Bernie Krause Voice Of The Natural World

The Smallest Choice can have the Biggest Consequences: A New Critical Analysis of A Sound

The sounds of this creature was described as “A crunching, a crackling, a crushing , heavy thumping” and

The tonal shifts allow animals such as Orcinus orca, to distinguish between a sonar, (from an active boat), oceanic sounds, to other species.

In the article, " Hearing Sound Does not Require Ears," the author, Tabitha Callaway, states that, "Imagine meeting someone who speaks in a foreign language. You may be able to hear all of the sounds they are making, but unless you are familiar with the language they are speaking, you cannot understand what they are saying." This shows the final way how sound works, especially for humans. What the author is trying to explain is that, because the brain does not know this native language, the brain does not know what to do with the sounds. Our brains cannot translate these sound vocal cords if we do not know the language. Although the brain may be able to process the tone of the voice that is speaking ( the voice could be angry, sad, or full of fear,) we would not be able to process the words into our native language, because we do not know the language the other person is speaking. That was the final way sound

The recent construction near wildlife habitats has caused many animals to go homeless and of course, it has polluted our air all at the same time. Not just construction and manufacturing, but also how clear-cutting is decreasing amounts of undisturbed habitat. The federal Recovery Strategy for the Woodland caribou identifies that’s 65% of land needs to be undisturbed for a chance of at least 60% of the population to survive. We, humans, disturb their habitat and we are a main reason for this recent

One of the largest concerns, dealing with the spotted owl / forest industry debate, is the loss of jobs. There were 21,000 jobs lost during the time that this debate took place (Ross, 1999). The amount of job losses in the logging and milling industry at this time were not solely attributed to the spotted owl controversy. The downward trend in the timber harvest

“Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.”

The habitat the wooden area provides is wet due to the water running through it. There are beavers, who like corn and have killed some trees and birds such as the chickadee and black throated warbler. There are deer and garden snakes and at one time a fox in the preserve. However, because the preserve is close to a farm and a stream (actually right between the two) there is a lot of edge effect. Edge effect is the abrupt transition between two quite different adjoining ecological communities on the numbers and kinds of organisms in the marginal habitat. In this particular case, it is not a hug surprise because the preserve is not a large landscape. It is rather narrow and from a sky view it looks very small compared to the land next to it. We also found out that the land was also used as a dumping ground for personal trash such as a car and old

Since the dawn of time, we humans have considered music as an arrangement of tones and rests into continuous patterns - a medium through which emotions and messages can be conveyed. In his novel, Bug Music, author, musician, and environmental philosopher, David Rothenberg, attempts to challenge all previously held beliefs surrounding how humans gained a sense of rhythm and sound. Rothenberg’s widely-acclaimed novel considers the notion that humans gained their perception of rhythm, synchronization, and sound from the great thrumming of insects. It is imperative for any student taking AP Biology to comprehend how the synchronization of rhythms is essential for cycles of nature at the ecological level, and the maintaining of the body’s balances at the level of the organism (Rothenberg,

Provide five examples of sound that are included in these 53 pages. What is the meaning behind each sound? Provide page numbers.

To understand these ideas, you first have to have a basic understanding of how sound is created.

One of numerous terms imperative to the scope of this document is field recording. A literal interpretation (i.e., to record in a field) falls short of what is encompassed. In contrast to the type of recording with which many musicians may be familiar, within a highly controlled space exhibiting minimal extraneous sound, field recording is audio recording conducted outside a recording studio. This comes without exception, acquiring sounds produced by life, nature, or anything else present. Noted field recordist and ecologist Bernie Krause (b. 1938) categorized the diverse sounds one may record into three categories. Geophony refers to non-biological sounds produced by the earth (e.g., wind, water). Sounds made by the species of the recorded area are classified as biophony, while human generated sounds of any kind are referred to as anthrophony.

Psychoacoustics can be simply described as how our brain perceives sounds that are heard throughout our environment. Psychoacoustics can be described by channeling three sub-categories or dimensions: physical, physiological, and perceptual (Vassilakis, 2015). The physical aspects include: actual vibrations and sound waves projected into the environment that reaches the ear and further pathways in the brain. The physiological dimension refers to the actual shape and design features of the ear and the contributions that each part makes in creating and hearing a sound. Lastly, the perceptual dimension refers to what the brain is interpreting from a sound, aided through the physical and physiological dimensions of the overarching psychoacoustic category. Psychoacoustics originated from psychophysics—clearly demonstrating the relationship between what happens in our physical surroundings and what our brain perceives (Vassilakis, 2015).

It is within this framework that I consider important to study the way in which sound is

Using sound devices, he states that the wind whispered, yelled, sighed and spoke like a normal human would. Stating