One For The Pot
Climate change is going to transform everything we know. There are plenty of things we modern humans think of as “traditional” which […]
Category: Soundscapes
Salty as Your Tears
The Aral Sea is one of the largest saline lakes in the world, and a fascinating part of the geography of Central […]
India Breaks New Ground!
The world’s largest solar array is in progress in India: Four gigawatts of generating capacity, set up in Sambhar district in the […]
These People Will Survive
In the heart of the Amazon rainforest is the Tapajos River basin, home to the Munduruku people. This indigenous tribe has around […]
Saturday’s Endangered Music: The Canary Islands
Any survey of the Canary Islands’ soundscape must begin, not with the Islands’ wonderful musical traditions, but with the Silbo Gomero, the […]
Bad News From Australia
Australia is getting hot. Really, really hot. Hot enough that the Australian Open tennis tournament has been suspended; it was hot enough […]
Saturday’s Endangered Music: Ghana
I began studying Ghanaian music with David Locke in 1979, and even though I never went as deeply into the music as […]
The Pygmies of Cameroon
Africa is an entire musical universe, and I could show you stuff for hours. But some of the most beautiful and emotionally […]
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ’till It’s Gone — The Tony Schwartz Exchange Tape
In the 1970s, I lived in group houses with a lot of interesting people. One of them had inherited an assortment of […]
In New Orleans, Music Is A Climate Issue — And Climate Is A Music Issue!
Over the four years of the Climate Letter Project, I had relatively few opportunities to link climate and music, despite the many […]