The Last of the Nightingales | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00While a picture may be worth a thousand words, a soundscape is worth a thousand pictures.

00:20And we can always frame a shot with a camera so that it looks just right, like you're doing

00:25right now, but you cannot fool the ear that way.

00:44There have been a number of attempts at defining what it is that I do.

00:48One of the older attempts was the idea of acoustic ecology, although I started at that

00:54point where we were recording individual sounds, taking them out of context.

00:59It wasn't something that I was interested in.

01:01I heard the natural world as a symphony of sound, much more holistically, and that's

01:07why I began to record, that's why I've been recording ever since.

01:12In the work that I've done, what I've found after 30 years of recording in the field was

01:18that when I listened back to my library and wanted to go back to many places that I had

01:22previously recorded, they weren't there anymore.

01:25The habitats had changed so radically that they were either altogether silent or just

01:31completely unrecognizable in terms of their soundscape.

01:37I'm losing my favorite things that tie me to the living world.

01:46Everything is beginning to indicate to us, especially through this work that I'm doing,

01:52that our planet is becoming remarkably quiet.