#sounds #nature

In our modern world, it also seems that there has been a new awakening to the depth and diversity of the sounds of nature, intensified by environmental concerns and, in addition, by the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, which has made us aware of the daily riches that we could not have. value before.
"Our analysis has shown that natural sounds alone can confer health benefits... Natural acoustic environments offer indications of safety or an orderly world without danger, allowing control over mental states, reduction of stress-related behavior and mental recovery."
"Historically, composers have very often put birdsong in music, for different effects — but I think works like this are now, increasingly, the sound of a world under threat. As the climate crisis continues unabated, these melodies, to my ears, are sounding less like joyous celebrations of nature and more like threnodies—songs for the dead. So I felt like I had to find that feeling, that change in the music of the world,
The effects seem to unleash something innate and unsettling within Pan; and they also have nostalgic power in the real life of Atack, who grew up in Brazil ("these are the sounds of childhood; they are deeply comforting, but they also come with feelings that are difficult to undo, of the uncontrollable and dangerous").