The Last Sound

Invisibilia

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4.6 • 22.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Bernie Krause was a successful musician as a young man, playing with rock stars like Jim Morrison and George Harrison in the 1960s and '70s. But then one day, Bernie heard a sound unlike anything he'd ever encountered and it completely overtook his life. He quit the music business to pursue it and has spent the last 50 years following it all over the earth. And what he's heard raises this question: what can we learn about ourselves and the world around us if we quiet down and listen? | To learn more about this episode, subscribe to our newsletter. Click here to learn more about NPR sponsors.

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0:00.0	So, this might be the end of our season,
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0:25.5	which I hear all the young people are using.
0:37.5	The way we usually think about sound
0:40.5	is that it's not really a thing you can hold on to.
0:44.5	Like it's here and then it's gone.
0:47.5	But actually, waves of sound are powerful,
0:51.5	strong enough to pulse through air and water
0:54.5	and solid objects.
0:56.5	And what a sound reaches you.
0:58.5	Like when you actually hear it, it's because that sound
1:01.5	is physically touching you.
1:03.5	Winding its way inside your ear until it hits the drum in your head
1:08.5	and plays it.
1:13.5	This is NPR's in Vizbilia, I'm Elise Spiegel.
1:16.5	And I'm Hannah Rosen.
1:18.5	And today we're exploring the unique power of sound.
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