🎧 Soundscape | Amazon After Dark: A Night in Kichwa Territory, Ecuador

About this episode

This episode features a nocturnal soundscape recorded in Kichwa territory, highlighting the beauty of nature and its impact on wellbeing.

Hey friends, it's been a while. Like many of you, we've been navigating a lot on the environmental and overall news front lately, so today I'm doing something a little different. I think back to those early days kayaking with friends here in Florida, searching rivers for trash. Some days we'd arrive and the water was pristine. We almost felt bad, like we had nothing to do. My mentor smiled and said, "just enjoy it, sometimes we need to remember why we do what we do." That's what this episode is. No interviews, no talking. Just the sounds of the living world. This nocturnal soundscape was recorded deep inside Kichwa tribal territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon by artist Rafael Diogo. Bats cutting through the dark, insects surging into something almost electric, a monkey rustling unseen branches, a distant howl, and underneath it all a stream threading through the night. A beautiful reminder of what we're working for. Big thank you to Rafael and our friends at Earth.fm — a nonprofit repository of over 1,200 pure, immersive natural soundscapes from around the world, recorded by the best artists. Based on empirical evidence as well as numerousrecent studies from all over the world…

People in this episode

Host: Frank Oscar Weaver

Topics covered

• soundscape
• nature
• environment
• wellbeing
• Kichwa
• Ecuador
• Amazon

Keywords

• soundscape
• Kichwa
• Ecuador
• nature
• wellbeing
• environment
• Amazon
• Rafael Diogo
• Earth.fm

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Earth.fm

Places: Kichwa Territory, Ecuador, Amazon, Florida

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