In this article, David Dunn really makes you think about sounds of nature and the biology of nature itself. He relates art and music together, which makes sense, yet proves that our auditory senses are much stronger than our visual. Then again they both work together and are necessary for our survival. He brings up the point of humans and each animal being different in there surrounding and a frog or a lion are all experiencing different sounds and visions than humans and we don't really think about that stuff. I also really liked his experimentation with the mockingbird and I even looked up videos of mockingbird sounds. You forget or just don't think about things like that, that a mockingbird is exactly its name, a bird that mocks the sounds around it. It spoke to me and kind of made me sad when Dunn talked about how he was getting soundscapes of natural, nonhuman habitats and the difficulties he was experiencing. How even if he was in Africa, which you would think is the most nonhuman, animalistic place to record nature sound, there were background sounds of a highway being built for trucking routes. He explains that, "All of the sounds I recorded were clearly problematic and contradictory. They were recordings of the current reality of social and environmental change and not representations of a fantasy Africa that no longer exists." This really makes one think, just by listening to the sounds of nature around them, that the manmade sounds are coming into play everywhere and the sounds of pure nature are going extinct.
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