By Neda Ulaby, Photo: Kathy Tarantola/Peabody Essex Museum, National Public Radio, January 6, 2022
Your imagination does the work at The Great Animal Orchestra – you just sit in a dark room and listen.
Currently at the Peabody Essex museum in Salem, Mass., through May 22, the exhibition immerses visitors into soundscapes from remote parts of the planet: seven of them, from the tropics to the tundra. No wildlife footage accompanies this symphony of wild animals. It's audio first, in a visually overstimulating world.
"The basic message is that the soundscapes of the natural world are the voices that we need to hear in order to moderate our behavior," says the show's creator, Bernie Krause. He's spent decades traversing the globe and collecting thousands of hours of animal habitat recordings as a soundscape ecologist.
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