Nature sound recordist Gordon Hempton shares some of his beautiful recordings, and discusses his One Square Inch of Silence project, including his recent book.<\/p>\n
Gordon Hempton requires no introduction for many in the recording world – his recording work speaks for itself, and he’s been at it for a long time.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s got a book out on natural quiet and his journey of advocacy, co-written with John Grossman.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s called One Square Inch of Silence: One Man’s Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World.\u00c2\u00a0 More info at onesquareinch.org\/book<\/a><\/p>\n Gordon discusses the sounds of his back yard, and his journey toward becoming a natural quiet advocate.<\/p>\n @ 7:38 – recording: Coyote duet recording from Gordon’s back yard At about 34 minutes a discussion ensues, topics including John Muir, hydrophones, the human-listening perspective, Ann Kroeber on the sound of space (and contact mics), the acoustics of Gordon’s backyard, binaural equipment, recording as a listening practice.<\/p>\n More discussion: Nature sound recordist Gordon Hempton shares some of his beautiful recordings, and discusses his One Square Inch of Silence project, including his recent book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basebot","category-basebot-podcast","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basoundecology.org\/listen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basoundecology.org\/listen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basoundecology.org\/listen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basoundecology.org\/listen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basoundecology.org\/listen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.basoundecology.org\/listen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/www.basoundecology.org\/listen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basoundecology.org\/listen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basoundecology.org\/listen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basoundecology.org\/listen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n@ 10:03 – on John Muir
\n@ 12:31 – Human noise intrusions into the story of the book coming to be
\n@ 17:30 – Establishment of One Square Inch (OSI) and effects
\n@ 20:57 – recording:\u00c2\u00a0 24-hours of Dawn Chorus compressed into One Minute
\n@ 25:22 – John Muir as a sound recordist (in text).\u00c2\u00a0 History of Muir and Hempton
\n@ 28:18 – recordings: Waters of the Muir world
\n@ 30:10 – recordings: Three waterfalls of Yosemite<\/p>\n
\n@ 51:57 – Finding good locations to record in nature.\u00c2\u00a0 Being still.
\n@ 2:00:21 – Not being eaten by the wildlife.\u00c2\u00a0 Noise and legislation.\u00c2\u00a0 Mark Twain and Mississippi songbirds.
\n@ 2:07:56 – recording: an amazing Sage Grouse recording.
\n@ 2:10:23 – recording: Dawn on the Mississippi River – a beautiful tour through the first minutes of the dawn chorus as the birds organize themselves acoustically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"