EMF'S GUIDE TO BOOKS, CDS, DVDS, AND OTHER MATERIALS

Ear to the Earth

View: Bernie Kraus<br /><i>Wild Soundscapes</i>

Bernie Kraus
Wild Soundscapes

Bernie Krause' guide to field recording and listening.

CDe #: MB271

Publisher: Wilderness Press

List: $19


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View: Douglas Quin<br /><i>Caratinga</i>

Douglas Quin
Caratinga

Douglas Quin's exquisite soundscape recordings from the biological station of Caratinga in Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest

CDe #: EE306

Publisher: Earth Ear

List: $16


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View: Judy Klein<br /><i>The Wolves of Bays Mountain</i>

Judy Klein
The Wolves of Bays Mountain

Judy Klein's monumental documentary of the growls and songs of wolves offers a unique perspective of our wildlife environment.

CDe #: OS115

Publisher: Open Space

List: $16


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View: The Dreams of Gaia

The Dreams of Gaia

An excellent compilation, beautifully packaged, of soundscape compositions, some previously unavailable.

CDe #: EE301

Publisher: Earth Ear

List: $19


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View: Annea Lockwood<br /><i>A Sound Map of the Hudson River</i>

Annea Lockwood
A Sound Map of the Hudson River

Annea Lockwood records the Hudson River from its source in the Adirondack Mountains to the Lower Bay of New York City.

CDe #: LO120

Publisher: Lovely Music

List: $16


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View: Barry Truax<br /><i>Digital Soundscapes</i>

Barry Truax
Digital Soundscapes

Barry Truax's compositions, all of them technical and musical innovations.

CDe #: CG100

Publisher: Cambridge Street Publishing

List: $16


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View: Barry Truax<br /><i>Handbook For Acoustic Ecology</i>

Barry Truax
Handbook For Acoustic Ecology

Barry Truax has created an excellent teaching and research tool, one of the central texts pf the acoustic ecology movement.

CDe #: MD116

Publisher: Cambridge Street Publishing

List: $16


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View: Bill Fontana<br /><i>Australian Sound Sculptures</i>

Bill Fontana
Australian Sound Sculptures

Two works, composed many years apart, by environmental sound artist Bill Fontana.

CDe #: BL100

Publisher: Edition Block

List: $23


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View: Claude Schryer<br /><i>Autour</i>

Claude Schryer
Autour

Claude Schryer wrote, "I consider myself a child of the acoustic ecology ideology ...

CDe #: IM138

Publisher: Empreintes Digitales

List: $17


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View: David Dunn<br /><i>The Lion in which the Spirits of the Royal Ancesters Make Their Home</i>

David Dunn
The Lion in which the Spirits of the Royal Ancesters Make Their Home

David Dunn's field recordings of vernacular sounds in Zimbabwe, Africa.

CDe #: IL100

Publisher: Dunn

List: $16


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View: David Dunn<br /><i>The Sound of Light in Trees</i>

David Dunn
The Sound of Light in Trees

Sound artist David Dunn finds beauty in the small sounds of nature.

CDe #: EE311

Publisher: Earth Ear

List: $16


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View: David Lumsdaine<br /><i>Lake Emu</i>

David Lumsdaine
Lake Emu

This CD is part of the Australia Soundscape series.

CDe #: TP107

Publisher: Tall Poppies

List: $18


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View: David Lumsdaine<br /><i>Mutawinji</i>

David Lumsdaine
Mutawinji

This is an extraordinary Australian soundscape.

CDe #: TP106

Publisher: Tall Poppies

List: $18


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View: David Monacchi<br /><i>Prima Amazonia</i>

David Monacchi
Prima Amazonia

David Monacchi's audio portraits of the primary equatorial rainforest constitute a masterpiece of environmental recording.

CDe #: WS302

Publisher: Wild Sanctuary

List: $16


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View: David Rothenberg &amp; Douglas Quin<br /><i>Before the War</i>

David Rothenberg & Douglas Quin
Before the War

David Rothenberg and Douglas Quin create a new jazz built on the powerful soundscapes of a living Earth.

CDe #: EE302

Publisher: Earth Ear

List: $16


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View: David Rothenberg<br /><i>Unamuno</i>

David Rothenberg
Unamuno

David Rothenberg's chance encounters and improvisations with sounds around the world.

CDe #: NT104

Publisher: New Tone

List: $19


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View: David Rothenberg<br /><i>Why Birds Sing</i>

David Rothenberg
Why Birds Sing

David Rothenberg plays clarinets, overtone flute, and electronics with birds and humans.

CDe #: TN102

Publisher: Terra Nova

List: $16


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View: Day Of Sounds

Day Of Sounds

75 sounds recorded by 36 people on four continents during one day.

CDe #: EE307

Publisher: Earth Ear

List: $16


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View: Douglas Quin<br /><i>Forests: A Book of Hours</i>

Douglas Quin
Forests: A Book of Hours

A wonderful sonic journey through tropical forests around the world.

CDe #: EE300

Publisher: Earth Ear

List: $16


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View: Harangue I

Harangue I

A sampler with a great diversity of electroacoustic works including Hildegard Westerkamp's 'Talking Rain'.

CDe #: EA200

Publisher: Earsay

List: $16


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View: Hearing Place

Hearing Place

A fascinating compilation from the Australian Sound Design Project.

CDe #: MV302

Publisher: Move Records

List: $19


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View: Hildegard Westerkamp<br /><i>Transformations</i>

Hildegard Westerkamp
Transformations

Hildegard Westerkamp, leading composer of soundscapes, said, "I compose with any sound that the environment offers to the microphone ...

CDe #: IM127

Publisher: Empreintes Digitales

List: $17


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View: Interpreting the Soundscape

Interpreting the Soundscape

This CD accompanied Leonardo Music Journal 2006 titled 'Noises Off: Sound Beyond Music'.

CDe #: EM166

Publisher: EMF Media

List: $4


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View: J&uuml;rgen Br&auml;uninger<br /><i>Durban Noise and Scraps Works</i>

Jürgen Bräuninger
Durban Noise and Scraps Works

Living in South Africa, Jürgen Bräuninger uses sound to portray the world around him.

CDe #: GS200

Publisher: GSE

List: $16


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View: John Drever<br /><i>Cattle Grids of Dartmoor</i>

John Drever
Cattle Grids of Dartmoor

Field recordings by John Drever, made in Dartmoor National Park, Devon, South West England.

CDe #: DR202

Publisher: Drever

List: $12


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View: John Drever<br /><i>Phonographies: Glasgow, Frankfurt, Exeter</i>

John Drever
Phonographies: Glasgow, Frankfurt, Exeter

John Drever gleans material from urban and rural soundscapes to create place-oriented electroacoustic compositions.

CDe #: DR201

Publisher: Drever

List: $16


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View: Katharine Norman<br /><i>London</i>

Katharine Norman
London

Katharine Norman's 'London' is a portrait of the city drawn in lines and shadings of beautiful electronic sounds.

CDe #: NM101

Publisher: NMC

List: $19


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View: Luc Ferrari<br /><i>Far-West News</i>

Luc Ferrari
Far-West News

Far-West News Episodes 2 and 3 are parts of Luc Ferrari's three-part sonic travelogue.

CDe #: BC201

Publisher: Blue Chopsticks

List: $16


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View: Malcolm Goldstein<br /><i>The Seasons: Vermont</i>

Malcolm Goldstein
The Seasons: Vermont

Malcolm Goldstein's 'The Seasons: Vermont' (1982) is a soundscape of Vermont sounds in all of the seasons.

CDe #: XI118

Publisher: XI

List: $16


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View: Rik Rue<br /><i>Ocean Flows</i>

Rik Rue
Ocean Flows

Rik Rue, Australian sound artist, records sounds and creates soundscapes.

CDe #: TP103

Publisher: Tall Poppies

List: $18


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View: Ros Bandt<br /><i>Stack</i>

Ros Bandt
Stack

Ros Bandt weaves with sounds captured from a new 55-meter exhaust chimney in Melbourne, Australia.

CDe #: MV301

Publisher: Move Records

List: $19


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View: Scott Smallwood<br /><i>Desert Winds</i>

Scott Smallwood
Desert Winds

A striking group of soundscape compositions based on field recordings from around the world, by Scott Smallwood.

CDe #: DL109

Publisher: Deep Listening

List: $16


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View: Sound Polaroids

Sound Polaroids

City sounds made beautiful and coherent by Scanner and Tonne.

CDe #: BH101

Publisher: Bip-Hop

List: $18


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View: The Vancouver Soundscape

The Vancouver Soundscape

Sound portraits of the Vancouver soundscape in 1973 and 1996.

CDe #: CG104-2

Publisher: Cambridge Street Publishing

List: $24


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View: Thomas Gerwin<br /><i>Klangbilder Einer Stadt</i>

Thomas Gerwin
Klangbilder Einer Stadt

The title of this CD by Thomas Gerwin means 'Karlsruhe: Sound Pictures of a City'.

CDe #: ZK101

Publisher: Edition Modern

List: $19


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View: Thomas Gerwin<br /><i>Wattenmeer-Suite</i>

Thomas Gerwin
Wattenmeer-Suite

Thomas Gerwin composed this music, subtitled "An Environmental Sound Composition."

CDe #: IA101

Publisher: IAP

List: $19


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View: Whose Forest?

Whose Forest?

A compilation of music by several composers and sound artists making a strong pro-environment statement.

CDe #: HB100

Publisher: Hornblower

List: $15


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