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The Great Animal Orchestra
Bernie Krause
Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
Little Brown & Co
March 2012
On Sale: March 19, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 0316086878
EAN: 9780316086875
Kindle: B006YC79RK
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's
leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life
discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching
far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing
machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that
remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged
from when the earliest humans first inhabited the
earth.
Krause shares fascinating insight into how
deeply animals rely on their aural habitat to survive and
the damaging effects of extraneous noise on the delicate
balance between predator and prey. But natural soundscapes
aren't vital only to the animal kingdom; Krause explores how
the myriad voices and rhythms of the natural world formed a
basis from which our own musical expression
emerged.
From snapping shrimp, popping viruses, and
the songs of humpback whales-whose voices, if unimpeded,
could circle the earth in hours-to cracking glaciers,
bubbling streams, and the roar of intense storms; from
melody-singing birds to the organlike drone of wind blowing
over reeds, the sounds Krause has experienced and describes
are like no others. And from recording jaguars at night in
the Amazon rain forest to encountering mountain gorillas in
Africa's Virunga Mountains, Krause offers an intense and
intensely personal narrative of the planet's deep and
connected natural sounds and rhythm.
The Great
Animal Orchestra is the story of one man's pursuit of
natural music in its purest form, and an impassioned case
for the conservation of one of our most overlooked natural
resources-the music of the wild.
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