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contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix david rothenberg, Introduction: Does Nature Understand Music? 1 i. Roots of the Listening hazrat inayat khan, The Music of the Spheres 13 rainer maria rilke, Primal Sound 21 john cage, Happy New Ears 25 john cage, Diary: Emma Lake Music Workshop 1965 30 tim hodgkinson, An Interview with Pierre SchaeVer 34 evan eisenberg, Deus ex Machina 45 r. murray schafer, Music and the Soundscape 58 tsai chih chung, The Music of the Earth 69 ii. Wild Echoes rafi zabor, from The Bear Comes Home 77 steve lacy, Sax Can Moo . . . 81 russell sherman, from Piano Pieces 84 jaron lanier, Music, Nature, and Computers: A Showdown 91 david dunn, Nature, Sound Art, and the Sacred 95 david james duncan, My One Conversation with Collin Walcott 108 michael ondaatje, from Coming through Slaughter 116 iii. The Landscape of Sound steve erickson, from Rubicon Beach 121 claude schryer, The Sharawadji EVect 123 pauline oliveros, Sonic Images 131 pauline oliveros, The Poetics of Environmental Sound 133 brian eno, Ambient Music 139 hildegard westerkamp, Speaking from Inside the Soundscape 143 douglas quin, Toothwalkers 153 francisco lópez, Blind Listening 163 david toop, from Exotica 169 robert schneider, from Brother of Sleep 177 iv. Many Natures, Many Cultures john luther adams, The Place Where You Go to Listen 181 toru takemitsu, Nature and Music 183 steven feld, Lift-Up-Over Sounding 193 eric salzman, Sweet Singer of the Pine Barrens 207 bernie krause, Where the Sounds Live 215 junichiro tanizaki, from “A Portrait of Shunkin” 225 v. The Disc of Music and Nature 231 The Disc of Music and Nature is now a virtual CD available at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/musicandnaturecd Contributors 249 Permissions 253 Index 255 [ vi ] [ vi ] ...