Enter an invisible world that parallels our own and be inspired by insights gleaned over twenty-five years of deep listening to natural ecologies - with bioacoustic landscape recordist, Andrew Skeoch.

Kyla’s notes:

We are drawn to Andrew Skeoch’s visceral recordings of natural landscapes and ecosystems - not just because he is able to bring these wild ecologies to digital life - but because he uses listening and recording as a way to peal back the layers of what is going on in our world. We like the idea that a podcast on dealing with climate change could do something similar - and hope to learn how to go about it from him.

Andrew Skeoch encourages us to listen to the voices, life forces and ways of being in this world that exist beyond the anthrosphere and that cannot be explained by our science alone - he asks us to allow ourselves to be influenced and come away changed by it.

Similarly, science is limited in helping us to fully understanding and deal with the impacts of climate change on ourselves, society and the world. Learning another grim fact about tipping points passed or how unliveable a three degree rise in temperatures will be, does nothing to help us put one foot in front of the other and cope with climate grief - and for many, is not a compelling enough reason to turn off a lightbulb.

Climate change is a “social, cultural and political phenomenon” writes author and social researcher, Rebecca Huntley. It triggers ancient psychological coping mechanisms and elicits deep emotional responses and behaviours that are not easy to get our heads around - let alone ‘deactivate’. And I think one of the things Rob and I want to do in End Game is to tune in and listen to some of these other ways of understanding the impacts of the climate crisis - because unless we start to pry apart and demystify what’s going on in our heads and hearts - we’ll be locked into this terrifying inertia of not enough action on climate change and the environment.

The ‘When you know a place’ audio file was actively updated in May 2022

End Game launched with the publication of ‘When you know a place’ to the web (read EndGame has begun on Kyla’s blog)

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Awards

Shortlisted nomination for the HearSay International Audio Festival “Create” category Audio Prize

Credits
co-Produced by Kyla Brettle & Rob Law
Sound Design by Kyla Brettle
Music by Rob Law
Photography by Carmen Bunting

Featuring
Andrew Skeoch

Nature Soundscapes
“Springtime in the Bush - Rufous Whistler” courtesy of Listening Earth, Andrew Skeoch
“Tall Forest - Garden of Ferns” courtesy of Listening Earth, Andrew Skeoch
“The Ferny Acacia Cicada” courtesy of Listening Earth, Andrew Skeoch

License
CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)
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Distribution
Jun 19, 2021 “Listening to the Natural World” on ‘Off Track’ with Ann Jones on ABC Radio National

Links
Listening Earth
Carmen Bunting Photography
Rob Law’s Music
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