The sound of the African savanna on a calm day
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- 게시일 2022. 11. 24.
- African savanna ambience with birds singing and insects calling at various distances - a beautiful and calm soundscape full of exquisite little detail. You don't have to have visited this part of the world to feel like you can instantly relate to and connect with its sounds. Is that a simple matter of humans appreciating lush birdsong or does it signal a deeper bond?
The African savanna - along with its many local variations like plains, grasslands, miombo woodland, shrubland, bushveld etc - is where you, me and every other human alive today can trace our origins back to. The appearance of these environments coincides with the early evolution of hominin, and therefore human species. The science is by no means clear but there are good arguments for this hypothesis (www.nature.com/articles/s4159....
Moving from hard fact towards more elusive ideas, I wonder if these sounds can still be part of our genetic material, at the very least as a vague response on a subconscious level. Without sounding too new-agey, maybe we can relate more to African savanna soundscapes than to, for example, New Guinea rainforest ambience, or surely busy cityscapes. Someone needs to do a double blind test and measure the response in a group of people from different backgrounds.
Regardless, one of the reasons I keep going back to Africa in search of pristine natural soundscapes is a feeling of going back home. One of the possible reasons for that is the fact that I grew up on a subsistence farm in a rather remote and wild part of Romania, which is not unlike some of the places I've visited in Africa. Another reason might just be the fact that a primitive part of my brain responds well to these sounds - sounds that our ancestors have heard for aeons as they evolved in Africa's savannas.
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Enjoy!
Reminds me of my rural home in Mwea, Kenya with the view of Mt. Kenya in a distance.
Glad to hear that.
I felt that same "bond" when I visited Tanzania 12 years ago. Very special.
Glad to hear that Christine. It feels a bit like a pilgrimage.
Much appreciate these recordings and I am deeply jealous of you doing this as a career haha. Amazing how much of the character of a place comes through only through the sonic profile. Definitely agree with how certain sounds/vibrations resonator further back/into our being. Personally I notice this with folk music aswell, lately especially playing the flute brings me into contact with my shared historicity with the world. Rupert sheldrake has formalized this notion in his "morphic resonance" tying it together with all sorts of otherwise hard to explain phenomena in nature.
Thanks and all the best!
Thanks Fabian, that is a very interesting rabbit hole.
Morphic resonance is a failed pseudo hypothesis and just a rehash of the old and scientifically debunked "vitalism."
Sheldrake after all these years hasn't offer any verifiable testable material evidence for his zero evidence pseudoscience.
I'm not trying to say your an idiot or gullible....but Sheldrake is in the same category as the intelligent design creationist grifters of the Christian propaganda mill 'Discovery Institute."
Morphic resonance isn't testable or falsifiable. No experiments by himself or others have been done using the claims of morphic resonance....thus no data exists, no laboratory research....no testable models....and it definitely hasn't lead to any of the material knowledge in Biology, Genetics, Taxonomy or any of the life sciences...
It bothers me that we have such great,collected and tested material evidence thru modern Evolutionary theory....and some individuals STILL in 2024 prefer supernatural explanations that haven't lead to anything we test, use or apply....in the field, in the laboratory, in medicine or looking at fossils or even behavior.
While evolutionary theory leads to real understanding of nature, behavior, homology, diseases, the immune system, fossils etc etc etc.
Im glad Melvin Sheldrake accepts evolution and applies it to his work on fungi. Even his own son rejects applying a pseudoscience without predictive powers, without applications and without testable hypotheses that could eventually transform into scientific theories.
Finally a recording that's VERY close to what I remember. (Especially the fervent calls of Cape turtle doves to "Work harder...work harder...") Many thanks! :)
Enjoy!
as usual, enjoyed listening to your works, thanks for sharing George
Thanks for listening 💚
George, this soundscape definitely feels like home to me even though I've never been there. So grateful you share this with us. thank you!
My pleasure, happy to hear that Sabina.
Oooh lovely - another one to add to my sleep playlist 😴 💕 Thank you 😊
You're welcome 😊
Having lived in both the New Guinea rainforest and the East African savanna I can relate to the visceral feeling of coming home in the latter environment. Every time I return to Africa (once or twice a year), these sounds calm and soothe me. Where I live the rest of the time, in a large British city, the city sounds just agitate me.
There's nothing like the sounds of the savanna for human ears.
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Beautiful. This was the sound I woke up to every day of my childhood. In Bulawayo. Savannah but not far from the Kalahari Desert.
Lovely part of the world.
Sounds great !
Thanks Jacob.
So good ❤😊
I Just love it
Love this one! Thanks!!
Glad you like it.
so much depth for being so calm! :)
That's a nice feature of the landscape - many layers and reflections.
Nice one
Nice one indeed.
Relaxing nature sounds great effort 😊
Yes, thanks
Hi, could you please explain how you add the sound wave to the video? And btw, great content, keep it up 🙏
Thanks, I used Adobe After Effects.
This is one of my favorite of your recordings of the African wilderness. I get that you’ve been to South Luangwa, but have you considered traveling to Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe? It’s similar to South Luangwa, but it has some more special traits. From elephants that rear up on their hind legs when feeding on leaves to the painted dogs that were the stars in an episode of BBC’s “Dynasties”, Mana Pools is a place worth traveling to. Who knows, you may even find some good opportunities to record some nature sounds.
I have plans to go to Zimbabwe and Mana Pools, hopefully next year.
i love it! What is that "gurring" bird that just keeps going nonstop?
That is the Cape turtle dove, one of the iconic sounds of the African savanna.
The insect flying by at about 1:30 was crazy--I thought it flew through my brain.
NOt to mention 31:25
Haha, I considered editing it out but I like the sense of scale it brings.