All of the nature sounds in the Quiet Planet Nature SFX series were recorded by Gordon Hempton, The Sound Tracker®, Emmy-winner, author of One Square Inch of Silence, and environmental activist. Faced with habitat loss, species extinction and most of all unbridled noise pollution, Hempton has now turned his attention towards saving the world’s few remaining natural amphitheaters.
Gordon Hempton cares very deeply about quiet. As The Sound Tracker® he has circled the globe three times over the last 35 years in pursuit of Earth’s rarest nature sounds — sounds which can only be fully appreciated in the absence of manmade noise. These recordings are available through the Quiet Planet series.
THE COMPLETE Quiet Planet® is one of the most extensive and meticulously recorded HD nature ambience sound libraries on the planet. It contains all our 17 Quiet Planet® sound packs recorded all over the globe by Emmy-winner and recording genius Gordon Hempton – The Soundtracker®. This bundle will be an invaluable addition to your daily sound design resources as it is THE perfect toolkit for sound designers that appreciate absolutely magnificent and realistic ambience sounds for a professional production environment.
THE COMPLETE Quiet Planet® is available in three editions: STEREO & SURROUND, STEREO, BASICS
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Legendary Nature Recordist Gordon Hempton on His Quest to Capture a Quiet Planet
Legendary recordist Gordon Hempton shares stories, philosophies, and tips on recording natural soundscapes:
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360 video: How to find silence in a noisy world – with Gordon Hempton:
Explore the sounds of the mossy, green Hoh Rain Forest with Gordon Hempton:
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‘Being Hear’ – a much-praised documentary on sound and listening:
Experience the excellent ‘Being Hear’ documentary – featuring recordist Gordon Hempton – here:
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Gordon Hempton is turning up the volume on Earth’s rarest sounds while working to preserve them for future generations.
– Oprah
There is something about them that makes you want to redefine the words, “truth and beauty.” Listening to them through headphones, with your eyes closed, inspires visions as vivid as outright hallucinations.
– The Weekly
In these magnificent recordings, clear and mysterious as haiku, Gordon Hempton distills the spirit of the natural world. As wild sound in a movie, they hitch the seen to the invisible. A gift for every filmmaker!
– Robert Gerst / Author of “Make Film History: Rewrite, Reshoot, and Recut the World’s Greatest Films”
In a way, his recordings carry on the tradition of American photographer Ansel Adams whose technically perfect photographs captured the undisturbed, timeless beauty of the mountain vistas and majestic canyons of the American West.
– Monitor Radio
America’s foremost guru of quiet.
– USA Today
You may hear for the first time what has been missing in most other recordings – real rolling and shaking, a genuine edge-of-night boom-and-gloom gluttony of power and subtlety unmatched in the world of audio…
– Fanfare
Someday Gordon Hempton’s recordings may be heard as the last echo of nature at its most natural.
– Philadelphia Inquirer
Gordon Hempton brings new meaning to the word purist. He meticulously scouts out sites for his soundscapes… Hempton is totally in touch with his environment as a listener, and he is committed to bringing what he hears to a wider audience.
– Smithsonian
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