The Great Animal Orchestra Quotes

“Many of us don’t distinguish between the acts of listening and hearing. It’s”
― Bernie Krause, The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places

“It was in that semifloating state--that transition between the blissful suspension of awareness and the depths of total unconsciousness--that I first encountered the transparent weave of creature voices not only as a choir but as a cohesive sonic event. No longer a cacophony, it became a partitioned collection of vocal organisms--a highly orchestrated acoustic arrangement of insects, spotted hyenas, eagle-owls, African wood-owls, elephants, tree hyrax, distant lions, and several knots of tree frogs and toads. Every distinct voice seemed to fit within its own acoustic bandwidth.”
― Bernie Krause, Le Grand Orchestre des Animaux - The Great Animal Orchestra

“I had always used my ears as filters - for shutting noise out - rather than as portals allowing large amounts of information in. A fine microphone system lets me differentiate between what to listen TO and what to listen FOR.”
― Bernie Krause, The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places