Musicians with outdoor microphones capture Alaska sounds
BELUGA POINT -- Maybe you've seen them, a seriously happy group of young adults with giant microphones capturing the sounds of Alaska.
They've been in Kenai Fjords National Park and at Beluga Point, on Flattop and on forest trails, recording the crack and grind of glacier ice, the frenzied feeding of humpback whales, the rush of a surging tide.
Matthew Burtner, a born-and-raised Alaskan who is a music professor at the University of Virginia with an international reputation for innovative work, started the EcoSono project four years ago. It now operates as a nonprofit organization that melds environmental preservation and creation of music that he calls "sound art." Read the full article here
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