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The Great Animal Orchestra - Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places (Paperback)
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The Great Animal Orchestra - Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places (Paperback)
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List price R436
Loot Price R368
Discovery Miles 3 680
You Save R68 (16%)
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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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