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Being Hear, Short Film on Gordon Hempton’s Sonic Ecology
National Geographic has the exclusive streaming of ‘Being Hear‘, a short film dedicated to Gordon Hempton’s philosophy and practice around listening and sound ecology. “In lyrical short film Being Hear, filmmakers Palmer Morse and Matt Mikkelsen capture Hempton in his element…
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Gordon Hempton Video Interview with Holly Hughes
Great interview with Gordon Hempton at the Edmonds Community College. via field recording group
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TEDx Amazônia: Gordon Hempton
One day,Gordon Hempton , slept on the grass. A storm fell and he continued asleep in the rain. That was the day he became fascinated with the sounds of nature. For 25 years, his job is to record sounds that…
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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,…