The great animal orchestra : finding the origins of music in the world's wild places
Summary
A musician and naturalist describes how the noise of humans is drowning out the sounds of nature and paints a picture of the relationship and connection between natural sounds and music that is becoming increasingly difficult to hear. Full description
- Prelude : echoes of the past
- Sound as my mentor
- Voices from the land
- The organized sound of life itself
- Biophony : the proto-orchestra
- First notes
- Different croaks for different folks
- The fog of noise
- Noise and biophony, oil and water
- The coda of hope.