Écouter les oiseaux et les sons de la nature ('Listening to Birds and the Sounds of Nature') is a sensitive work devoted to a practice that is still too little recognized: audio-naturalism. Born in the 1960s with Jean Roché, founder of the French school of listening to living nature, audio-naturalism made sound a genuine tool for understanding natural environments, long before the concept of biodiversity became central to public debate.
At the crossroads of science, art, and philosophy, this book retraces the genealogies, founding figures, and contemporary developments of this discipline, from the embodied listening of soundscapes to the emergence of eco-acoustics. Bringing together naturalists, sound recordists, researchers, artists, and philosophers, this work explores sonic landscapes. It examines the techniques, forms of expression, and ethical dimensions of listening, while situating audio-naturalism within the major contemporary reflections on living systems.
This book is intended for all those who wish to understand, through listening, what connects humanity to the living world — and why learning to listen has today become an act of knowledge, responsibility, and transmission.
Patrick FRÉMEAUX

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AVEC LES CONTRIBUTIONS DE BERNARD FORT (LA GRIVE SOLITAIRE, FRÉMEAUX) • FERNAND DEROUSSEN (NATURO-PHONIA) • JÉRÔME SUEUR (MUSÉUM D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE) • JEAN-CLAUDE ROCHÉ (SITTELLE-FRÉMEAUX) • JULIETTE VOLCLER (SYNTONE) • MARC JACQUIN (PHONURGIA NOVA) • GILLES MALATRAY (DÉSARTSONNANTS) • MARC NAMBLARD • BRICE CANNAVO • DENIS WAGENMANN (LES CHEMINS SONORES) • BORIS JOLLIVET (FRÉMEAUX) • LÊ QUAN NINH (SONATURA) • OLIVIER PICHARD • ADÈLE DE BAUDOIN (SYRIGMA) • MÉLIA ROGER • PASCAL DHUICQ (MEMOTOPIC) • ALLAIN BOUGRAIN-DUBOURG (LIGUE POUR LA PROTECTION DES OISEAUX) • PATRICK FRÉMEAUX (FRÉMEAUX, FORÊTS ET CAMPAGNES D’AVENIR)