Notes and References
for Deep Listening to Nature
Soundtrack
Supplementary chapter:
The Evolution of Rhythm
Chapter 1: An Invitation to Listening
2. Pauline Oliveros. (2005). Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice. iUniverse.
3. Hildegard Westerkamp, Inside the Soundscape.
5. Lang Elliott, Music of Nature.
Chapter 2: A Practice of Listening
8. Australian frogs: FrogID, The Australian Museum.
9. Australian cicadas:
Lindsay Popple’s cicada site
cicadamania
10, 11. Global birds audio:
xeno-canto
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, eBird
Chapter 4: Hearing Sentience
17. Carl Safina: In this TED talk, Carl describes empathy with animals around 7:30. Aw, heck, watch the whole thing, it is so worth it.
18. Hollis Taylor. (2017). Absolute Bird, available from
20. View sequencing analysis on Soundtrack page
21. View spectrograms on Soundtrack page
22. BBC segment on the speed of dragonfly perception
Chapter 6: Listening to Deep Time
26. The Greenish Warbler is a well-studied example.
30. View spectrogram analysis on Soundtrack page
Chapter 7: Sonic Strategies
36. Songbird species number among the most populous in the world.
37. View graphs on Soundtrack page
Chapter 11: The Listening Peoples
46. I can’t locate a video of the live seminar I recall, however, here Mary Graham discusses the foundations of Aboriginal thinking, including the idea (around 7 min) that the character of the land had come into the peoples that lived there.
Chapter 12: The Communicating Biosphere
58. An (admittedly visual) example from the lyrics of Canadian singer- songwriter Bruce Cockburn (3rd verse).
Chapter 13: An Ecological Future
60. The Seville Statement on Violence.
61. The Planetary Boundaries concept. Some introductions:
Stockholm Resilience Centre
science.org
youtube I
youtube 2
63. A supplementary chapter to this book dicusses the sonic strategies that may have shaped Hominin evolution.
Acknowledgements
67. Sarah’s ceramic work on instagram
68. The Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group
70. Lang Elliott's Music of Nature
71. 'Hearing your Place in Nature': Video of Andrew's TEDx talk in Canberra, 2017