Bernie Krause holds a Ph.D. in Creative Arts with an internship in Bioacoustics, and was a key figure in implementing natural soundscapes as a resource for the U.S. National Park Service, authoring the educational soundscape manual for the agency that resulted in a recent book/CD, Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of Natural World (Wilderness Press, 2002). In 2006, under the auspices of U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the Calgary Zoo, Google, Stanford, Harvard Universities, the University of Utah, and several other institutions, he led three teams to capture the first natural soundscape examples ever recorded in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Until recently, he served on the board of Harvard’s Institute for Music and Brain Science.

Krause lives with his wife, Katherine (Kat) in Sonoma, California. His book, The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places, was published by Little Brown (Hachette) in 2012.

"I'm fortunate to be blinded by the enthusiasm of the young folks I work with whenever I can. In moments of being in a richly textured environment, I have hope it will all come back regardless of us and what we do. Or, maybe people who can hear it will finally understand what it is we have been missing all along and will rally to restore some lost quality of life. That's partly the reason I produce the CDs from various places I've been. I hope someone will get their collective butts outside and listen for themselves. Yet, people have come to our house from the city and have been terrified by the silence here. They complain they can't sleep because it is too quiet!" Bernie Krause

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