Sound, as a medium, aesthetically allows us
to experience environment as connections
between living things, and cycles, and rhythms.
Gordon Hempton

Ears Wide Open

The Quarterly Bulletin of the Acoustic Ecology Institute

Number 6
May 2007

CONTENTS

»	Introduction
»	Institute Update
»	Recent Science Findings
»	Soundbytes
»	Listening on the Web
»	Join Acoustic Ecology Institute

Hello again to the core supporters of the Acoustic Ecology Institute. I hope that this quarterly "distilled version" of the AEI website is helping you stay connected to our work, and to your interest in our sounding world. Of course, by following the links at the top of the page, you can dive into the full (and increasingly sprawling) Institute website.

I am sure that all of you are having your own versions of the annual return to the outdoors world, meeting again familiar and much-loved places around your homes, welcoming the sights, smells, and sounds of this turning time. Today is Beltaine, May Day, a day to celebrate the abundance of the spring. Here in the foothills of the southern Rockies, that abundance includes the high-pitched diving wing-whirring of hummingbirds, the soft hum of tiny bees adding a nearly transparent sonic wash to the bushy fragrant beauty of fruit trees abloom, and, last night, the first thunderstorm of the year passing by to our south, its gentle rumbling thuder-rolls and occasional cloud-glowing bursts of lightning expanding the body of this landscape into the sky above.

May we each find our own ways to take in the fresh promise of all that is new, and, from that place of wonder and gratitude, to contribute to the renewal that the world is calling from us in these times.

Jim Cummings
AEI Founder

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