Wu Jin-dai Releases Forest Rhapsody
吳金黛「森林狂想曲」發表
Source: The First Sound from Taiwan’s Forests — Wind Music’s Forest Rhapsody
From: Muzik
Date: October 1999 · Author: Han Sen
Forest Rhapsody (*Forest Rhapsody*), released by Wind Music, is the first album to compile a field-recorded sound atlas of Taiwan’s forests and weave it into original music. Producer Judy Wu (吳金黛) returned to Taiwan after studying recording technology in the United States and collaborated with wilderness explorer Hsu Jen-hsiu, natural-sound recordist Liu Yi-hua, and naturalist Yang Ya-tang. Released in 1999 as a double-CD, the album comprises one disc blending natural sounds with original compositions and a second disc of field recordings from Taiwan’s mountains and forests — together collecting nearly 100 species of Taiwanese natural sound, including birds, frogs, cicadas, insects, muntjac deer, macaques, flying squirrels, and streams.
Video source: TEDxTaipeiSalon, A Music Producer Lets Animals Speak — Singing the True “Song of Nature” | Judy Wu
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External Links
- Judy Wu · Forest Rhapsody 2CD (Wind Music)
- Recording Nature: Judy Wu Preserves the Sound of Heaven (Merit Times)
- Collecting the Most Beautiful Soundscapes of the Land — Interview with Judy Wu (Public Television Service)
- Collecting Nature’s Moving Notes — Judy Wu, Recording Taiwan’s Sounds (National Park Quarterly)