Cover artwork by Daniel Liévano
When the Earth Started to Sing
Produced by Emergence Magazine, this sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth.
The experience is made entirely of tiny trembling waves in air, the fugitive, ephemeral energy that we call sound. Spoken words combined with terrestrial sounds invite our senses and imaginations to go outward into an experience of the living Earth and its history. How did the vast and varied chorus of modern sounds — from forest to oceans to human music — emerge from life’s community? When did the living Earth first start to sing? We invite you on a journey into deep time and deep sound that will open your ears and your imagination.
Find many more stories exploring the intersection between ecology, culture and spirituality at emergencemagazine.org/
David Haskell’s new book: Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
Credits
This episode was originally published by Emergence Magazine
It was written and narrated by David George Haskell, with sound design and mixing by Matthew Mikkelsen, additional sound design, music, and paleo-soundscape reconstruction by Jonathan Kawchuk, dialogue editing by Cass Medcalf, and was produced by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee. It featured mammoth-ivory flute playing by Anna Friederike Potengowski on an instrument made by Wulf Hein, Violin composition and performance by Katherine Lehman, and Underwater sound recordings by Ocean Networks Canada