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Bernie Krause

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Musician

The Resume

    (December 8, 1938- )
    Born in Detroit, Michigan
    Birth name is Bernard L. Krause
    Guitarist, composer and soundscape ecologist
    Half of the Beaver & Krause duo (with Paul Beaver)
    Recorded ‘The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music,’ ‘Citadels of Mystery,’ ‘Sounds of a Summer's Evening,’ ‘Amazon Days, Amazon Nights’ and ‘Ocean Wonders’
    Worked on the films 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1956), 'Performance' (1970) and 'Apocalypse Now' (1979)

Why he might be annoying:

    He and Paul Beaver played the Moog on a Monkees track.
    He allegedly worked on over 100 films, although IMDB only actually credits him with three.
    He was the third replacement for Pete Seeger after he left the Weavers (the group disbanded a year after he joined).
    When he did The Dick Cavett Show, it was the same show that Barbara Hershey exposed her breast to feed her infant son during the live interview.
    The host had to ask Hershey to leave the set because the baby’s crying drowned out Krause’s talking in the first half of his segment, only for an ambulance siren to drown out his speaking again for the second half (June 15, 1973).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He recorded music with the Nez Perce tribe.
    He coined the terms geophony, biophony, and anthropophony.
    He founded Wild Sanctuary, which is dedicated to the recording and archiving of natural soundscapes.
    His and Paul Beaver’s debut album was the first to incorporate natural soundscapes as an inherent component of orchestration.
    He and Beaver are credited with helping to introduce the synthesizer to pop music and film.
    He demonstrated the Moog for George Harrison during a recording of the session and it became the basis for ‘No Time Or Space’ on Harrison's Electronic Sound album.
    He spent the 1980’s studying the science of bio-acoustics from places as diverse as Alaska and Kenya.
    His recordings of humpback whale proved successful to luring a lost whale named Humphrey out from the Sacramento River Delta back to the Pacific Ocean, in 1985.
    He continues to record in the field and produce 3-D soundscapes for public spaces.

Credit: Eddie Burphy & BoyWiththeGreenHair


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