Nature Listening

Heard some of my Wild Looping Bass pieces? Curious about the wild sounds I use?

Here’s an ever-growing list of where I source my wild nature sounds, and other helpful sites. Big thanks to all the recordists, scientists and naturalists cited for their generous help and permission!

The Reef Song project: Led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science in partnership with James Cook University and the Universities of Bristol and Exeter, UK, this project works to restore damaged coral reefs by projecting the sound of health reefs to attract coral larvae.

Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group: A marvellous group of naturalists and citizen scientists who record nature and share it.

Andrew Skeoch, president of AWSRG and renowned wildlife recordist, author and public speaker. He has multiple CDs available of nature sound through his label Listening Earth.

David George Haskell, New York Times bestselling science author and renowned ecologist, based in Georgia, USA. Especially loved for his “Songs of Trees.”

NASA: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the USA has gathered a lot of space data, and recently began to explore sonification of images from its various telescopes. Find them here.

I’m very grateful to collaborate with the incredible Newcastle-based landscape photographer Cath Bunton. Find her work here.

I’m also grateful to Annie Crawley, US-based underwater filmmaker, photographer, author and advocate, for her glorious footage of humpback whales. (Tip: She leads dive tours…)