Dr Bernie Krause discovers a Singing Cottonwood Tree. (2009)

Dr. Bernie Krause, creator of Wild Sanctuary, demonstrates that every living organism produces sound. This presentation focuses on the symbiotic ways in which the sounds of one organism affect and interrelate with other organisms, local and regional, within a given habitat.

Learn about unusual soundscapes and their relevance to preserving natural sounds worldwide. Biophony--the notion that all sounds in undisturbed natural habitats fit into unique niches--will be used to illustrate the ways in which animals taught humans to dance and sing.

watch the full presentation "The Great Animal Orchestra" here

BIO

Bernie Krause
Since 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording and archiving the sounds of creatures and environments large and small. Working at the research sites of Jane Goodall (Gombe, Tanzania), Biruta Galdikas (Camp Leakey, Borneo), and Dian Fossey (Karisoke, Rwanda), he identified the concept of biophony (a/k/a The Niche Hypothesis) based on the relationships of individual creatures to the total biological soundscape within a given habitat.

Dr. Krause was Scientific Director (appointed by NOAA) of the operation that rescued Humphrey the humpback whale from the Sacramento Delta (1985) using processed feeding sounds of the same species to lure him to the ocean. Through his company, Wild Sanctuary, he has recorded over 50 natural soundscape CDs, and creates interactive environmental sound sculpture commissions for museums and other public spaces throughout the world.

Utilizing proprietary delivery technology, his sound sculpture commissions can be heard at the American Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC), the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Chicago Science Museum, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center (near Mystic, CT), the California Academy of Sciences, the Flint River Center in Albany, Georgia, Natural World Museum (SF), and five new installations at the World Financial Center (NYC opening 6 October 2006). Krause is currently commissioned to prepare a series of tropical and sub-tropical rainforest installations for the new California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park scheduled to open in the Fall of 2008.

During his life as a professional studio musician, he replaced Pete Seeger in the Weavers (1963), and with his late music partner, Paul Beaver, introduced the synthesizer to pop music and film. Their work can be heard on over 250 albums and 135 feature films released between 1967 and 1980

Robert Smithson & Nancy Holt - Swamp (1969)

Glacier

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Bird Feathers "Sing"

Michael Snow - La Région Centrale (1971)

Ukichiro Nakaya - Snow Crystals: Natural and Artificial (1954)

Nuclear physicist Ukichiro Nakaya was the first person to grow artificial snowflakes in a laboratory and to perform a true systematic study of snow crystals.

Axolotl

Currently critically endangered, more information HERE.

Sounds of the Ubangi Mormyrid (Elephant Nose Fish)

The weak electrical impulses generated by this fish can be made audible by placing two electrodes in the fish tank, which are then hooked up to an audio amplifier or a piezoelectric earbud. The sonar-like clicks that this fish emits can sound like a squeaky door when the fish is excited.


Listen HERE.

More reading, "10 misconceptions about Nature Recordings" can be found HERE.

Werner Herzog - Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

Waddell Seals in Antarctica.

コトドリ

コトドリ（琴鳥、学名:Menura novaehollandiae）は、スズメ目コトドリ科に分類される鳥類の一種。
全長オス約100cm、メス約90cm。オスの尾羽が竪琴に似ており、和名の由来となっている。
温帯性多雨林から熱帯多雨林に生息する。地上性で飛ぶことはほとんどなく、飛んでも滑空する程度。昆虫などの無脊椎動物を捕食する。

オスは物まねがとてもうまく、他の鳥や動物の声、物音を真似る。オスは土や落ち葉で塚を作り、求愛時にはその上で物まねをしながら尾羽を広げ、ダンスを行う。木の枝や葉でドーム型の巣を作る。一夫多妻制で、抱卵や育雛はメスのみが行う。巣立ちまでの日数は約6週間。