Play the sound! In a swamp or wet forest, it is best to move on tree trunks that have been laid on the ground by age or wind. Or bitten off by beavers.
There’s nothing like being outside with an early morning coffee,
watching the golden sun just hitting the trees,
listening to the sounds of nature waking up.
#Fire is still burning steadily & provided some beautiful ambient light & warmth - for our food shares gathering. We enjoyed a tasty fresh fish chowder, several different salads, baked treats, homemade crackers & dip, fruits, cold cuts & artisan breads.
I know, I have my wonderful and famous Micro-Macro-Amplifyer for #podcasting but my research for the interview with a #cactus and a #bat is a rabbit hole. I found out that my adventure needs tough people. Men seem to be quite crybabies when they have to interview a cactus (CW: video with male crybabies): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJzTse9Dsaw They need "multitools"! 🤣
I promise you, I won't be such a howler. I'll listen to the cactus. 😂
Silencing biodiversity
Biophony is the collective sound produced by all living organisms that reside in a particular biome. It is not about a 'decontextualized single-species recording model'. Bernie Krause is recording "the “Great Animal Orchestra,” a constantly shapeshifting constellation of individual voices in motion, and he termed their symphonic soundscape a ‘biophony’ — all of the “sounds originating from nonhuman, nondomestic biological sources.”
In 1988 he recorded the so-called selective logging of a timber company:
"The outcome was a spectrogram with a remarkable density throughout all frequency bands, as could be expected for a habitat replete with the most diverse animal life. In 1989, he returned to the meadow after the operation had been completed for a second session under the exact same conditions and at the exact same time. In keeping with what had been promised by the logging company, the place still looked as though it was teeming with life — “I was delighted to see that little seemed to have changed,” as Krause remarked. Back in the studio and after a look at his spectrogram, he had to revise that impression: “Gone was the thriving density and diversity of birds. Gone, too, was the overall richness that had been present the year before. The only prominent sounds were the stream and hammering of a Williamson’s sapsucker.” The ear, then, turned out to be capable of detecting the true state of the habitat much more precisely and truthfully than the eye ever could."