The great animal orchestra : finding the origins of music in the world's wild places / Bernie Krause
Utgivare: New York : Little, Brown, 2012Beskrivning: 278 s. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 978-0-316-08687-5; 978-0-316-08686-8Ämne(n): Ljudmiljö | Ljud -- psykologiska aspekter | Buller -- psykologiska aspekter | Krause, Bernard L. -- Travel | Soundscapes (Music) | Nature sounds | Animal sounds | Music -- Historiography | Sounds -- Psychological aspects | Noise -- Psychological aspects | Aural history | Field recordings | Musicians -- United StatesDDK-klassifikation: 780 SAB-klssifikation: Ij Anmärkning bestånd: EMS : C1 | C13.632 Libris-ID: 13914472Summary: 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| Item type | Current library | Call number | Materials specified | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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