Jean C. Roché

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Jean-Claude Roché (born May 11, 1931 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) is a French ornithologist and bird song / bioacoustics researcher. He mainly publishes media with bird calls.

Life

Jean C. Roché was born the son of the writer and art collector Henri-Pierre Roché and his lover, the art bookseller Denise Charlotte Henriette Renard (1894–1982). As a child he was interested in insects and read all ten volumes of Jean-Henri Fabre's work Souvenirs Entomologiques .

For decades, Jean Roché used sound recordings to document various bird calls on his travels. This created a sound library with over seven thousand hours of recordings. The Sitelle publishing house, which he founded in 1985 (merged with the Frémeaux et Associés label ), published around 100 records , cassettes and CDs . His first album Oiseaux de Camargue (1958) was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque of the Académie Charles-Cros in the category "Documentation". In 1990 he founded the Center d'Etudes Bioacoustiques Alpin (CEBA) in Banne . In 2010 he separated from his publishing house Sitelle and from CEBA and has been working alone again since then.

Publications (selection)

  • with Hans-Peter Bögel (Erz.); Eckart Pott (Aut.): Birdsong in the forest, park and garden. Calls and chants; 80 bird calls; 2 hours of listening experience. Franckh, Stuttgart 1988. ISBN 978-3-440-05951-7
  • The most beautiful bird calls in the world. 24 bird calls from all over the world; 60 minutes bird concert. Franckh, Stuttgart 1988.
  • with Hans-Peter Bögel (Erz.); Theodor Mebs (Aut.): The voices of the birds of prey and owls of Europe. Calls u. Chants; 2 hours of listening experience. Franckh, Stuttgart 1989.
  • with Richard Podloucky (Aut.): Frog concert at the garden pond. Watch and protect our frogs and toads. With the calls of all local frogs and toads on CD. Edited by Gunter Steinbach , Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2001. ISBN 978-3-440-08574-5
  • with Eckart Pott (Aut.): Who is singing there? The Kosmos bird song course with CD. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 978-3-440-09457-0
  • with Daniela Strauss (Aut.): Birds in our garden. Observe, hear & determine. Nature guide with 60 life-size garden birds plus CD with bird songs. Weltbild, Augsburg 2005. ISBN 978-3-828-93999-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magali Laure Nieradka: The master of soft tones. Franz Hessel biography. Igel Verlag, 2014, p. 90.
  2. ↑ a b biography. Atana.fr.
  3. ↑ Anne-Marie Paquotte (Télérama.fr.): Jean C. Roché (audio-naturaliste). Frémeaux et Associés.
  4. ^ FM (Le Dauphiné Libéré): "Le Ceba: un center unique au monde". Frémeaux et Associés.
personal data
SURNAME Roché, Jean C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roché, Jean-Claude (full name); Roché, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ornithologist and bird song / bioacoustics researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt