Friday, August 24, 2012

Dr. Bernie Krause: The Great Animal Orchestra


Dr. Bernie Krause: The Great Animal Orchestra from California Academy of Sciences and California Academy of Sciences on FORA.tv

"Dr. Bernie Krause, creator of Wild Sanctuary, demonstrates that every living organism produces sound. This presentation focuses on the symbiotic ways in which the sounds of one organism affect and interrelate with other organisms, local and regional, within a given habitat."

He is author of the book from this year; The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wildest Places. He show in this presentation how sounds effects organisms calling it the soundscape ecology. Dr. Bernie Krause has records of animals which are no longer present in different areas, he also show how the range of sounds change when the ecosystem change.