Jack Hines
Jack Hines is musician, environmental advocate, GIS technician, field- recordist, soundscape ecologist, and educator and an associate member of the Wild Sanctuary team. His deep understanding of sounds of the natural wild, their relationship to music, and to those of enhancing human health and wellness, make him a multi-talented leader in this field. Jack is currently producing a weekly short format radio segment called “Ear to the Wild” for KRCB radio 104.9 FM in Sonoma County, CA. This features soundscape recordings from the North Bay Area (north of San Francisco) where he lives.
In 2019 Jack was, along with Bernie Krause, the Atlantic Center for the Arts’ Inaugural Soundscape Artist in Residence at Canaveral National Seashore. In 2018 and 2019 he completed two extensive European field-recording explorations within Romania (REX) and the Scottish Highlands (S:HEX); collaborative projects with Wild Sanctuary, Missing Wolf, and Ear To The Wild. He is also a field representative of Wild Sanctuary’s NPO initiative - the Wild Sanctuary Soundscape Field Station Project, a network of independent and collaborative partners sharing natural soundscape awareness for science, art, education, and public outreach. A versatile and accomplished songwriter and musician, Jack is a vocalist, plays both electric and upright bass, viola da gamba, guitar, and piano, receiving a BA in Music from San Francisco State University in 1988. Performances include a tour to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Jack’s San Francisco Bay Area collaborations have ranged from Jazz to Brazilian to Afro-Cuban and Salsa styles, along with a variety of other performers, musical partners, and bands.
In 2004, he became a full-time music teacher working with at-risk adolescent boys at a large residential center in Sonoma, CA., producing concerts twice a year for 15 years, where he also led guided wilderness backpacking trips and day hikes. In this capacity, his skills with guided meditation, life coaching, wilderness awareness and ecology fostered new environmental connections and launched many related programs for his students. Under his own label, Jack has produced 6 albums, including: Howard Lake, Ledson Marsh, Magpie’s Song, Moab, Death Valley Oasis, and Pinyon Forest Dawn.