The sounds of nature, as music
When Bernie Krause headed out into the woods outside San Francisco to record soundscapes in the natural world, he had an epiphany that changed his life. “I decided I never wanted to spend another minute indoors,” he told an audience Thursday night in Boylston Hall. The result of the forest recordings became the 1970 album “In a Wild Sanctuary,” a collaboration with Krause’s recording partner Paul Beaver. It was the first album of its kind to address ecology and to incorporate natural sounds. Sound bitesSound excerpts from “The Great Animal Orchestra: A Performance & Dialogue in Soundscape and Poetry” at Boylston Hall Sept. 27. Sounds of a live coral reef Sounds of a dying coral reef Lincoln Meadow in the Sierras, 1988, pre-selective logging Lincoln Meadow one year after selective logging Poetic call-and-response soundscape by Bernie Krause and Jonathan Skinner (excerpt) Krause, a pioneering electronic and studio musician who once worked with the likes of the Byrds, the...