Meet the sound artist who's exploring the symphony of nature at Rocky Mountain National Park

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It’s a quiet early morning in Rocky Mountain National Park. As hikers walk on the Upper Beaver Meadows trail, artist Garrison Gerard stands at a nearby stream. He takes out a small buoy-like microphone connected to a cable. He’s holding what's called a hydrophone.

“When we put it in there, it's going to hear every little bit of sound,” he said. He lowers the cable into the water and puts on his headphones. Instead of hearing the sound of water flowing, the hydrophone picks up the vibrations in the water. It sounds kind of like a xylophone, making little “plink” noises that start as small bubbles and get louder and deeper.

“When you move it over rushing water, it's — not to be cliché — like a symphony of sounds,” he said. “You can play like a whole piece just moving around and just hearing the sounds of the different parts of the river.”

Rocky Mountain’s Artist-In-Residence program was on a seven-year hiatus due to needed repairs at the cabin and a change of leadership, but this summer, it's back.

Gerard was one of the six artists selected. But his “art” is different from a painting or a photograph. He records natural sounds of the earth and uses them in electronic or orchestral pieces.

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