David Whyte - Venturing Across the Unknown

More thunder!  Lots of storms here this summer.  Recorded using MKH 8020s in DIY closed-cell foam SASS, to a Sound Devices 702, volume 30, increased in post by 15 dB.  Yellow-rumped Thornbills and Eastern Yellow Robins are calling.  Capertee Valley, NSW, Australia.  22 degrees C.  February 17, 2012, 2.15 pm.

846 THUNDER 8020s SASS 170212

Sunrise at Rosies Bay Track, Te Urewera Forest, 05.30  22 Oct 2018.

Te Urewera, Rosies Bay Track Dawn

Ebb & Flow

The Secret Lighthouse

April 20, 2019. The recording begins at 7.37 in the morning. I really like diversity of birds in Matsalu but recording is somewhat difficult because there are no natural obstacles (thick forest or mountains) to preventing noise from the roads. It's not technically pure clean recording. It's a sketch, the groundwork, note in my audio notebook.

A walk through the landscape of Matsalu National Park, Estonia.

This Yoga Nidra is to help you wake up and greet the day.

Good Morning Yoga Nidra with Melanie Cooper

Медитация 9б с ретрита по любящей доброте, проведенного в феврале 2020 года – радость (визуальный метод)

Другие материалы: www.contemplative.ru/metta2020/

Ретрит по любящей доброте 2020

Медитация 9б (ЛД2020) - Радость (визуальный метод)

Fragments from the forthcoming multi-disc release “The Last Things” by Phil Tomsett & the Inventors of Aircraft.

Wist Rec 29 takes a psychogeographic tour of Paul Auster’s ‘In the Country of Last Things’ though set in a small village to which our protagonist ventures to. 
https://wistrec.com/wist-rec-029-2/

Phil Tomsett & the Inventors of Aircraft, The Last Things (fragments)

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/03/15/today-another-universe-jane-hirshfield-ledger-jasmine

Kindly recorded by the poet for Brain Pickings.

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Jane Hirshfield reads "Today, Another Universe"

As the Coronavirus breaks the everyday routines of our lives and forces us to stop, how can we respond? In this conversation with poet and philosopher David Whyte, we explore the conversational nature of reality, the poetic imagination, and our relationship with silence and the invitation embedded within it. 

At times in our lives the conversation we have been in comes to an end and how we must embrace the unknown in order to find the new courageous conversation that wants to emerge. These are soul-making times that are inviting us to to listen deeply as we ask the question"who do we choose to be?".

David Whyte is a poet and philosopher and an associate fellow at Saïd
Business School at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Heart
Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
and Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of
Everyday Words, and The Bell and the Blackbird. His latest collection is
David Whyte: Essentials.

A list of resources mentioned in the podcast can be found here: https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/finding-the-new-courageous-conversation-in-times-of-uncertainty-with-david-whyte/

54 - David Whyte: Finding the new courageous conversation in times of uncertainty

In 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause was leading a booming music career. A prodigiously talented musician and early master of the electronic synthesizer, Krause was busy working with artists like the Doors and the Beach Boys and performing iconic effects for blockbuster films. Then Warner Brothers commissioned him to create an album incorporating the sounds of wild habitats, so he headed into Muir Woods with his recording equipment. What he heard changed his life and triggered a fifty-year odyssey.

Then and there, Krause decided that he wanted spend the rest of his life recording and archiving the music of wild animals and wild places. He quit Hollywood and began traveling the world. The soundscapes he recorded were full of epiphanies about the origin of our own culture and music, about the profound connectedness of creatures, and about the unseen tolls of human activity. Previous wildlife recordings isolated the calls of individual creatures, but Krause recorded habitats as a whole. He soon proposed a new theory of ecosystem functioning: that each species produces unique acoustic signatures, partitioning and occupying sonic niches such that the singing of all of the creatures in a healthy ecosystem can be heard, organized like players in an orchestra. 

Today, Krause’s astonishing archive contains sounds made by more than 15,000 species. It is, as The New Yorker aptly put it, “an auditory Library of Alexandria for everything non-human." Fifty percent of the recorded habitats no longer exist due to habitat destruction, climate change, and human din. We spoke with Krause about the beauty of and perils facing wild music, the extraordinary science of soundscape ecology, and how sound impacts the welfare of animals. The music in this episode is from Wild Sanctuary (www.wildsanctuary.com).

David Whyte - Venturing Across the Unknown

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