If you haven’t had the chance to experience the excellent ‘Being Hear’ documentary – featuring recordist Gordon Hempton – be sure to check it out below:
For most of his life, Gordon Hempton has been in pursuit of nature’s myriad and multi-faceted soundscapes as an Emmy-winning acoustic ecologist. During that time, he has become a master of a skill that is inarguably a dying art: listening. In Being Hear he shares insights on the constant and nuanced communications of nature, the alarming extinction of places unaffected by human activity, the way quiet can open our eyes to the larger picture and the benefits of simply paying attention to place. Silence, as he puts it, “is the think tank of the soul.”
Want to know more about the making of the documentary? Rycote just published a great interview with Palmer Morse and Matt Mikkelsen here.
