Sounds Right Recognizes Nature as Musician, With Royalties Going to Environmental Causes

Image caption: The Museum for the United Nations – UN Live launched Sounds Right, a global music initiative enabling nature to generate conservation funding from her own sounds, on April 18, 2024. Sounds Right. Article by Cristen Hemingway Jaynes. Edited by Chris McDermott. EcoWatch – April 19, 2024. Source: Museum for the United Nations – UN Live.

If you’ve ever listened to “Riders on the Storm” by The Doors, you know that before any music from instruments begins, there is the sound of heavy rain and thunder, giving the song an ambience created by the “music” of nature. Likewise, about halfway through “Blackbird” by The Beatles, the sound of a male blackbird singing adds the inimitable chorus of the natural world to the melody. […]

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