Natural Noises

The World

Steve Curwood talks to recordist Peter Acker about the pleasures and challenges of capturing sound in the natural world. Acker says it’s getting more difficult to record nature without the noises of civilization intruding. He’s lobbying for noise-free areas to be set aside in national parks as refuges for nature’s sound

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