echoEscapes

learn first to listen_
with the dead, songs

listening to dead birdsong becomes
human beings, languages,
who never
have fallen silent

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"Huia Recording Harry Salmon and RAL Batley” in Whanganui Regional Museum, Aotearoa New Zealand, RAL Batley Archives 2011.117.1 MS 177 Box 18/20, November 2017
"Huia Recording Harry Salmon and RAL Batley” in Whanganui Regional Museum,  Aotearoa New Zealand, RAL Batley Archives

Original disc, Henare Hamana Huia Imitation, R.A.L. Batley Archives, Whanganui Regional Museum

EchoEscape #1:
Listening in
“The Place
Where You
Go To Listen”

Middlebury College Environmental Studies Colloquium Series
Middlebury, Vermont
November 1, 2018

 

Learning Extinct Birdsong
in the Anthropocene:
Huia Echoes

Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene
Robert Emmett, Gregg Mitman, and Marco Armiero (eds.)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
spelling correction Robert A.L. Batley

PDF

Noise-reduced audio edited/restored by
Mickey Houlihan (curveblue.com) & Joe Shepard

Echoes: In Five Miniatures

Livestream, at the
Anthropocene Slam: A Cabinet of Curiosities
The Nelson Institute Center for Culture, History, and Environment
Madison, Wisconsin
November 9, 2014

 

Nga Huruhuru Rangatira Robert Jahnke
Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand
October 2016

Hopes Echo

(interactive essay with audio).
The Poetry Lab
of The Merwin Conservancy
December 24, 2015