Nature Festival SA presents Deep Listening to Nature’s Resilience

Listening offers a powerful awareness of what is happening in the environment around us.

Acoustic ecologist, Andrew Skeoch, will begin by guiding you into identifying species by ear and recognising the behavioural associations of various repertoire, allowing you to hear the ‘stories of the bush’.

From this foundation, he will explore the dawn chorus as an avian communication network, a phenomena found among songbirds the world over. Why have birds evolved this extraordinary behaviour, and what is its purpose?

This will lead us into listening more deeply, to consider ecosystem relationships that generate the essential conditions for life.

Finally, Andrew will present sonic evidence of nature’s resilience, from his recordings of an ecosystem severely impacted in the 2019 Black Summer bushfires.

Andrew’s presentations are an immersive weaving of evocative recordings, fascinating spectrogram analysis and original ideas. You’ll hear the natural environment around you in a whole new way.