gordon hempton
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Interview with The Sound Tracker
Very nice interview with Gordon Hempton, published by Shaun Farley at Designing Sound. Gordon Hempton is one of the world’s foremost nature sound recordists. He’s won an Emmy, been the subject of a documentary, is an activist for acoustic ecology,…
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Going Deaf, Gordon Hempton Races to Finish His “Quiet Planet” Work
In a very touching interview, Gordon Hempton, known as “The SoundTracker” talks about an illness he has that is leaving him deaf. Can’t imagine how hard it should be for him (or any other person) to lose their listening faculties,…
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The Last Quiet Places
“The Last Quiet Places“, new podcast by On Being featuring Gordon Hempton. Gordon Hempton says that silence is an endangered species. He defines real quiet as presence — not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise. The Earth,…
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The Sun Interviews Gordon Hempton
World-reknowned field recordist Gordon Hempton, author of “One Square Inch of Silence” (a great read) and subject of the recent documentary “Soundtracker” (a great film), was recently interviewed by The Sun on his quest for silence in the natural world.…