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Quiet Dawn of Souls

by Hearing Beings

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mikehoolboom So much of the joy of Hearing Beings is the in-between moments, the past late night moments when the wind is rustling through trees and grasses, as the bird life slowly calls out to a new morning. The sense that the air, the ground, that everything is alive, and whispering in the same hushed tones, where every song line conveys new ways of listening. The attention is rapt, peerless.
Favorite track: Quiet Dawn of Souls. First Light..
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Quiet Dawn of Souls. First Light. 25:15
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Quiet Dawn of Souls. Second Light. 23:21
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Quiet Dawn of Souls. Sunrise and Early Morning. 41:59
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First Light, Second Light, Sunrise and Early Morning. Late Summer, in Mallee Country, South Australia.

A NOTE ON THE 'THREE TWILIGHTS' AND SUNRISE. There are three widely accepted categories of 'twilight' (before sunrise and after sunset), commonly labelled 'civil twilight', 'nautical twilight', and 'astronomical twilight'. These have specific geometric definitions. Civil twilight is when the geometric centre of the Sun is between 6° below the horizon and the horizon itself. Nautical twilight is when the geometric centre of the Sun is between 12° and 6° below the horizon. With astronomical twilight, the geometric centre of the Sun is between 18° and 12° below the horizon. These three twilights are not merely arbitrary conventions: they have a real phenomenological basis, as the common names given to them clearly imply.

'Astronomical twilight' assumes that there is no anthropogenic or natural light pollution, and that the sky is clear. This earliest solar twilight, while extremely subtle to the naked eye, can interfere with very sensitive astronomical observations. 'Nautical twilight' implies that there is sufficient faint light for sailors to discern the horizon as an aid to navigation. 'Civil twilight' implies that, in urban environments, artifical night lighting is no longer required; or, to put it another way, twilight becomes bright enough to be discernible despite general urban artificial light pollution.

Out in the Mallee, one is a long way both from the sea and from urban lighting: the names 'nautical' and 'civil' twilight are irrelevant. But the twilight phases themselves are not. From experience, I've learned that, far from urban environments, with their apparently unavoidable noise and light pollution, the twilight times generally correspond quite precisely with distinctly different phases of the 'dawn chorus'. This present recording is a good example. As is typical, the first stirrings of the dawn chorus begin very close to 'nautical twilight', or what I prefer to call 'first light', which began at approximately 04:51 (ACST). There is a very definite change in content and form of bird activity with the onset of 'civil twilight', which I prefer to call 'second light', at approximately 05:22 (ACST). And finally, with sunrise, at approximately 05:48 (ACST), there is another even more pronounced change in bird and other animal activity. But all of this unfolds, in its own natural time, with its own natural rhythm, in a setting of deep quietude, openness, and stillness.

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released July 22, 2023

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Exploring hearing, the hearable, and the hearer, as an event, a mode, and a dimension of being.

Each year, proceeds from personal purchases will be donated to a not-for-profit organisation working to protect natural environments and ecosystems. In 2024, it was the Australian Conservation Foundation.

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