For most of his life, Gordon Hempton has been in pursuit of nature’s myriad and multi-faceted soundscapes as an Emmy-winning acoustic ecologist. During that time, he has become a master of a skill that is inarguably a dying art: listening. In Being Hear he shares insights on the constant and nuanced communications of nature, the alarming extinction of places unaffected by human activity, the way quiet can open our eyes to the larger picture and the benefits of simply paying attention to place. Silence, as he puts it, “is the think tank of the soul."
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Directed, Produced, and Edited // Palmer Morse & Matthew Mikkelsen
Director of Photography // Palmer Morse
Sound Recording, Design, & Mixing // Matthew Mikkelsen
Additional Sound Recordings // "The Sound Tracker" Gordon Hempton
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