Garden Anenome
There have been many heavy showers, but overall we’ve had a great week with intense sun at times. The garden is looking quite beautiful with the sparkly mix of sun and rain, I particularly love the colour and form of these anenomes, especially backlit like this. There’s a lovely energy to them.
I’ve been reading a fascinating book by Bernie Krause, a musician and sound recordist who has for many years explored the acoustic ‘community’ of places in nature and how human cultures relate to this native soundscape in their music. Here is a short extract:
“Natural soundscapes are one of the most fertile unexplored open sources of information. They contain secrets of our origins, our past, our cultural present, along with significant insights into our future – the increasing presence of human noise, changes based on shifting climate or evolution. Biophonies contain the acoustic compass we need to guide us in a challenged planet.
Bioacoustics was focused on the notion of the voices of single species – until recently it would never have occurred to biologists to evaluate the health of a biome by listening and studying the total acoustic community. But there are multiple layers of consequence in that collective voice.
Within soundscapes are narratives, encoded stories that expose long held secrets, what Samuel Coleridge once referred to as the mighty alphabet of the universe.”
Bernie Krause, – ‘The Great Animal Orchestra‘