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Title: Discovering a 'Singing' Tree - Bernie Krause
Added: Oct 2, 2009
Author: ForaTv
Duration: 2:27
Description:
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/22/Dr_Bernie_Krause_The_Great_Animal_OrchestraDr. Bernie Krause, creator of Wild Sanctuary, explains how he recorded audio signals emitting from the trunk of a cottonwood tree while trying to record bat emissions. He decided the song derives from cells dying as a result of sucking in too much air while trying to maintain osmotic pressure.-----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.Learn about unusual soundscapes and their relevance to preserving natural sounds worldwide. Biophony--the notion that all sounds in undisturbed natural habitats fit into unique niches--will be used to illustrate the ways in which animals taught humans to dance and sing. - California Academy of SciencesSince 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording and archiving the sounds of creatures and environments large and small. Working at the research sites of Jane Goodall (Gombe, Tanzania), Biruta Galdikas (Camp Leakey, Borneo), and Dian Fossey (Karisoke, Rwanda), he identified the concept of biophony (a/k/a The Niche Hypothesis) based on the relationships of individual creatures to the total biological soundscape within a given habitat.Dr. Krause was Scientific Director (appointed by NOAA) of the operation that rescued Humphrey the humpback whale from the Sacramento Delta (1985) using processed feeding sounds of the same species to lure him to the ocean. Through his company, Wild Sanctuary, he has recorded over 50 natural soundscape CDs, and creates interactive environmental sound sculpture commissions for museums and other public spaces throughout the world.Utilizing proprietary delivery technology, his sound sculpture commissions can be heard at the American Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC), the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Chicago Science Museum, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center (near Mystic, CT), the California Academy of Sciences, the Flint River Center in Albany, Georgia, Natural World Museum (SF), and five new installations at the World Financial Center (NYC opening 6 October 2006). Krause is currently commissioned to prepare a series of tropical and sub-tropical rainforest installations for the new California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park scheduled to open in the Fall of 2008.
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Youtube Comments: 31
mattghtpa Says:
Oct 2, 2009 - Makes me wonder and also sad at what else we are missing or just ignoring.
mattghtpa Says:
Oct 2, 2009 - It's Happening!
globalarte Says:
Oct 2, 2009 - Amazing!!!
rastarigate Says:
Oct 2, 2009 - hahahaha... is that movie any good?
blackiron60 Says:
Oct 2, 2009 - Very interesting.
madhoyden Says:
Oct 3, 2009 - That was pretty cool.
9thincarnation Says:
Oct 3, 2009 - Good stuff. Was an arborist for 20 years and some trees scream when you cut them with a chainsaw.
franksvenatra Says:
Oct 4, 2009 - That's awesome. It sounds like aphex twin.
InTheSticks1881 Says:
Oct 4, 2009 - Who wooda thunk? Do animals hear the forest talking?
Inupiatun Says:
Oct 4, 2009 - It sounds like a fractal rhythm :D
freesk8 Says:
Oct 5, 2009 - The sound is caused by tree cells dying?Why are they dying in such a regular rhythm? That makes no sense at all. If these were the sounds of tree cells dying, they would be random. More like white noise. The cells don't "line up" for their chance to die.Why not the sound of a straw slurping when the liquid gets too low? This is regular, and the tree's cells are like long straws.
marsCubed Says:
Oct 5, 2009 - This correlates with something I have been playing with, which is the concept that signals within cells or organisms can be thought of as sound. a kind of meeting of music geometry and information.Sound in this context is a series of arrangements each making their case, summing to a whole which may be thought of as a kind of jazz representing the beliefs a cell has.These kinds of relationship are fascinating. interconnections on so many levels.
0BatGirl0 Says:
Oct 6, 2009 - Trees have good rythm
shayral Says:
Oct 31, 2009 - That is just fucking creepy to think about. Why'd you quit?
9thincarnation Says:
Oct 31, 2009 - First - some trees scream in the spring due to great internal pressure. When you make a cut ( you hear it when using a handsaw or turn off your chainsaw) all of that running sap can create a sudden negative pressure and it'll make a high pitched squeeking noise. Quit from too much wear and tear on my body. Torn rotator cuffs , almost died from tuleramia. I once loved caring for trees.
shayral Says:
Oct 31, 2009 - Sounds like a pretty interesting profession. Hope your body is in better shape these days.
PeregrineTrousers Says:
Dec 18, 2009 - Don't let it bug ya. Nice periodic waveform tho!
Tones4me1 Says:
Sep 9, 2010 - I will share this with everyone I know. Awesome!
riveredirt Says:
May 26, 2011 - excellent
BernieKrauseTV Says:
Nov 29, 2011 - Find our more about how the natural world is filled with music in Bernie Krause's new book: "The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places" (Little/Brown, 2012).
Kreneep1052 Says:
Dec 30, 2011 - "some trees scream when you cut them with a chainsaw."that's sad
plbuster Says:
Feb 8, 2012 - You can't hear it....the chainsaw is too loud.
Kreneep1052 Says:
Feb 8, 2012 - "You can't hear it....the chainsaw is too loud."that's not funny
thiszooisofflimits Says:
Apr 15, 2012 - wonderful
ncfwhitetigress Says:
Oct 2, 2009 - that's kewl