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Bernie Krause

(1938) Musician

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Bernie Krause is a musician.

Quick Facts About Bernie Krause

Born: December 8, 1938
Profession: Musician

About Bernie Krause

[Wikidata] American musician, author, soundscape recordist and bio-acoustician (*1938)... | [Wikipedia] Bernard L. Krause is an American musician and soundscape ecologist. In 1968, he founded Wild Sanctuary, an organization dedicated to the recording and archiving of natural soundscapes. Krause is an author, a bio-acoustician, a speaker, and natural sound artist who coined the terms geophony, biophony

Quotes by Bernie Krause

Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs].…

Animal

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With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into…

Becoming

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The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to…

Boundless

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Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other…

Culture

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A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,

Becoming

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