Concert crépusculaire de Bombina bombina (Sonneur à ventre de feu) dans une roselière mosellane, le 11/05/2022 (espèce introduite, découverte en 2009).
En plus de cet amphibien dont le chant sature l'espace sonore dans les graves, les autres espèces composant ce paysage sont notamment : Rougegorge familier, Grive musicienne, Merle noir, Râle d'eau, Gallinule poule d'eau, Troglodyte mignon, Grenouille commune (P. kl. esculentus), Grillon champêtre et Courtilière commune.
Malgré l'ambiance naturellement fournie, la pollution sonore arrive à s'immiscer ponctuellement (motos, avions).
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Dusk chorus of Bombina bombina (European fire-bellied toad) on 11/05/2022, in a Reed bed, in North-Eastern France (Moselle), where the species has been introduced (discovered in 2009). The other species composing this soundscape include: European Robin, Song Thrush, Common Blackbird, Water Rail, Eurasian Moorhen, Eurasian Wren, Green Frog (P. kl. esculentus), Eurasian Field Cricket and European Mole Cricket. Despite the naturally provided atmosphere, noise pollution is audible at times (motorcycles, planes).

Batrachophonie exotique en Lorraine

this collection of recordings was originally self released in 2006 as a limited edition of 100 CDrs, 50 of which were bound in leather. the first of these songs to be completed and released was “yarroway” on the “infernal proteus” compilation. i had discovered yarrow some years earlier and it had become one of my most important plant teachers. at the time i was also reading a lot of books on anthropology and remember being most strongly influenced by jared diamonds “guns germs and steel” especially that portion of the book describing “the great leap forward”. that moment in our collective history when our ancestors really began to spread out, build and travel to new places in rudimentary boats. when we began to encounter vast herds of massive animals who had up until this time had no meaningful interaction with their small rude distant cousins. who, in a few short millennia, drove them over the cliff of mass extinction. imagine it...! coursing along stampeding herds of animals weighing more than a thousand pounds each, heart in throat, screaming, waving arms, driving them un numbered to their deaths. this also reminds me of how, years earlier, i first hopped freight trains with a close friend. we were on an epic walkabout in the western united states, traveling with a bare minimum of gear and just the clothes on our backs. we spent long afternoons getting excited about the similarities, as we saw it, of catching a moving train to running down a buffalo, stabbing it with a spear and holding on for dear life... spending hours painting our faces we prepared
for the hunt... 
credits
released April 25, 2022

credits:

all songs arranged and recorded by jason hovatter 2001 thru 2005 in
portland and talent oregon.

instruments used on this recording include:
electric bass and guitar, various handmade and improvised drums,water, ebo, bull horns, bull roar, bells, singing bowls, glass, field recordings, a few samples from the movie “1984”, drum sequencer and digital editing software.
cover image from the mars rover “spirit” and insert photos by rhys balmer.
layout by jh.

prime

a minority of one - Prime - side A

Windy night and some sounds made by flags and old wooden dooors near by- recorded with one mic Neumann KMR82 Mono

Wind moving flags and old wood doors - ambient sound

Nightjars in the Swedish forest 22 May 2022

Sweden nightjars 1min

What you hear in this track are the very high pitched and ultrasonic parts of the crickets songs slowed down and brought into the audible spectrum. Originally these frequencies were mostly between 20 and 40 kHz, well beyond our normal hearing range. 
The result sounds quite unusual, a bit creepy and extraterrestrial but also very cool. It doesn't sound like crickets anymore, more like dinosaurs, I imagine... or a gang of drunk roosters... LOL

Ultrasonic cricket sounds  pitched down, 23-07-14-005

*significant PNW regional thunderstorm
*~8AM, Tacoma, WA, 5/30/2020
*lom usi pro stereo pair
*canvas tent/protected area

5-30-20-thunderstorm

Nature offers us easy access to space without time, to place as relationship, as teacher...

a minority of one - Prime - side A

learning from place

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