In the realm of acoustic ecology, Dr. Bernie Krause is arguably the foremost authority on natural soundscapes and recording them in the field. He has the largest private repository of intact recorded natural, primary, environments and has detailed extensively in his books The Great Animal Orchestra and Voices of the Wild, the importance of preserving natural soundscapes, not only for their inherent ecological value, but as an integral aspect of humanities cultural heritage. Krause’s contribution to soundscape study includes the ‘niche hypothesis’, arguing that natural soundscapes co-evolve with organisms creating acoustic niches over time in their environment. This theory brings interesting questions into the natural “orchestration” of sound
