Issue #3 - July 2007
Catalogue Highlight -
Each month we will be featuring one of our nature CD titles at a special price: Aust$16.50 (Overseas (non-Australian) orders, ex-tax, converts to approx. US$11.65, 9.00 Euro or £6.20).
July 2007:
Call of the Ocean
August 2007:
The Experience of Uluru
Next Issue:
Our Nature
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Stay tuned for an announcement and some celebratory special offers!
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Published by Listening Earth,
© 2007
Listening Earth
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Victoria 3450
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Listening Earth in the Highlands!
We've
been delaying this newsletter in the hopes of being able to announce
our new online shop. However technology - the vaguaries of php coding
and payment gateway modules - has slowed us down. Ah well, give us a
few more weeks and we hope to have an annoucement!
When our new shop is ready for action, you will be able to purchase downloads of all our albums, with immediate download, and of course new tracks and albums which we will be adding as time goes on.
In addition, I am rebuilding our website to integrate albums, sound samples and galleries of images. This will create a rich audiovisual presentation for each of our albums, so you'll be immersed in the sights and sounds of natural environments.
So this will be a new chapter for Listening Earth - something to look forward to!
In the meantime, our current shop is available for mail order CD purchases, with upcoming special offers highlighted on the left.
This issue, our feature article comes from our friend Richard Sullivan, who shares his experience of sound recording with us in Bandipur National Park in India. Richard and Prue are our neighbours and dear friends, and it was a priviledge to share the first half of our recent 3 month field trip in India with them. Richard is a keen observer, both of people and nature, and his insights make an entertaining counterpoint to our own.
I've included a short soundscape from Bandipur as well. We have some nice recordings from there, and anticipate being able to offer a Bandipur album for download once our new shop is online. So consider this a taster!
We also have images of the Scottish Highlands, from our brief visit to the UK in 2002. Andrew's family heritage comes from this part of the world (with a bit of Norwegian Viking in the mists of the past), so it was wonderful to walk among these wild landscapes. The Highlands really are extraordinarily beautiful - subtle, dramatic and ever-changing. For us as Australians, they seemed so completely unlike what we are used to, and yet we felt very much at home there. (The landscapes anyway, Scottish food we found universally appalling, and no, we didn't even dare try the haggis!). So pull your collar tight, and join us for a desktop tour to those wild heathered moors, forests and hillsides.
Best wishes, Sarah and Andrew
In this issue:
- Feature: India Diary pt.2 - Bandipur
- Scottish Highland Image Gallery
- Bandipur National Park soundscape
Feature:
India Diary pt.2 Bandipur
Listening and watching with Andrew and Sarah in India, by Richard Sullivan
http://www.listeningearth.com.au/newsletters/2007_07_feature.htm
Scottish Highland Image Gallery
Download these as a zip file, for either regular screen (1024x768) or widescreen
(1680x1050) format. (Use a decompression program like Stuffit Expander
to decompress the file into a folder of jpeg images.)
Scotland1024x768.zip
Scotland1680x1050.zip
Bandipur National Park soundscape
Langur monkeys and a lone elephant are heard among a chorus of morning
birdsong at Bandipur forest.
http://www.listeningearth.com.au/newsletters/2007_07_Images/Bandipur.mp3