Play a game of "Name That Tune" and try to identify which item matches the sound source. Listen to and learn about glaciers, droning midshipman fish, crop circle sounds, animal mimicry, manatee vocalizations, European starlings, wood bark beetles, windharps and Mexican jumping beans. (Play the game)
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Composer Kenneth Gaburo spent years in the deserts of California and wrote Antiphony IX, a work for orchestra, children and tape that reflects the ecosystem he found there. Read his text "LA", view score samples, and listen to the work. (Go to feature)
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Dutch music writer Rene Van Peer talks about the necessity of listening inclusively in primitive times, as a matter of survival, and how that kind of global attention is returning in modern times through the medium of technology and nature sound recordings. (Go to interview)
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