Africa Safari: Madagascar

Douglas Quinn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 2003)
• Original Release Date: January 1, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B000088NLI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #874,158 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ranomafana: Mountain Rainforest

2. Spiny Desert

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

Douglas Quin, Ph.D., is a world-renowned sound designer, naturalist, public radio commentator, and music composer. He has traveled widely documenting the natural soundscape - from Antarctic ice to Arctic tundra and from African savannah to Amazon rainforest. His pioneering work has received recognition and support from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bernie Krause; Renowned naturalist and sound designer Dr. Bernie Krause has traveled the world capturing the soundscapes of exotic natural environments. Dr. Krause began his groundbreaking work in bioacoustics and environmental recording in the late 1960’s, and much of his work has been accomplished with techniques and technologies that he personally developed. His "In A Wild Sanctuary" (1970) recording earned a place in history as being the first recording to use environmental sounds as both a central component of orchestration and as a statement about the environment.

Dr. Krause’s diverse achievements include 10 recordings for The Nature Company that have enjoyed over $24 million in gross sales over a period of 6 years. Development of the audio technology innovation known as the Intelligent Show System (for public exhibitions and installations), and his Music and Word Series of spoken word documents that include "Ishi – The Last Yahi." Dr. Krause recently published the book "Wild Soundscapes" (2002) that includes a full-length CD featuring a sampling of natural sounds.

Product Description

AFRICAN SAFARI: MADAGASCAR

One of the last remaining pockets of mountain rainforest in eastern Madagascar, Ranomafana is noted for its unique diversity and high degree of endemic lemur species including the avahi, brown lemur, lesser mouse lemur, as well as many species of birds. Likewise, Berenty, which lies in the southernmost part of Madagascar, is surrounded by spiny desert, mixed scrub and deciduous forest that is unique in the world for both its special vegetation and rare birds and mammals such as the ring-tailed lemur, grey gentle lemur, Verreaux’s sifaka, and the weasel lemur.

AFRICAN SAFARI: MADAGASCAR. Doug Quin is one of the more intrepid and talented natural wildlife recordists, as this thoroughly engaging CD will attest. Recording in Madagascar is not an easy task. Between the leeches and the weather, one is very lucky to capture the magic Quin portrays so eloquently in these two soundscapes. To get these recordings requires days of trekking through difficult terrain to record shy and elusive creatures (if, indeed, they are vocal at all), and lots of epic patience.