Gordon Hempton Silence and the Presence of Everything
Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton collects sounds from around the world. He\u2019s recorded inside Sitka spruce logs in the Pacific Northwest, thunder in the Kalahari Desert, and dawn breaking across six continents. An attentive listener, he says silence is an endangered species on the verge of extinction. He defines real quiet as presence \u2014 not an absence of sound but an absence of noise. We take in the world through his ears.