Bernard L. Krause Books

American bioacoustician and musician Bernie Krause has recorded more than 5,000 hours of natural habitats, including at least 15,000 terrestrial and marine species from all around the world since the 1970s. Poetic and scientific at the same time, this sound archive reveals the musical harmony and orchestral organization of animal vocalizations. This book presents The Great Animal Orchestra, a work created in 2016 by Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists for the exhibition spaces of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris. It tells the elaborate story of this unprecedented immersive installation, from the recordings of the sounds of nature realized by Bernie Krause to their visual translation into a three-dimensional video installation by United Visual Artists. Combining aesthetics and technology, The Great Animal Orchestra simultaneously offers a sound and visual meditation on the necessity of preserving the beauty of the natural world.

A founder of soundscape ecology offers a pioneering field guide for listening to and recording the sounds of the wild

Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is a leading expert in natural sound, dedicating his life to discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. He ventures beyond the noise of modern life to find wild places where soundscapes remain unchanged since the dawn of humanity. Krause reveals how animals depend on their aural habitats for survival and the detrimental impact of extraneous noise on the predator-prey balance. He also highlights how the diverse voices and rhythms of nature have influenced human musical expression. From the sounds of snapping shrimp and humpback whales—whose calls could circle the globe in hours—to cracking glaciers and intense storms, the unique sounds Krause describes are unparalleled. His experiences range from recording jaguars in the Amazon to encountering mountain gorillas in Africa's Virunga Mountains. Krause presents a deeply personal narrative that showcases the planet's interconnected natural sounds and rhythms. This work is a passionate plea for the conservation of one of our most overlooked natural resources: the music of the wild.

A musician and naturalist describes how the noise of humans is drowning out the sounds of nature and paints a picture of the relationship and connection between natural sounds and music that is becoming increasingly difficult to hear

A compact, digestible guide to the science of sound and a practical exploration of the health benefits of 'tidying up' the noise in your life