Gordon Hempton

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Gordon Hempton is an international acoustic ecologist and Emmy Award-winning sound recordist. For nearly 25 years he has provided professional audio services to musicians, galleries, museums, and media producers, including Microsoft, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Discovery, National Public Radio, and numerous other businesses and organizations. He has received recognition from the Charles A. Lindbergh Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rolex Awards for Enterprise. A botany graduate of the University of Wisconsin (1976) with graduate studies in plant pathology (1980), Gordon Hempton began recording the sounds of nature in Washington State, embarking on numerous backpacking trips into the wilderness. He produced and published his first two titles, Idle Times and Put on Your Dirty Cap, under The Sound Tracker® label in 1982. The following year Hempton recorded at The Nature Conservancy’s Yellow Island Preserve, a small island off Washington State. In 1985, he published Limited Editions of Rare Native Acoustics—32 sound portraits available on both cassette and ¼” analog tape. People Magazine published a prominent center page article on May 30, 1988, "Listening for the Vanishing Sounds of Silence, Gordon Hempton Wishes Civilization Would Lower Its Voice.” With a circulation of 24 million copies, this publicity drew national attention to the fact that natural soundscapes were vanishing and only Hempton was preserving them. Additional national publicity follow

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