Nature buff’s passion project takes him to wide open spaces, recording sounds of Hong Kong

At a hiking trail by Kowloon Reservoir in Kam Shan Country Park, Andrew Kan Hei-chun faces off with a troop of monkeys.The sound designer is not on a mission to trap or feed the rhesus macaques. Instead, he is trying to record their soft calls, as part of a project to create a “sound map” of Hong Kong.“I’m worried the country parks might be destroyed at any point, either by hill fires or development. Nature could disappear anytime,” he said.Kan, 26, a freelance sound designer and engineer…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3092775/nature-buffs-passion-project-takes-him-wide-open