Bernie Krause

He holds a PhD in Creative Sounds Arts with an internship in marine bioacoustics from Union Institute & University in Cincinnati and coined the term “biophony”. Before discovering that wild animal sounds can have certain similarities to musical harmony and orchestral organisation, he contributed to defining the concept of soundscape ecology.

In 2016, the Fondation Cartier presented the Le Grand Orchestre des Animaux exhibition inspired by a project played for the first time in 2014 in Great Britain by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales: The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony for Orchestra and Wild Soundscapes, created with English composer Richard Blackford. Krause's soundscapes revealed that each species has its own acoustic niche and that human activities reduce these "great animal orchestras" to silence. United Visual Artists (UVA) collaborated with Krause to create visuals for these recordings, allowing the Fondation Cartier's visitors to journey to the very heart of these wild soundscapes. 

Soundwalk Collective is an international contemporary sound art collective founded by artist Stephan Crasneanscki, later joined by Simone Merli. The collective collaborates with a range of artists and musicians to develop sound projects in situ, using a variety of media, including artistic installations, dance, music, and cinema, to express the narrative potential of sound. Soundwalk Collective has had longstanding collaborations with musician Patti Smith, film director Jean-Luc Godard, photographer Nan Goldin, choreographer Sasha Waltz, and singer and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg. Their latest original composition, composed for All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, a film directed by Laura Poitras, won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 2022.

In 2024, Soundwalk Collective, invited by the Fondation Cartier, presented and performed a three-day programme, Correspondences, with Patti Smith at the Venice International Film Festival. It was a journey through literature, art, philosophy, and the current state of our planet, in reaction to the impact of climate change.