Sound recordist Gordon Hempton uses a meter to check the sound level in Olympic National Park. Photo by Seattle Times photographer Ken Lambert, in June, 2005. Hempton wants to declare one square inch of the Hoh valley a sanctuary of natural quiet as a way to defend the “soundscape” of Olympic National Park.
From the Podcast Generation Anthropocene, from the Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Science
Gordon Hempton is an “acoustic ecologist” and field recording artist who seeks out the places on Earth that are free of noise pollution. The episode features Hempton’s story and some of his favorite recordings of the natural environment. You can listen to a field recording from Hempton’s “One Square Inch of Silence” and for more of his work check out his book “One Square Inch of Silence: One Man’s Quest to Preserve Quiet.”