Bernie Krause (born December 8, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American … Read Full Bio ↴Bernie Krause (born December 8, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American bioacoustician, who coined the term "biophony". Krause holds a Ph.D. in bioacoustics from Union Institute in Cincinnati, and is remembered as the "Pied Piper" who lured a stray humpback whale from the Sacramento River Delta back to the Pacific Ocean, through the use of sounds.
In his previous career as a musician, he was a member of The Weavers, and was one of the first performers of the Moog Synthesizer in the 1960s. He formed Beaver & Krause with fellow synthesist Paul Beaver (who, with Krause, had played the instrument on a Monkees recording, "Star Collector"), to make electronic music featuring the Moog and other instruments. Because of their efforts in Hollywood, New York, and London, Beaver & Krause are largely credited with helping to introduce the synthesizer to pop music and film. From 1966 to 1972, Beaver & Krause released five albums, in total, which, among other musical contributions, were effectively the beginning of both the New Age and Electronica musical movements.
In November 1968, Krause demonstrated the Moog for Beatle, George Harrison, who was visiting California; a recording of the session became the basis of "No Time Or Space", a track featured on Harrison's Electronic Sound album the next year. Krause also provided soundtrack music and/or natural soundscapes for Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, Dr. Doolittle, and Apocalypse Now, "Duma," and "Where the Wild Things Are."
Krause's 1970 album (recorded in 1968 and '69) with Paul Beaver In a Wild Sanctuary – the first of three albums they did for Warner Bros. Records – was the first to incorporate natural soundscapes as an inherent component of the orchestration and to address the theme of ecology. During the late '80s, Krause recorded and composed a highly acclaimed and successful series of environmental titles for The Nature Company. He continues to record in the field and produce 3-D soundscapes for public spaces, and natural sound titles that can be found on the Wild Sanctuary web site.
In his previous career as a musician, he was a member of The Weavers, and was one of the first performers of the Moog Synthesizer in the 1960s. He formed Beaver & Krause with fellow synthesist Paul Beaver (who, with Krause, had played the instrument on a Monkees recording, "Star Collector"), to make electronic music featuring the Moog and other instruments. Because of their efforts in Hollywood, New York, and London, Beaver & Krause are largely credited with helping to introduce the synthesizer to pop music and film. From 1966 to 1972, Beaver & Krause released five albums, in total, which, among other musical contributions, were effectively the beginning of both the New Age and Electronica musical movements.
In November 1968, Krause demonstrated the Moog for Beatle, George Harrison, who was visiting California; a recording of the session became the basis of "No Time Or Space", a track featured on Harrison's Electronic Sound album the next year. Krause also provided soundtrack music and/or natural soundscapes for Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, Dr. Doolittle, and Apocalypse Now, "Duma," and "Where the Wild Things Are."
Krause's 1970 album (recorded in 1968 and '69) with Paul Beaver In a Wild Sanctuary – the first of three albums they did for Warner Bros. Records – was the first to incorporate natural soundscapes as an inherent component of the orchestration and to address the theme of ecology. During the late '80s, Krause recorded and composed a highly acclaimed and successful series of environmental titles for The Nature Company. He continues to record in the field and produce 3-D soundscapes for public spaces, and natural sound titles that can be found on the Wild Sanctuary web site.
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HalfDayHero
This is the best talk I have seen and I feel this line of work/study should be much, much better known. Really invaluable work.
Bruce Gwynn
Stuart, check his interview out on June 15 1973 about a movie and album he'd done with his partner on nes perse tribe
Miro Pribanić
listening to Bernie Krause makes me very very sad since it shows me what we have lost in our human greed to expand, build, rule and dominate. Yet, it is the reality of our world. One day , people will flock to museums - or to internet web pages - to hear true nature's sounds. Mr. Krause is not only a nature lover but also a philosopher and ethnologist, who in his work elaborates on how we - in the industrialized countries - have lost the appreciation of the auditory sense, as visual perception dominates.
Tragically, in 2017 a large amount of his archived material together with his equipment got lost in a wildfire in California.
graemebr
Thank you, Bernie. The call of the bereaved beaver was indeed heat-breaking.
For me, the most poignant sound I ever heard was of rhino that had ben attacked and its horn removed with a machete.
For days it had been suffering, and its cry haunts me still.
Thank you.
Ian Yeubrey
I've only just today discovered that your work even exists. But I can already see the enormous value of this. I think what you are doing is not only wonderful - but vital, for our understanding of human impact upon the environment. Please. Keep up the good work.
Shubham Gawde
We need more such "nature" ted talks.
ClimateChange12.com
@ 10:50 ... A most haunting, poignant story and sound one might ever hear... the utterly heartbreaking cries of an inconsolable, beaver father.
Quote from Bernie Krause regarding the loss of wilderness and the wild creatures:
"A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening. Little by little the vast orchestra of life, the chorus of the natural world, is in the process of being quietened. There has been a massive decrease in the density and diversity of key vocal creatures, both large and small. The sense of desolation extends beyond mere silence."
Lucy Cowan
We tend to be so visual as a species but sound is a much more profound experience so yes we need more of this way of communicating about the real world (as opposed to man-made) of which we are all part .
Mohit Garg
I cried for the first time today after my father died in 2003. The sentence: "Fully 50% of my archive comes from habitats so radically altered that they are either altogether silent or could no longer be heard in any of their original form" moved me to tears!
Les voix de la nature par Chiff-Chaff
Bernie Krause, un homme qui écoute et enregistre la nature et qui est fort intéressant à écouter...