Name: The Fog Came From Nowhere by Complex Waveform
Duration: 6 min 2 s
Description: Drone Ambient created with my new hardware noise synth.

10 minutes by car from my house there three wind turbines on top af a hill. I’ve been planning to go there for a little while. Yesterday I had the opportunity to go and the weather was with me.
I wanted to listen to the towers using my LOM audio Geofon’s - and did so on track 1, 2 and 5. Track 3 and 6 are stereo recordings from right underneath the wings and track 4 is from a shed approximately halfway between the turbines…

1 Wind Turbines Geofon And Ambient Sound

My first serious attempt to gather ambiences from nature. These were recorded in late May & early June 2020 at a tree farm in southwestern Wisconsin, USA. 

I've left aircraft or other vehicle sounds in at times as there's precious little silence left in the world.

2020 Tree Farm - 06 Peters Farm Mark Stand Bp4025

A recording was taken at Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary. There is a main highway located next to the Sanctuary so I have been recording during slow times to minimize the hum of traffic as much as possible.

Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary 01 (MixPre-3ii, BP4025)

This was recorded in East Sooke Park on Vancouver Island. It was a fairly windy day with not many people around.

Windy East Sooke Park (MixPre-3ii, BP4025)

This recording was taken at Beacon Hill Park in Victoria BC. Great Blue Herons come to nest during the Spring. The park is inside the city so traffic hum and other city noises can be heard.

Great Blue Herons Nesting in Beacon Hill Park 01 (MixPre-3ii, BP4025)

A stereo ambience of an empty school corridor. It is recorded during summer vacation. 
Gear used: SD833, Neumann KM184 ORTF (track_1), Schoeps MK4 (Track_2).  You can download and use the tracks on any commercial or personal project.

Empty School Corridor, Summer Vacation, Neumann KM184 ORTF 1, Schoeps MK4 ORTF 2(96 24)

"Quiet School Ambiences" is a library that is recorded in several schools in Bulgaria (Eastern Europe) during summer vacation. They are old and have a characteristic sound with creaking doors and interesting spaces, corridors, rooms, toilets, a basement and even an attic inhabited by many pigeons. Some of the tracks were recorded in a school located in a small town and there is almost no noise from heavy traffic, only a few birds. Another part of the atmospheres were recorded in a big city very close to a main boulevard and you will hear heavy traffic. In some of the tracks there is light human activity from teachers on duty or security, footsteps, distant voices, etc.
The library includes several doors with a specific sound recorded from a classroom and from a corridor because the reverberation is different. You will also hear lights turning on and off. Much of the library was recorded with two stereo setups at the same time, usually in different directions (corridors and bathrooms) or different configurations (doors).

Quiet School Ambiences Library Preview

Drone Ambient created with my new hardware noise synth.

The Fog Came From Nowhere

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Recorded July 12, 2012 in a birch & pine forest on the slopes of Val Veddasca (Italy, Varese, Lombardia) at about 1100m altitude, about 6pm, on an overcast, gray windy day.   AT4025 mic into Olympus LS-100 recorder, mic input 'hi', gain 7.   Post: HPF at about 300 Hz and an overall 6 db increase in volume.   

Although the Blackcap is a very common bird in this area, this may be of interest for those contemplating the AT BP4025 mic.  It's OK for a quick draw, easy setup mic for use on the run while hiking.   This forest was full of individual singing birds that would go on and on and on...  too bad I didn't have the parabolic mic with me (it's not that easy to travel with a parabolic dish).   This is not my usual recording area, so I am not 100% sure of the bird ID.  In the background there are distant church bells and assorted other noises.

Birch-pine forest - Val Veddasca (Italy) - Capinera (Blackcap) - (AT BP4025)

Minimal drone,  ambient, modular synth music, sound design.

The Fog Came From Nowhere

Complex Waveform

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