Tuesday evening, February 14th, 2017 the Linnaean Society of New York 2016-17 Speaker Program will feature two presentations:
6:00 pm — Making Music from the Sounds of Nature – Ben Mirin Ben Mirin is a sound artist and television presenter who records wildlife and composes music from the sounds of nature. His talk will present music as a medium for celebrating biodiversity and engaging people from all walks of life with the natural world. Mirin will perform music made from wildlife sounds he has recorded with colleagues in the scientific community and local artists in India, Madagascar, and a wide range of ecosystems around the world. He will discuss the process behind his work, how it dovetails with scientific research, and how the music works to inspire conservation at a local level. To further understand their impact, we will experience the music alongside film and photography of Mirin’s ongoing efforts with National Geographic, The Safina Center, and other organizations to create anthems to our natural heritage around the world. 7:30 pm — Seeing sounds: New Ways to Identify Birds by Ear – Nathan Pieplow The ability to identify birds by ear is crucially important to experienced birders. For years, gaining this ability has required a long, slow process of memorizing sounds. But the forthcoming Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds aims to change all that. In this talk, author Nathan Pieplow will introduce the concepts behind the field guide and teach expert skills in listening to bird sounds, reading spectrograms, and visualizing sounds. He will share some of the thousands of recordings he has made over more than a decade as a sound recordist, and the insights he has gained from his efforts to standardize the way we talk about, think about, and listen to bird sounds. Pieplow teaches writing and rhetoric at the University of Colorado, Boulder. An avid bird sound recordist, he is the author of the bird sound blog Earbirding.com as well as the upcoming Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds. He is an author of the Colorado Birding Trail, former board member of the Colorado Field Ornithologists, and former editor of the journal Colorado Birds. Both presentations are free and will be held in the Linder Theater on the first floor of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Enter at West 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. All welcome! Complete details of these exciting presentations and the rest of the 2016-2017 program can be found here: http://linnaeannewyork.org/calendar-programs-trips/programs2016-2017.html <http://linnaeannewyork.org/calendar-programs-trips/programs2016-2017.html> Richard Fried The Linnaean Society of New York -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --