I began hearing rumors from afar of a strange man who lived with the animals, talked with the animals and indeed walked with the animals. I immediately conferred with my sources. And true enough, the Web site I stumbled on proclaimed — this dude lives with wolves.

Though we often think of acoustic folk and electronica as being musical opposites, they both tend to result from an artist's desire to create something immediate and personal using a single instrument -- a guitar, a piano, a computer.