Help: Wild Sanctuary

Subject: Wild Sanctuary
From: GUEST,Soundscapist
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 03:50 AM

Has anyout read the biography of ex-Weavers Bernie Krause: Into a Wild Sanctuary?

Subject: RE: Help: Wild Sanctuary
From: p.j.
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 02:14 PM

Soundscapest, yes indeed! Bernie and I have known each other for about the last 15 years, we currently work together on the board of a non-profit that does environmental research and education. Into a Wild Sanctuary is his latest book, filled with some of his best stories. If you enjoyed it, be sure to get the previous one, Notes From the Wild, which includes a CD of some of the animal sounds which he describes in the accounts of his field work, and a bit of the music of the Babenzele Pygmies.

Bernie has had an extraordinary life, in fact he's had several extraordinary lives, and is quite a character. His website is well worth a visit-- it's www.wildsanctuary.com

Given your name, I can imagine you must be fascinated by his work. Do you do something similar?

pj

Subject: RE: Help: Wild Sanctuary
From: GUEST,Jens
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 04:34 AM

I'm not working in this field, I am just interested. But I am also interested in the many careers of Bernie. I've come across his name so many times, whether it was on the Reunion at Carnigie Hall, which is one of the most influential records I have heard. Bernie's part was very much in the background, but a major part nonetheless, or it could be as a credit to a Highwaymen record. More to the point were his B&K records, which were enourmously hard to come by in my part of the world (Denmark), but very much well worth the while. Even so I have still not ever been able to find the Nonesuch Guide nor Citadels, even though I have ordered them more times than I care to remember. And then there's the work of the bioacoustic - challenging and as much an influence as was that Weavers record. I do find the biography interesting reading, but since he does give background info on how and why some of his recordings were made, I just wish he had been more consistent. All Good Men fits in well with the rest of his work in terms of concept and subject matter, but there are still some details missing: who for instance was Adrienne Anderson? I could do without his swipes at the industry, it's ok to know he's been treated badly, but I'd much rather hear more about the creative phases. Oh, and I do find it particularly interesting that Bernie's whole career these last 30 years has been based on a chance meeting and suggestion by Van Dyke Parks that he'd take up ecology. Who knows what Bernie might have been doing if that suggestion hadn't been made