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Sound Escapes
by BirdNote
Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist known as the Sound Tracker, has mastered the art of truly listening. In this podcast, he shares soundscapes that will immerse you in incredible places and help you become a better listener.
Episodes
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Our Solar-Powered Jukebox
In the season finale of Sound Escapes, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton takes us on a whirlwind tour of nearly every habitat on the planet. From tropical forests to deserts to wetlands, you'll hear what the Earth truly is: music spinning in an otherwise silent space. Thank you for joining us on...
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Mark Twain's Limpid Brook
“By modern standards, Mark Twain was really a switched-on listener,” says our Sound Escapes host, Gordon Hempton. “He brilliantly used sound in the crafting of his novels. Birds would sing at the right time of day and in the right situations. He would use thunderstorms to mark the locations of…
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Song of the Paddle
After a long winter in northern Minnesota, everything seems to awaken at once. From the songs of migratory birds to the croaks of frogs and toads, we can witness a wonderful rejuvenation. In this episode of Sound Escapes, paddle a canoe through Voyageurs National Park alongside Gordon Hempton…
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The Poetics of Space
This week’s episode of Sound Escapes takes us to Pipestone Canyon in Eastern Washington, where you can hear a ridgetop wind come from a mile away. Here, you can not only listen to coyotes in the distance, but also how the coyote waves as it passes through the canyon: a form of dimensional...
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Kalahari Sunrise
In this week’s episode of Sound Escapes, experience dawn in the Kalahari Desert as the sun rises over the sandy savannah of southern Africa. It’s nearly level at this part of the Kalahari Desert. The trees are widely spaced. There’s almost no available water. You cannot see very far — the heat...
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John Muir's Yosemite
“Water makes every sound imaginable and occupies every frequency audible to the human ear and certainly spans the dynamic range from the faintest sound to near distortion,” says Gordon Hempton, the Sound Tracker. The writings of John Muir can guide our ears, as we listen to the water music: “The...
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Amazon Awakenings
The world's first wilderness quiet park was certified at Ecuador's Zabalo River in 2019. In this episode of Sound Escapes, you'll hear sounds recorded by Gordon Hempton, the Sound Tracker, at Zabalo River Wilderness Quiet Park — deep inside the Amazon. Gordon calls this place a living Eden. "And...
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Songs of Spring
"Olympic National Park has taught me that it's possible to not only love a place, but love a place deeply at first listen," says Gordon Hempton. "And spring is when Olympic is at its most musical." Delight in the sounds of Pacific Chorus Frogs, the Varied Thrush, grouse, and many more. ID the…
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Nightfall on the Zabalo
Today we’re visiting the Zabalo River in Ecuador. It’s a completely undisturbed ecosystem, where all the creatures we hear are all native to the land, and have coexisted and continued to evolve together for thousands of years. No animal is stepping on the communications of another animal. No two...
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Cold Lake Amphitheater
A great place to listen to insects — and birds — is a remote mountain lake in the spring. The surrounding mountians and properties of the cold water make these lakes some of nature's great concert halls. Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist and sonic guide for the this series, recorded the…
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Riot of Music
The young Samuel Langhorne Clemens - later known as Mark Twain - signed on to train as a pilot on a Mississippi riverboat when he was just 22. He quickly discovered that if he volunteered for the early morning shift, he could experience one of the most incredible musical shows there is. View this...
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Land Between the Lakes
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a massive inland peninsula, bordered by sections of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers that were permanently flooded as a part of FDR’s New Deal. Humans changed this landscape, but now birds have claimed it - and they are flourishing. View this...
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The Auditory Horizon
Today we head to Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan, just a few miles north of the Canada/US border. We'll hear a prairie dawn chorus — complete with coyotes. Today he’s taking us to Saskatchewan’s Grasslands National Park, just a few miles north of the Canada/US border. As you’re…
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The Song of the Big Island
Take a carbon-free journey to Hawaii in the second episode of Sound Escapes. The Song of the Big Island takes us from the waves on the beach to deep within the Hawaiian rainforest. View this episode's Bird List BirdNote is an independent nonprofit media production company. Your dollars make it...
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Relearn the Art of Listening
Gordon Hempton has spent his life recording the sounds of the natural world, from the rainforest of Hawai’i to the vast dry prairies of North America. Then, one morning, he woke up to silence. Ever since his first sudden encounter with hearing loss, Gordon has made it his mission to share the art...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist known as the Sound Tracker, has mastered the art of truly listening. In this podcast, he shares soundscapes that will immerse you in incredible places and help you become a better listener.
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How many episodes does Sound Escapes have?
Sound Escapes currently has 15 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist known as the Sound Tracker, has mastered the art of truly listening. In this podcast, he shares soundscapes that will immerse you in incredible places and help you become a better listener.
How often does Sound Escapes release new episodes?
Sound Escapes has 15 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Sound Escapes is created and hosted by BirdNote.
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