Based on special issue of Terra nova (summer 1997, vol. 2, no. 3)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : Does nature understand music? / David Rothenberg -- The music of the spheres / Hazrat Inayat Khan -- Primal sound / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Happy new ears / John Cage -- Diary : Emma Lake Music Workshop 1965 / John Cage -- An interview with Pierre Schaeffer / Tim Hodgkinson -- Deus ex machina / Evan Eisenberg -- Music and the soundscape / R. Murray Schafer -- The music of the earth / Tsai Chih Chung -- From The bear comes home / Rafi Zabor -- Sax can moo... / Steve Lacy -- From Piano pieces / Russell Sherman -- Music, nature, and computers : a showdown / Jaron Lanier --Nature, sound art, and the sacred / David Dunn -- My one conversation with Collin Walcott / David James Duncan -- From Coming through slaughter / Michael Ondaatje -- From Rubicon beach / Steve Erickson -- The Sharawadji effect / Claude Schryer -- Sonic images / Pauline Oliveros -- The poetics of environmental sound / Pauline Oliveros -- Ambient music / Brian Eno -- Speaking from inside the soundscape / Hildegard Westerkamp -- Toothwalkers / Douglas Quin -- Blind listening / Francisco López -- From Exotica / David Toop -- From Brother of sleep / Robert Schneider -- The place where you go to listen / John Luther Adams -- Nature and music / Toru Takemitsu -- Lift-up-over sounding / Steven Feld -- Sweet singer of the pine barrens / Eric Salzman -- Where the sounds live / Bernie Krause -- From "A portrait of Shunkin" / Junichiro Tanizaki