Temporary Hearing Loss by Paolo Pietropaolo published on 2012-07-09T18:52:47Z "Temporary Hearing Loss" by Paolo Pietropaolo, 2010 I first started suffering from tinnitus about seven years ago. I’ve learned how to live with it, mostly. It usually affects me the most when I’m in a very silent environment, like somewhere in the wilderness. Gordon Hempton is someone who knows all about very quiet places and so I thought he might have some insight into how I might learn to listen to them again despite my tinnitus. He’s a Grammy-award winning sound recordist and acoustic ecologist based in Port Angeles, WA, and he’s also the founder and caretaker of One Square Inch of silence in Washington’s Olympic National Park – the quietest place in the USA. When we spoke, he said some very interesting things about how society is sort of suffering from a collective temporary hearing loss – and how he believes that learning how to listen again could help us take better care of the planet we live on. I mixed his words from that conversation together with some of my recordings of human and environmental sounds to create this short radio piece. Genre Documentary Comment by JPauline I've long been an advocate for noise reduction. Noise is one the most misunderstood and unhealthy aspects of today's societal woes. 2013-05-26T17:50:02Z Comment by Paolo Pietropaolo He's got a book called "One Square Inch of Silence" 2012-09-19T05:20:46Z Comment by Paolo Pietropaolo Speaker: Gordon Hempton, sound ecologist 2012-09-19T05:20:13Z
