SuperNature

SuperNature is a field notebook for listening. Eira Lindqvist recorded the sounds of nature for forty years and wrote it all down in a notebook. The last pages were left unfinished, and the notebook has found its way to you. LISTEN FIRST Real animals can be heard in every landscape: a tawny owl in the Irati beech forest at night, the gibbons of Borneo at dawn, the ice of a lake in Norway. You don’t look for them with your eyes. Listen for where the call is coming from, move the frame over to it and take the photo. Catch it singing and well centered, and the photo is better. A NOTEBOOK THAT FILLS UP Each photo becomes a card drawn in ink, with the scientific name, the voice, where it lives, a curious fact and its conservation status. The facts on the cards have been checked against sources. And on every page there is someone who appears in no field guide: that one you discover yourself, and you give it a name. SEVENTEEN LANDSCAPES Irati, the Sonoran Desert, Borneo, the Illas Cíes, Solvik in the Norwegian Arctic, the Serengeti, the Peruvian Amazon, the Azores, Raja Ampat, Antarctica, Iceland, Monteverde, Doñana, the Picos de Europa, the Fragas do Eume, Os Ancares… Nearly ninety cards, each with its own call. MORE IN THE NOTEBOOK • Eira’s tapes: how each place sounded decades ago. • The workshop: build a hydrophone to go down into the sea, a parabolic microphone or night-vision goggles. • The field recorder: record a real sound with the microphone and look at its drawing. • The terrarium: bring your animals together and hear how they share out the sound so as not to drown each other out. • Sound subtitles, for playing when you are hard of hearing or have the volume off. • Game Center achievements. YOUR IPHONE AS A CAMERA With the notebook on the iPad or the Mac, the iPhone acts as the camera: you aim by moving it and shoot from its screen. With the app on both and on the same Wi-Fi, they find each other on their own. NO HURRY There are no points, clocks or ads. It asks for no account and collects no data. It works offline. In Spanish, Galician, English, Portuguese, French, German, Italian and Japanese.