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Another pair of wayward whales have strayed from San Francisco Bay into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Dr. Krause is ready to add his soundscape skill to the rescue efforts.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
16 May 2007
Save the Whales!: Nature sound expert to lead lost whales out of Sacramento Delta
It’s been 20 years since Wild Sanctuary’s Bernie Krause was first summoned to help ‘save the whales’. He certainly succeeded when ‘Humphrey the humpback whale’ headed up a delta slough at Rio Vista and needed some help with directions to get back toward the Pacific. After nearly a month of the whale’s wanderings, it was Krause’s expertise that offered up the underwater sounds of whales feeding that finally lured the lost whale home. Swimming 50 miles in just seven hours, Humphrey followed Krause’s pre-recorded sounds all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Another pair of wayward whales have strayed from San Francisco Bay into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Dr. Krause is ready to add his soundscape skill to the rescue efforts.
We’ve gotten the go-ahead to proceed with a rescue plan along the lines of Humphrey," Krause stated.
”We are currently gathering up our gear and preparing the audio recordings of whales calling while feeding in Alaska, so we’re ready to respond.”
Krause has spent over 40 years collecting more than 3,500 hours of sound recordings of more that 15,000 creature voices from habitats around the world, including deserts, mountains, and marine environments. His Wild Sanctuary Audio Archive is the largest privately-held collection of natural sound recordings in private hands. Wild Sanctuary, his Glen Ellen, California-based office provides these sounds for science, the arts, and outreach.
Bio-acoustician Krause, and his Wild Sanctuary team, believe that soundscape is a vital indicator of habitat health, creature density, global warming, and other significant conditions, and can reveal important data that is only just beginning to be understood.
“The creature world is trying to tell us something,” Krause stated. “If we only take the time, and make the effort to listen, we might find out some really helpful details.”
By Thursday, Krause, plans on being able to set out on a boat and begin the underwater audio performance with speakers provided by the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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Company Notes:
Wild Sanctuary is home to the largest
Privately-held archive of natural sound, anywhere.
Our worldwide collection represents over 3,500 hours of wild soundscapes and nearly 15,000 creatures. The mission: To help connect people to the wild by preserving, presenting, and protecting the voice of the natural world. We provide complete content, sound design, and media services for all types and styles of public space installations, multimedia and interactive exhibitry, web-based environments, new media, film and video production and more.
Contact:
Press Information contact: Katherine Krause, Vice President/PIO, Wild Sanctuary, (707) 996-6677 (office) (707) 327-6770 (cell) or kkrause@wildsanctuary.com.
Wild Sanctuary, Inc.
PO Box 536
Glen Ellen, CA
95442
707-996-6677
Visit the website at:
http://www.wildsanctuary.com
Photo Notes:
• Photos available upon request.
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