NPR

Nature has a mixtape. The U.N. hopes young people will listen to it

When London-based hip hop artist Louis VI looked at social media over the past few years, he kept seeing the same image: orange skies from wildfire smoke. "It was one of those strange, eerily ...
Grist

Inside the movement to recognize nature as an artist

Have you ever listened to a recording of birdsong? Or ocean waves? The howling of wolves, or thunder and rain? If you have, did you ever wonder whether nature was getting any compensation for ...
Jambands

Listen: Brian Eno Updates David Bowie’s “Get Real” with Nature Sounds

Three days out from Earth Day, Brian Eno has unveiled a new mix of David Bowie’s “Get Real,” adorning the deep cut with a chorus of natural sounds. Delivered as part of the Sounds Right initiative, ...
Mashable

Spotify recognises Nature as an artist

Birds chirping in the forest, waves crashing in the ocean, and the sound of thunderstorms are some of nature's beloved symphonies. These sounds are inseparable from the human experience not only as ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Brilliant Folk Musician Turned the Natural Sounds of the Blue Ridge Mountains Into Powerful Songs

Daniel Bachman at home in Madison County, Virginia, with his trusty Martin D-18 guitar. Aldona Dye In early 2020, Daniel Bachman stood at the edge of a creek in Falmouth, Virginia, recording the ...
NPR

Meet the artists behind the U.N.'s second annual nature sounds mixtape

It's Earth Day — and Mother Nature is back with a new mixtape. Last year, the Museum for the United Nations - UN Live launched Sounds Right, an initiative where artists release songs with nature ...
Business Wire

NTT Study: Artificial Neural Networks for Recognizing Natural Sounds Exhibit Human-Like Responses

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Akira Shimada, President & CEO; hereinafter "NTT") has discovered that artificial neural ...