Below I’m archiving a collection of interviews on soundscapes and the natural world.
From two episodes of Local Locations, a radio show I’ve co-hosted or subbed in for Ernst Karel. His show offers extended recordings of sonic environments documented by Ernst, myself, Cheryl Leonard, and Mark Lipman.
“We can’t care about something if we feel no connection to it. And even without describing it as {whale} song, the sounds themselves are musical to our consciousness I think. And through that sound, through hearing it, we feel a connection to life that is otherwise so remote from our everyday experience.“ - John Ryan, oceanographer and senior research specialist at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, on Local Locations.