Bernie Krause

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Bernie Krause (born 8 December 1938 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American bioacoustician. He coined the term, "biophony". In a previous career as a musician, he was a member of The Weavers, and was one of the first players of the Moog Synthesizer in the 1960s. He formed Beaver & Krause with fellow synthesist Paul Beaver (who had played the instrument on a Monkees recording, "Star Collector"), to make electronic music featuring the Moog and other instruments.

In November 1968, Krause demonstrated the Moog for Beatle George Harrison, who was visiting California; a recording of the session became the basis of "No Time Or Space", a track featured on Harrison's Electronic Sound album the next year. Krause also provided soundtrack music for Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, Dr. Doolittle, and Apocalypse Now.

Krause holds a Ph.D. in bioacoustics from Union Institute in Cincinnati, and is also remembered as the "Pied Piper" who lured a stray humpback whale from the Sacramento River Delta back to the Pacific Ocean, through the use of sounds.

Krause's 1970 album In a Wild Sanctuary was the first to employ the sounds of nature on a large scale, as a source of musical tones and rhythms, and to make a statement about the environment. Krause continues to compose and produce electronic and environmentally-themed music, including a popular series of albums for The Nature Company.

In 1998, Heyday Books published Krause's autobiography, Into a Wild Sanctuary: A Life in Music and Natural Sound.

In 2002, Wilderness Press published his instructional Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World with companion CD.

In 2007, Krause demonstrated a KML layer to Google Earth and Google Maps that makes it possible to listen to the soundscapes from all over the world. He's planning to make part of his sound collection available via this add-on.