Today (15th of April) I went to forest nearby. Task was to listen sounds of nature and describe at least 10 of them.
Before going to woods, I listened Bernie Krause on TedTalks talking about the voice of a natural world. Krause speaks about importance becoming aware of our nature soundscapes, because it speaks and provides us information of changes taking place due to human actions and to prevent harming our enviroment, our habitat.
According to Krause the soundscape is made up of three basic sources:
1. GEOPHONY - nonbiological sounds that occur in any given habitat (wind in the trees; water in a stream...)
2. BIOPHONY - all of the sound that`s generated by organisms in a given habitat at one time and in one place.
3. ANTROPHONY - sounds that humans generate (they can be controlled (music) or chaotic (traffic).
Before going to woods, I listened Bernie Krause on TedTalks talking about the voice of a natural world. Krause speaks about importance becoming aware of our nature soundscapes, because it speaks and provides us information of changes taking place due to human actions and to prevent harming our enviroment, our habitat.
According to Krause the soundscape is made up of three basic sources:
1. GEOPHONY - nonbiological sounds that occur in any given habitat (wind in the trees; water in a stream...)
2. BIOPHONY - all of the sound that`s generated by organisms in a given habitat at one time and in one place.
3. ANTROPHONY - sounds that humans generate (they can be controlled (music) or chaotic (traffic).
And here are the results of my endeavors of listening and describing voices of nature:
I share couple of videos I took in forest: lot of sounds, a brisk squirrel and slightly disturbed woodpigeon:
- It had snowed in the early morning. But the sun`s already vernal and forced snow to melt quite quickly. That was the first sound I noticed entering to forest – melting snow dropping off the branches, quiet bum-bum.
- If to listen carefully, it is audible how soil absorbes, not to say lurps, thirstily melted snow, aka water, inside.
- I was accopmanied by very annoying sound or better say noise. It was my own footsteps – ground crackling under my feet with every step.
- So of course I stopped time to time, simply standing and listening. First stop was on a bridge which lead over a narrow creek – and there I heard, an orchestra. It was a different sizes of waterdrops dripping from branches in the creek. It sounded pling-plong-dil-dol (I don`t have word for that sound, must go with onomatopoeia).
- Suddenly gust of wind swept over the forest, and it felt and sounded like someone turned a shower on because wind rapidly shook trees and forced to drop down every single waterdrop they held on their branches.
- As I started to walk again, I scared few birds who took off by loud whirr (it should be a word which describes a sound what makes bird`s wing on fly).
- Albeit few birds escaped, a lot of birds weren`t frightened by me, not to mention one woodpigeon who seemed slightly annoyed about my observation and camera – flew from branch to branch seeking more privacy, wings making a soft knock-like sound.
- And then there was trees full of undisturbed and playful birds who sang out loud like it was last day of their lives and only singing can save them. It was beautiful, and more I listened, more sunny I felt in my heart. It`s therapy for my soul. Birds I saw and recognized: magpies, passers, siskins, goldcrest, fieldfares, great tits, robins, woodpeckers.
- Wind started to pick up and sounded more like an ocean waves than a spruce forest (my nearby forest is mostly spruce forest, few decidious trees among).
- Altough heart feels good and forest is nice, a chaotic and annoyng anthrophony keeps kicking in – a highway noise, albeit 1,5km away, still disturbing constantly. I have to do a lot of meditation to get this low whining sound out of my mind and concentrate on more positive beats.
I share couple of videos I took in forest: lot of sounds, a brisk squirrel and slightly disturbed woodpigeon: