Interpreting sound gives powerful insight into the health of ecosystems. Beyond detecting
the presence of wildlife, bioacoustic signals can reveal their behavior. However, behavioral …

Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

While the potential of creativity and of the arts for societal transformation towards
sustainability has gained attention over recent years, a specific focus on music is lacking in …

Soundscape assessment has been proposed as a remote ecological monitoring tool for
measuring biodiversity, but few studies have examined how soundscape patterns vary with …

Although much prized in daily conversation, good listening has been almost completely
ignored in that form of political conversation we know as democracy. This book examines …

Climate change is an important cause of the irreversible transformation of habitats, of the
rapid extinction of species, and of the dramatic changes in entire communities, especially for …

We're supposed to hate cacophony, but a few years ago on a cold Sunday in Berlin i was
struck by the horror that sometimes lurks in silence and by the warm humanity that often …

Compared with our cousins on the Tree of Life, humans are poor listeners. 1 Below the
lower end of human hearing lies deep infrasound: the realm of thunder and tornadoes …

Soundscape Ecology is an emerging area of science that does not focus on the identification
of species in the soundscape but attempts to characterize sounds by organizing them into …

Through his organization Wild Sanctuary, Bernie Krause has traveled the globe to hear and
record the sounds of diverse natural habitats. Wild Soundscapes, first published in 2002 …