Living With Nature

August 16, 2018 3:58 AM

A four-part BBC World Service documentary series based on listening to four different environments around the world. The first half-hour is The Sounds Of The Maasai Mara, in which wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson explores the sounds of the African Plains.

Part Two: The Sounds of the Nammib Desert

Part Three: The Sounds Of The Lofoten Islands

Part Four: The Sounds Of The Forest [Indian forest, featuring tigers]

posted by hippybear (6 comments total)

Awesome, thanks for this. I've got one of Chris Watson's field recording "albums". The sound of a cheetah purring is one of my favourite sounds.
posted by bigZLiLk at 6:11 AM on August 16, 2018

This looks great, thanks.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:25 AM on August 16, 2018

This is a nice consolation prize for the spectacular camera footage from Planet Earth II accompanied by squeezing the same box of corn starch for footsteps in snow they've been using for 60 years.
posted by Space Coyote at 6:31 AM on August 16, 2018 [4 favorites]

Awesome! I'm about to be in the air for 19 hours; this will make at least two of them pleasant to listen to!
posted by ChuraChura at 7:13 AM on August 16, 2018

Fun fact: Chris Watson was a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire :)
posted by hototogisu at 3:13 AM on August 22, 2018

Wait wait, what? you can't just come in nearly a week after the last comment and drop that on us!
posted by hippybear at 5:00 AM on August 24, 2018