This is so good for my tinnitus. I enjoy your recordings Jarred, thank you.

Something that can be such a hindrance (to me at least) can be so captivating when as well.  Ive been playing around with different setups trying to actually record the wind, or it’s effect on nature.  

That way im able to use them and they would be more inconspicuous.  

My field recordings capture the sounds of nature as we really hear them. This means recording 3D Binaural Soundscapes. To do this, I use a stereo ambient sampling system (SASS) with ultra low noise microphones. This system mimics the properties of a human head and ears so that it “hears” what we do.

I have spent many days and countless hours seeking these pure soundscapes. It is not easy to find areas without noise pollution. I am proud to share these field recordings with you. Check out my other playlists for genre-specific nature sounds.

Thank you for your interest in pure, natural sounds. To experience these recordings as 3D environments of sound, please use headphones. Unplug from your daily stress and reconnect with nature’s healing music. 

To learn more about me and my work, please visit www.acousticnature.com

Thank you for listening! ♪

Relaxing Nature Sounds Playlist | Binaural Field Recording Album

The evening of my 5th and final night in the Chattahoochee National Forest brought extreme winds. I setup an LS-10 with a SASS microphone near my camp to capture the ambience. 

This 25min segment is the highlight of the powerful winds that swept over the ridge that night. 

During spring of 2021, I spent 5 nights camping in and recording the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia (4/18 - 4/23). Specifically, I was at the Lake Conasauga overflow campground.

Lake Conasauga is an artificial lake that is very popular with fishing people and camping families. Due to this popularity, I knew before I arrived that I didn't want to camp on the lake itself. As predicted, the lake was very busy (noisy) with people during my stay.

The overflow campground was quiet, empty, and was the location of the songbird trailhead; a trail leading to a mountain pond created by beavers. The area around the pond is managed by the Forest Service for bird diversity.

This trip was the longest period I've ever gone with zero human interaction in my life. From Sunday evening to Friday afternoon, the only people I saw were driving by the campground on the gravel road, and even then there were few vehicles. 

This area within the Chattahoochee blessed me with so many amazing experiences and sounds. By my last day I was filled with so much love and appreciation for the land. I've never felt more connected with our planet.

Please enjoy this presentation of one of the most peaceful places on Earth. Thank you for listening, until later ☼

30+ MPH Wind - Beautiful and Powerful Soundscape (7:45pm) - LS-10 w/SASS

Alphaxone (Iran) & ProtoU (Ukraine) join forces on Back to Beyond, the long awaited follow up to their space ambient masterpiece Stardust.

"Floating nutrition for your feline stowaway hits you amidst a sullen slumber. You jolt awake in the pilot seat and you hear the unearthly droning of your vessel. You look back and see the curious cat, leaping from wall to wall in zero-G snatching food pellets mid-air. The damn cat must have malfunctioned the kitty feeder again. This is why you normally leave her aboard the mothership, but no one knows how long this recon will take. Just a particle drifting in a never-ending expanse beyond reason. Golden dust shouldn’t be able to spread this far out from the wormhole. You realize the cat is safer with you and your sanity is safe with her. Those tincan AIs on the mothership know nothing of caring for a feline. In the cold heart of space, biologicals stick together, don’t they?"

Recommended for fans of Space Ambience, Atmospheric layering and harmonic drone.

Back to Beyond

Bandcamp

Dreams of Solace

Watch Video + Read Blog → https://acousticnature.com/journal/pachaug-state-forest-nature-sounds 

Full Album: https://soundcloud.com/acousticnature/sets/the-sounds-of-pachaug-state-forest 

In celebration of the Equinox, I camped and recorded nature sounds in the Pachaug State Forest in Connecticut on September 22nd, 2021.

Although Connecticut is my home state, this was my first overnight field recording trip. That's because Connecticut is not a great state for recording quiet nature sounds. Connecticut has zero national forests, zero national parks (not counting historic sites), and zero BLM land.

Since the Pachaug State Forest is the largest forest in the state (27,000 acres), I thought it was my best chance at recording silence. Although I did capture some noise pollution free sounds, it was challenging and most of my recordings were polluted even late into the night, primarily by vehicle noise. 

Most of these recordings were made possible thanks to rain and wind overpowering the noise pollution, rendering it inaudible.

Recording Gear Used:
Olympus LS-10
Olympus LS-10s
SASS Microphone
Telinga Modular Parabolic Microphone
JrF D-Series Hydrophone

Windy Pond at Night Ambience | SASS

🎧 Great Horned Owls Territory Battle | SASS

This is the most silent ambience I've recorded to date. Captured in an old growth forest in the White Mountains National Forest during Autumn, there are no sounds other than gentle wind blowing through the trees. 

The full recording is 1 hr 33 min and features nothing but occasional leaves moving and tree branches knocking into each other. 

Thanks for listening ♫

Windy Forest Soundbed (9:24pm) | LS-10 w/SASS

While exploring my local woodland during Winter Storm Bobby on 1/29/2022, I noticed a particularly loud and frequent creaking and popping coming from a large, dual-trunked yellow popular, Liriodendron tulipifera.

Upon further inspection, I found the popular was hollow and had a large, vertical crack running about 25' up the trunk. 

I setup my SASS microphone directly in front of the cavity and recorded for about an hour.

Unfortunately, a snow blower polluted most of the recording but I was able to capture about 20 minutes of pure tree creaks and pops! This recording is an excerpt from that longer file.

I plan to revisit this tree during every major wind storm with the hope of capturing the moment that it gives way and returns to the forest floor...stay tuned :)

Thanks for listening ♫

Tree Creaks Inside a Yellow Popular

Here in New England, Winter Storm Bobby brought over a foot of snow and winds in excess of 35mph to the landscape.

The storm started late Friday night (1/28/2022) and dropped about 3 inches of snow. 

Saturday was the main event with the heaviest snowfall occurring between 8am and 1pm at a rate of just over 1" per hour.

Luckily, I live within walking distance to a woodland and spent about 4 hours exploring and recording the storm. 

This recording is an excerpt from 45min recording from atop a ridgeline. Without a tripod due to packing light, I balanced my microphone against an old tree riddled with woodpecker holes and captured the sound of the wind. 

My favorite part of this recording is the almost sand-like texture the snow and ice add to the wind as it blows across the landscape. 

Thanks for listening.

Winter Wind And Snow | Winter Storm Bobby

Spirit Catcher

Beyond The Great Barrier

From Canadian duo Northumbria (Jim Field and Dorian Williamson) comes this guitar based ambient drone album. This album is the product of recording sessions during late 2013 and most of 2014, and was heavily inspired the Norse discovery of Baffin Island in Canada over a thousand years ago. The Vikings called this new discovery Helluland... "the land of flat stone" in Old Norse.

Song for Freyja

2: When, Where, Why

https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-seers

Tomb of Seers is the second album in the "Tomb" series, the first one being Tomb of Empires: cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-empires 

4 ambient artists join forces to delve deep into history. Explore gargantuan mystical monuments and the root of occultism. Visit secret orders and meditate in front of crumbling stone temples. Open your third eye and dig into the ancient core of clairvoyance. 

Dark drone and huge walls of sound takes you to far away places lost in time.

Written, Produced, Performed: 
Council of Nine 
Alphaxone 
Xerxes The Dark 
Wolves and Horses

Tomb of Seers

Alphaxone - Witchcraft

Interstellaris

Beyond the Ghost returns with an album ripe with film-like ambience and sonic details from abandoned cityscapes.

You get trapped in the loop of time and you'll get spat out into a world molded by your own thoughts, purgatory. The skyscrapers cast shadows so deep that the flickering neon lights strobe your tired movements. You must have walked these streets a thousand times before, searching for someone, anyone. The cold wind hits your smooth face, it should have been bearded by now, but time is glitched out here. Everything is frozen, but you keep moving, chasing your own shadow.

Recommended for fans of foggy soundscapes, acoustic layering and Silent Hill atmospheres.

Eternal Drift

Becoming one with Darkness

Tineidae (Poland) serves us a space ambient album thick with analogue sweeps and evolving walls of sound.

The derelict mothership is massive, its silent shadow swallowing your cutter-ship as you connect with the airlock. Inside, rusted bulkheads sing like whales from deep within as they reverberate with lumbering creaks. Your flashlight flickers in the dark as you wipe the smudge off a wall-mounted map. Better get the power online or you'll never be able to access the backup logs. NG-section is two floors down. Time for another spacewalk.

Your MD-233 exosuit gets you climbing the ship's exterior with little effort. Parts of the ship have been blown off, scattered across space from the impact all those years ago, revealing the skeletal remains of the eco-hub and launch pad. Makes you wonder what happened to those left behind without food. The distressed messages coming out of there were censored, but it must have been bad for them to have brought in a black market contracter to wipe them from the mainframe before the repair crew arrives.

Recommended for fans of space journeys, supernovas and arpeggiated swells.

Epilogue

Sky Burial

All albums available for "Name Your Price" on BandCamp (personal listening use only). Please contact me to license my recordings.

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