Reissue of the Week: Henning Christiansen’s Symphony Natura
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Why Listen to Animals? asks Francis Gooding after immersing himself in some questionable musique concrète Symphony Natura by Henning Christiansen and Lorenzo Mammi "The zoo", wrote John Berger in a 1977 essay called 'Why Look At Animals?', "cannot but disappoint". The purpose of the visit is to see the animals, to look at them, but the animals always avoid being seen: they are bunched up at the edge of their enclosures, they are lethargic, they are hidden in their sleeping quarters, they are indifferent to the visitor. Berger was writing about the scopic regime of the zoological garden: it is
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