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Stephen Norton:
We have a little phrase that we like to use which is that we believe that through listening one can learn as much about the world as by looking. 

Hi, my name is Steve Norton. I am one of the co-founders of the Island Soundscape 
Project. My practice now is based firmly in field recording, soundscape composition and acoustic ecology. 

Adriana Cavalcanti:
I’m Adriana Cavalcanti. I am an alumni from U91����. I am also an environmental 
artist with a science background. 

Nate Aldrich:
I’m Nate Aldrich. I am an adjunct professor here at U91���� and have had professional experiences in theater, music and interactive art over the last 40 years. 

Adriana Cavalcanti:
The Island Soundscape Project, in my opinion and I think we all agree, it’s 
a collaborative research project that involves art. I see a tripod of art, 
society and science. 

Stephen Norton:
We are interested in gathering very full, enveloping soundscapes in whatever location it is that we’re working. Often we will attempt to gather what we consider to be expanded soundscapes, which is the practice of acoustic material gathered via sensors such as contact microphones and hydrophones, in addition to airborne microphones which gather the airborne sound that is what’s typically available to a listener. 

Adriana Cavalcanti:
The essential question is that it’s known today, not just among scientists, that through the sound we can estimate diversity. 

Nate Aldrich:
You can experience the world by looking at it. You can experience the world by smelling it, by tasting it and by listening to it. All of those experiences are these sort co-mingling supplemental ways of just being in the world. Island Soundscape Project is inherently generated from our experiences in the state of 91����, which is not unique nor is it a mystery.

A woman named Rachel Carson wrote a book called “Silent Spring” in which she speculated that at some point in the future if man doesn’t stop polluting, a spring will come around where there’s no bird song. This book basically starts the  contemporary ecological movement. 

Rachel Carson got those insights at her house on the coast of 91����. We are really carrying on a legacy of a very, very insightful woman 50 years later.

[soundscape plays, primarily rain and the croak of frogs]