This is a conversation I had with the naturerecordists@yahoo: We need an Interactive Google map of LIVE Wild Soundscape feeds all over the world - so that our governments are held accountable to monitoring as well as IMPROVING our Wild Soundscapes. This is what we must accomplish. There, I finally said it... in the simplest possible way. In fact, sound IS light. Usually, where we find light (as in, man-made light) we also find people highways and machines etc. so that would be a good place to start executing this attack. When we examine it at the quantum physics level, we see how sound is nothing more than an energy force oscillating in waves at various frequencies, just like light does. The idea here is to focus on incremental momentum, concerning how where and why this interactive Wild Soundscapes Google map would be implemented; and like in any great invasion, slowly expand our horizons to designated targets where the noisiest places are located, such as cities, etc. and specific places within those areas. Eventually establishing anthrophony zones and natural ones, so neither be completely obliterated. Enforcing Wild Soundscape zones legally or using Law would also add to the responsibilities of groups such as neighborhood watch, etc. and could potentially be a source of income - via fines; creating jobs. Or something like that. Send out emails, post to Facebook or Tweet out the info to engage people to go to Hemptons and Krauses websites for listening and learning about nature and sound. Organize public concerts of soundscapes and have a Q&A session afterwards to address the environmental impact of anthrophony in these soundscapes. This is a very critical role that anyone interested in improving the relationship of their community with nature can take up. I plan to do this more and more - if by no other means, simply as a volunteer, or even a hobby. And good, well designed, clear and simple FLYERS placed regularly at strategic locations, venues etc. is also a very underestimated way to effectively inform the public, and it is a great way to feel active in this regard and with the community. A live feed could be accessed by anyone at any time, via the internet, much like live video cameras monitoring endangered species can be accessed, and recordings could be compiled annually in local databases/hard drives, likely housed in municipal buildings or the like. In doing so, we would then have sonic data, easily displayed on screen or even paper to prove our point, and the professionals to back it up: At such and such a time there is too much noise (surpassing an agreed upon decibel meter) from such and such activities (say, logging) in this area, within the audible range of these specific habitats & animals (I usually go with SONGBIRDS - even the meanest people I know seem to have a cosmological reverence for these sensitive musical creatures) - just look at the audible graphics compared to last year… hence we need improved logging methods, better machinery etc. That way, we can improve the soundscape by incrementally lowering the desired decibel goal of anthrophony each year until it is ZERO. The fact remains - this must be accomplished. Laws concerning vehicle-generated noises must be enforced; an entire change in how we view transportation and machinery, or hear these, rather is forward-thinking. It is literally bound to happen. No one in their right mind would choose to live in a noisy stressed-out world. We can argue that such an interactive Wild Soundscapes Google map will create jobs - for professional nature sound recording engineers and others. We have many valid points in the debate - for example, what boxed-in teacher indoors all day long with those horrid fluorescence tube light bulbs and sterile reverberating concrete white walls would not be passionate about taking the kids outside more to learn about the natural world? Electrical machinery... etc. I will most certainly not stand around to watch all the work that leaders such as Krause and Hempton et al. have accomplished go unnoticed. So watch out! youtube/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU
Posted on: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 04:41:03 +0000
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