Sonidos del mundo

This book is the sound chronicle of a traveler. For years, the author has moved around the world with a microphone in hand, listening. By hearsay, you could say. From this particular "point of view", landscapes, both natural and cultural, tell a different story. Hundreds of languages ??are spoken on earth, prayer is summoned in a thousand ways, each culture sings and laughs in its own way. In cultural landscapes, sound draws the profiles of the horizon. In the metallic choir of the bells is the sound profile of the cities; in the calls to prayer from all kinds of minarets, the undulations of desert landscapes; in the trunks of the lamas, the depth of the valleys of the Himalayas. In nature, on the other hand, there are no two places that play the same soundtrack, nor two days in which the same concert is repeated. No one knows how big a volcano is until he can measure the volume of its blasts. Not even how many are the inhabitants of the jungle until he hears the voices that come from the limits of the sound horizon, beyond the trees. For those who travel by ear, the crackling of amphibians and insects in the African savannah, the lament of hyenas or the growls of hippopotamuses are the preamble to the spread of the lion's roars; the warning cry of the sambar in the jungle, the warning that precedes the call of the tiger. Silence, the backdrop against which the music of biodiversity is composed. There are no limits to this soundtrack in which life on earth tells itself with its own voices.