Kaefo, Morning
Recorded by Steven Feld
Keywords: soundscape, rainforest, bosavi, field recording

Steven Feld writes: "From 1976-2000, I made several visits to live in the Bosavi rainforest region of Papua New Guinea ... Bosavi people analogize the time and space characteristics of water and voice. They say that voice is to body as water is to land; as water flows through and connects land, voice flows through and connects body."

Glacier Bay National Park
Recorded by Bernie Krause
Keywords: soundscape, arctic, glacier, field recording

Bernie Krause writes: "Few places on earth are a majestic or varied biologically as Alaska and none more breathtaking than the area in and around Glacier Bay National Park. It is here that whales, wolves and eagles converge to play out an ancient dance of life in one of the remaining pristine spots left on the planet ..."

Song of the Kauai 'O'o
Courtesy Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Keywords: extinct, hawaii, bird, field recording

This recording of an extinct Hawaiian bird was given to Electronic Music Foundation by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for 'Suspended Sounds', an installation of sounds by extinct, threatened or endangered species, created by Electronic Music Foundation for its Ear to the Earth festival in 2006.

Kits Beach
Recorded soundwalk by Hildegard Westerkamp
Keywords: field recording, acoustic ecology, sound art, Sondwalk

Hildegard Westerkamp, among the earliest creators of the soundwalk as a musical medium, narrates what she sees as she records the sounds of Kits Beach in Vancouver in 1989.

Stati d'Acqua / States of Water
Composition by David Monacchi
Keywords: composition, water, sound art

David Monacchi writes: "Stati d'Acqua reflects the manifold mutations that water undergoes ... Motion, stagnation, evaporation, condensation, and falling ... I used experimental microphone techniques ... I recorded springs, streams, waterfalls, water dripping in caves, and ocean waves. I found that water produces an infinite range of sounds ... "