The Practice--Listening to Nature Songs
Wikipedia For as long as I know, humans have bonded with the natural world through songs. This includes a human-non-human musical interaction or the human grabbing inspiration from bird or frog songs. Within my own time, I've encountered musicians who either play music in a natural setting as an interaction with non-humans (David Rothenberg) or collect natural sounds to wed to sound healing recordings (Marjorie De Muynck). And let's not forget indigenous musicians who play flute, drums or didgeridoo in the wild. While I could provide an exhaustive list of such recordings, today I prefer to focus on recordings of natural sounds such as birds, whales, and wind. Okay, I sense a few yawns from readers of this post. We remember those early new age recordings of nature sounds that we used to induce sleep or ease tension, am I right? And I prefer to spend time in a wooded or marine setting listening to nature in the raw. However, that's hard to d...