Inspired by Maggie's post about the miles O'Brien NewsHour PBS report from Chernobyl, 25 years after the disaster there a follower on Twitter just pointed me to this amazing series of works by sound artist Peter Cusack - ambient sounds in Chernobyl Ukraine, recorded in the year 2006.
Hear the frogs and Nightingales of Chernobyl here. Beautiful.
The project note:
da nuclear disaster of 26 April 1986 and full as opposed to human life, nature in Chernobyl thrives. The evacuation of people has created a private haven and wildlife has to take full advantage. Animals and birds have returned absent for many years - wolves, moose, black storks - and exclusion in Chernobyl zone is now one of the European prime wildlife areas. Radiation seems one have had a negligible effect. The increase in the wildlife figures and diversity means that the natural sounds particularly impressive spring. For me, the passionate species of rich dawn chorus of Chernobyl was final sound. Chernobyl is also famous for its frogs and Nightingales. Nightly concerts were similarly spectacular.
Of course, in terms of the NewsHour, today Chernobyl report sounds as phones ringing. News crews from around the world try all book time on the site reports on 25th anniversary of the worst nuclear disaster in history to produce.
Related: Cusack's "Sounds of dangerous places" collected sounds from places, including Chernobyl, the Azerbaijan oil fields, project, and in the vicinity of controversial dams on the Euphrates and Tigris River systems in Turkey, are the sites of major environmental damage.
(Image: Peter Cusack, via gruenrekorder.de.) (Thanks, Sara Huws!)
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