Gordon Hempton is an acoustic ecologist and Emmy
Award-winning sound recordist. For nearly 25 years he has
provided professional audio services to musicians, galleries,
museums, and media producers, including Microsoft, Smithsonian,
National Geographic, Discovery, National Public Radio, and numerous
other businesses and organizations. He has received recognition
from the Charles A. Lindbergh Fund, National Endowment for the
Arts, and the Rolex Awards for Enterprise.
He studied botany and plant pathology at the
University of Wisconsin. His sound portraits, which record quickly
vanishing natural soundscapes, have been featured in People
Magazine, a national PBS television documentary, "Vanishing Dawn
Chorus," which earned him an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Individual
Achievement.” Hempton has now circled the globe three times in
pursuit of environmental sound portraits. His new audio
series--Environmental Sound Portraits--is the first new work to
appear in more than a decade. He lives in Port Angeles, WA.
John Grossmann has been a freelance writer of magazine
articles and books for nearly all of his working career. He
has written on as wide a range of topics as implied by the
following list of magazines that have published his work: Air
& Space/Smithsonian, Audubon, Cigar Aficionado, Esquire, Geo,
Gourmet, Health, Inc., National Geographic Traveler, The New
York Times Magazine, Outside, Parade, Saveur, Smithsonian, Sports
Illustrated, and USA Weekend. He ghostwrote the 2006
book Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads (Ten Speed Press); and
before that wrote the 100-year history of one of the nation’s
oldest and most successful summer camps, YMCA Camp Belknap, which
he attended as a camper and leader and where his two sons have also
been campers and leaders.
“Interweaves his intriguing and instructive on-the-road adventures
with
fascinating and rarely addressed facts about sound, health, and
environment. Many books help us see the world differently; this
one
induces us to hear the world clearly.”—Booklist, Starred Review
“An important message.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Fascinating and disturbing.” —LA Times
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