Walter Tilgner

Walter Tilgner is a German biologist and nature sound recordist, born in 1934 in Olmütz (now Olomouc, Czech Republic). Self-taught in sound recording, he began taping animal voices in the early 1970s and in the 1980s turned to digital binaural recording with a dummy-head microphone in the forests around Lake Constance. He is known for the series of nature sound albums he has released on Wergo. Tilgner's Waldkonzert (Wergo, 1985) was the first album of the series.