An evocative museum exhibition from a legendary electronic musician and naturalist encourages audiences to connect with nature through a 'great animal orchestra.'
and became a force in the burgeoning field of electronic music. With musician Paul Beaver, he helped introduce Moog synthesizers to popular music and film.
"We did a lot of work with major groups — with The Doors, the Byrds, The Monkees. We did work with George Harrison, Frank Zappa," Krause recalls. Krause's film work includes classics such as. He programmed much of the latter's score and worked on its memorable"Ride of the Valkyries" scene."Shirley Walker actually played the keyboard. I'm not a great keyboardist," he says.
Before Paul Beaver died in 1975 of a brain hemorrhages while giving a concert in Los Angeles, he worked with Krause on a pioneering album called"Paul refused to go outside to record, which left that task to me," Krause says."And I was terrified of animals. I grew up in a home in the Midwest that didn't allow dogs or cats or a goldfish. That was dangerous to my mom. Germs and all of that. I wanted to get over that fear.
So one autumn afternoon, Krause toted a still-new portable analog recorders to a heavily wooded public park north of San Francisco. His life was forever altered when he slipped on his headphones, took a breath and focused on the sounds of nature."It wasn't noise," he explains."It was a collection of sounds that felt so good that I just relaxed immediately."
"This is the tuning of the great animal orchestra, a revelation of the acoustic harmony of the wild, the planet's deeply connected expression of natural sounds and rhythm."Krause felt affirmed, soothed, awakened. In the late 1970s, he earned a Ph.D.
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