DJs inspired by nature

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The music began long before humans arrived. Rivers carried their basslines downstream, insects beat time in the dusk, and birds poured their arias into the dawn. For Dominik Eulberg, who grew up without radio or television, this was the only soundtrack. “Nature for me is the greatest artist of all,” he said. When he later discovered synthesizers, they felt less like inventions of silicon and circuitry than another register of the same ancient score. Eulberg, an ecologist by training and DJ by trade, has made it his vocation to let those hidden symphonies be heard, reports contributor Manuel Fonseca for Mongabay. At festivals along the Main in Frankfurt, he lay