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My race against time to capture the sounds of ancient rainforests

Electro-acoustics researcher David Monacchi preserves the soundscapes of endangered forests to convey the risks they face.
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Prof David Monacchi, an Italian researcher and eco-acoustic composer at work in the sonosphere. Pesaro, Italy.

David Monacchi is founding director of the Fragments of Extinction project and is an electroacoustics researcher at the Conservatorio Rossini of Pesaro, Italy. Credit: Elisabetta Zavoli for Nature

Natural soundscapes have always called to me. As an eco- and electro-acoustics researcher, with a background in sound engineering and electronic music composition, I have always tried to strike a balance between art and science in my work.

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Nature 591, 170 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00535-9

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