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noted as being one of the most
dangerous predators in that
region.
”
While his recordings have
taken him into dangerous
grounds, he and his wife,
Katherine, endured the most
frightening encounter with
nature in 2017, when their
California home of 25 years
burned down among massive
fires, destroying treasured
possessions and biophonic
attractions along their extended
property.
While lamenting the loss of
field journals, slides dating back
a half-century and a Manouk
Papazian guitar he played at
Carnegie Hall among many
other keepsakes, Krause is grate-
ful that natural sound archives
survive.
Over 50 years, he collected
more than 5,000 hours of record-
ings of natural environments
including at least 15,000 terres-
trial and marine species from
around the world.
“During our dicey pre-dawn
flight, we came face-to-face with
the malevolent eye of global
heating and its horrific conse-
quences as we bolted through
the wall of fire that had envel-
oped our driveway — our sole
one-way path to whatever life
now remains to us,
” said Krause,
turning to new projects.
Readers can access his latest
book, The Power of Tranquility
in a Very Noisy World (Little,
Brown), which addresses the
issue of noise in complex sur-
roundings — how noise affects
health and well-being and what
can be done to mitigate the
problem.
Although Krause would like
to visit Israel, the trip would be
more personal than professional.
“Most of Israel’s habitats have
been so radically altered by
human endeavor that I really
can’t use the recordings for the
focus of my work,
” said the for-
mer Detroiter, whose outlook
also applies across America.
“I need to work in older, more
remote sites that express them-
selves as close to uncompro-
mised as possible.
“I think of natural sound-
scapes as narratives of place and
time. There’s a divinity to those
collective utterances that speaks
to me of the values and wonders
of the living world. Nothing, to
me, takes precedence. The stories
told to me through those utter-
ances are my window into what
is Divine in the universe.
”
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