7:30 PM this evening "Tuning into the Biophony with Bernie Krause and David Harrington | Exploratorium" on YouTube

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Tuning In to the Biophony
 7:30 p.m.
 Kanbar Forum
With Bernie Krause and David Harrington, moderated by Kirstin Bach

Tonight only, join us for a conversation about the act of listening. Bernie Krause and David Harrington have each spent over 50 years in careers dedicated to sharing transcendent sound experiences with listeners. Krause’s work has centered on his explorations of soundscape ecology; Harrington’s on his founding and leadership of the world-renowned San Francisco–based Kronos Quartet. 

Friends for over 40 years, both men are advocates for the power of sound to inspire unique and different ways of understanding our world and of connecting with one another. In tonight’s event, Krause and Harrington invite us into a conversation in which they will reflect on the points of connection and divergence in their respective experiences, share samples of their work and insights on how to listen more deeply, and speculate on how sound and music can be tools for confronting climate change.

Bernie Krause has devoted over 50 years to soundscape ecology. He has traveled the world recording and studying the sounds of natural habitats, from the Amazon jungle to California salt ponds. He’s been stalked by a jaguar, tossed around by a mountain gorilla, and spent as long as 30 hours sitting still in order to capture nature’s symphonic sounds great and small—from groaning glaciers and singing sand dunes to bellowing elk and chirping ants.

David Harrington is the founder of and first violinist in the chamber ensemble Kronos Quartet. Since founding the group in 1973, Harrington has forged it into one of the foremost American string quartets of our time. Integral to Kronos’s work is a series of long-running, in-depth collaborations with many of the world’s foremost composers, resulting in a vast body of Kronos-commissioned works for string quartet. 

The conversation will be moderated by Kirstin Bach, Interim Director of Arts at the Exploratorium.

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