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).
---------
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

FIELD notes

A1. dawn, just before a summer sunrise at Sauvie Island Wildlife Area... blue quail, ring neck doves, redwing blackbirds, bull frogs, pacific chorus frogs.
A2. beaver creek at Hopkins Demonstration Forest. Oregon coast
,Short Sand Beach tide pool and mussle bed… mussels releasing pressure, water, air? little crab scuttling around small fish, starfish green anemone? rain on the shore of the Puget Sound... a small prop airplane unseen above.
A3. grackles, cardinal duets or Joyce… morning. mom passes. Night Hawks… new species new sounds, big foot walk with kids, Maryland
toad chorus pairing sounds that have familiar feelings, cicada.
A4. back to Puget Sound Campbient, morning walk in dark/heavy rain/bear tracks. setting up under tree… prop plane bassy in the dark. noise pollution? used to filter it out but later feels dishonest and sometimes beautiful and relevant. night time crickets again, train at Smith and
Bybee ponds while harvesting ice storm windfall Cottonwood buds. transition sounds… train moves on and cicadas come in.
A5. cicadas Brood X and Scissor Grinder (excellent name!) bee tree Farragut Park, old leaning hollow cedar on sunny summer day coming and going bumping into the mic….
A6. Canadian Geese, rw black birds, marsh birds, ducks, coots, this years first serious attempts at field recording. Heavy frost crisp morning..Sandhill Cranes fly by...Laying on the cold ground with headphones on, unfocused on the usual daily things, very present as an individual, me, Jason, just dosent exist.. my daily concerns, obligations, cares, work.. non of it exists.

B1. tug boat pushing a massive barge of crushed stone up the Columbia River… noise pollution again but also somehow fits, makes sense… provides context that’s terrifying but also comforting. flickers and wood peckers, two airplanes cross the sky one going north the other south, for a moment they sync up and become one sound then get out of phase with one another and dissolve away.
B2. St Johns Bridge color of oxidized copper? Geofon seismic electromagnetic junction boxes unheard daily sounds passing thru objects…. putting my ear up to structure …early morning traffic, cow bird pebbles dropping in water morning cardinal songs… heron flys by crows, geese.
B3. osprey and bald eagle dive for fish and rain clouds blow in …cowbirds dropping pebbles eternal geese and cows “Sauvie Island Cowlife Area”… rain on recorder. i often leave a small drop rig somewhere and often is more compelling than the subject I went to record.
B4. Assateague Island morning waves, scouring, on a visit with family in
MD a few weeks after mom passed, beach
day I stood/floated up to my neck in the surf and the relentless pounding scouring feeling of salt water is cleansing… i included an extended passage here because it takes time to lose yourself… went back early next morning with dad to record with out people… sand crabs, mosquitoes, horses, campers, smoldering camp fire.
B5. Sauvie Island Bridge Geofon and contact mic, hydrophone in river…i pass over this bridge so often…cricket, toad, cicada chorus … the way the toads change pitch… literally all night long where I grew up… i can hear them get fatigued after hours of singing….
B6. central Oregon Carpenter Ants crawling and biting. i accidentally disturbed them and stuck the Geofon spike down into the bark paired with cicada and birdsong.

credits:
field recordings by jason hovatter april
thru september 2021 primarily in and around Portland, Oregon as well as
Camp Sherman Oregon, the Oregon Coast, Delmar
Maryland and Assateauge Island National Seashore.
these recordings are dedicated to the memory of my mother Joyce Ann
Hovatter who passed away this summer. 
credits
released April 26, 2022

FIELD spring/summer 21

FIELD spring/summer 21 mixtape

Jason Hovatter - FIELD - spring/summer 21 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...

Jason Hovatter - FIELD - spring/summer 21 Side A

learning from place

Related tracks