thing to think about how many of those sounds are actual murder happening.
Que tristeza
Bernie Krause, un homme qui écoute et enregistre la nature et qui est fort intéressant à écouter…
Wow , this is amazing work , blows my mind
This is spellbinding
Thank you
wow.
love your work!!
We tend to be so visual as a species but sound is a much more profound experience so yes we need more of this way of communicating about the real world (as opposed to man-made) of which we are all part .
何年も前にNHKでこの回を見たけど、未だにこのビーバーの泣き声が耳から離れない
Our ancestors already knew this, why everything is alive. The Creator speaks through in everything. Ty for sharing the story of the Amish (beaver)- Why we say all my relations. Miig wetch
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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.
amazing, thanks so much, I will follow since now
Brilliant
Quien viene aquí por una tarea de música?
Thank you so much for your excellent work on natural sounds .This is our story, and se are killing it .
Amazing video.
Thank you. Do you remember the day the music died? We do. Help us help us.
Thank you Bernie! I read your book some years ago. Today I cried with Papa Beaver. Thank you for sharing your inbaluable perspective.
Замечательный человек!
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.
I have goosebumps all over . Thank you Bernie for sharing.
Importance of soundscape over landscape
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!
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…
a strong argument for humans to listen more. Try Silence people!
That was wow.
Хроническая тугоухость – это диагноз.. впрочем, как и хронический эгоизм.. Chronic deafness is a diagnosis .. however, like chronic egoism ..
There are a bunch of websites online with databases of audio bird calls. Here's one: http://www.birdweb.org/birdweb/audiosource
I remember hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Massachusetts. Hiking for hours in the natural quiet. Then hearing a quail out of nowhere. Sound was piercing, powerful, incredible…
We need more such "nature" ted talks.
This is my favorite Ted talk ever.