Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emmanuel Vaughn Lee, executive editor of Emergence Magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Meawak people of present-day Marin County.

Each week, we feature a new interview, narrated essay, or story, exploring the threads connecting

ecology, culture, and spirituality.

A very, very long time ago, at the moment our universe came into being, there was silence.

And then, before the stars or galaxies began to form, the first

sound waves reached through the young universe. Sound, the pronouncement of existence,

wove a new note, a call into the expanse of creation.

This week, we're sharing when the Earth started to sing,

an audio experience by biologist and acclaimed author David George Haskell.

Adapted from his Pulitzer finalist book, sounds wild and broken.

It invites us to be attentive to the songs and stories that thrum in the air around us. Hearing three billion years of our planet's sound

evolution, a lineage of language, in the trills, hoops, barks, bugles, clicks, and pulses of the life

around him, David shares the bugles, clicks, and pulses of the life around him,

David shares the connection to both deep time and the more than human world

that can be found when we tune into the Earth's orchestra.

Made entirely of the tiny trembling waves and air,

the fugitive, ephemeral energy we call sound.

This experience combines human speech with other voices to immerse our senses and imaginations

in the generative, provoking and unifying power of sound.

I recommend that you listen with good headphones if you can. Let your ears experience, explore, and enjoy in an open-ended way. I'm Sound is more ancient than planet Earth, more ancient even than atoms.

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