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Toward a Dark Nature Recording

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

David Michael
David Michael*
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Abstract

Nature sound recording has long been criticised for the artifice of the documents it produces. Joining this easy target is the implication that the form's aesthetic frame, which often intends to promote our connection to nature, actually serves to disconnect us. This paper reviews critiques of nature sound recording and suggests that by confronting what it excludes from ‘nature’, the form might yet come to terms with ecology.

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Research Article
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Organised Sound , Volume 16 , Issue 3: Sound, Listening and Place I , December 2011 , pp. 206 - 210
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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