Dunn starts off placing a new foundation for the term “music”. Rather than using music for entertainment he suggests we utilize it to decode the world in ways that our eyes could not have done.
Seperating sound from the physical sense reveals how nature and communication share a relationship. Removing the physical sense gives sound no location avoiding isolation to a place in the world when it relates to every sense of the environment around us.
Dunn’s experiments on sound and nature test the impact that human inflicted sound has on species in the wilderness whether its in reaction to the human or communicating to its own species. Carrying out tests with Mockingbirds demonstrated how artificial sounds were as worthy as sounds from other Mockingbirds to the species when attempting to recreate the sounds.
Upon a soundscape experiment, Dunn finds the reality behind forests and safaris that reveal how dependant wildlife is to humans. Instead of creating a soundscape with sounds from native South Africa animals, Dunn is able to use human produced sounds to speak on the changing environment and its spirit driven through affected animals.
In another experiment Dunn describes the sounds under “the membrane” of a pond. The sounds aren’t definite but instead tell people that the animals are simply aware of eachother even if they aren't able to decode the true meaning behind every animal's form of communication. Dunn accepts the fact that it's impossible to figure out what other animals are communicating and describes them almost as beautiful aliens. It isn't necessary to know everything about life on Earth.