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DISCID=640e7d08
DTITLE=Gordon Hempton, Sound Tracker / Africa, Desert Solitude 
DTITLE=at Bushman Fountain
DYEAR=
DGENRE=
TTITLE0=Dry Winds of Kalahari
TTITLE1=Evening Lizards
TTITLE2=Insect Solo
TTITLE3=Thunder and Silence
TTITLE4=Dawn
TTITLE5=Questions
TTITLE6=Solitude
TTITLE7=Eye of the Fountain
EXTD=Africa, Desert Solitude at Bushman Fountain\nNature Record
EXTD=ings, Quiet Places Collection\nGordon Hempton, The Sound T
EXTD=racker\n\nTitled selections are actual events presented in
EXTD= "real time" without mixing. However, selections do overla
EXTD=p briefly. Listed times are actual lengths of selections, 
EXTD=including transitions. Stereo speaker listening produces e
EXTD=nhanced depth of field. Headphone listening creates an amp
EXTD=hitheater of three dimensions.\n\nNature Recordist: Gordon
EXTD= Hempton, The Sound Tracker\nDigitally recorded on locatio
EXTD=n in Binaural Stereo\nPost-Production: Ilbert Swanson, Sea
EXTD=ttle, WA\nExecutive Producer: Richard Hooper\nAssociate Pr
EXTD=oducer: Sharon Hooper\nGraphic Design: Laura Eagan\nPhotog
EXTD=raphy: Lee Mann (Acacia Tree)\n\nNature Recordings\nProduc
EXTD=ed and Distributed by World Disc Productions\nP.O.Box 2749
EXTD=. Friday Harbor. WA 98250 (206) 378-3979\n1992 World Disc 
EXTD=Productions.  All Rights Reserved.
EXTT0=The Kalahari Desert is a place of extremes. Thunder and s
EXTT0=ilence dominate the hot, dry soundscape. Nowhere else hav
EXTT0=e I been as tortured by thirst. The shaping force of the 
EXTT0=Kalahari is drought, which is amplified by the Dry Winds.
EXTT0=\n
EXTT1=Lizards do very well, and the evening is often filled wit
EXTT1=h their chorus.\n
EXTT2=This is a strange land with unexpected events - the promi
EXTT2=se of water rumbles in the sky while an insect, perhaps a
EXTT2= katydid, performs a solo.\n
EXTT3=Each time lightening flashes the insect responds by chang
EXTT3=ing pitch! Can you hear the static electricity that surro
EXTT3=unds the storm? Only a spoonful of water reaches the grou
EXTT3=nd, but this is a gift. Sometimes rain falls, but never r
EXTT3=eaches the ground, evaporating instead during descent.\n
EXTT4=Night ends at Bushman Fountain with the call of an owl.\n
EXTT5=The dawn chorus is sparse but expressive. When I recorded
EXTT5= the songs of unfamiliar birds, I could not help but ask 
EXTT5=myself about the life of the Bushman who sat here over 2,
EXTT5=500 years ago.\n
EXTT6=The quiet music of solitude continues.\n
EXTT7=The quiet music of solitude continues to the eye of the f
EXTT7=ountain.
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