Quiet midnight campfire on the Oregon coast with waves and frogs in the background. Stereo recording, use headphones

Midnight campfire on the Oregon coast

I performed a Mid-Side test by inserting a Primo EM283 figure-eight microphone and a PUI AOM 5024 omnidirectional microphone into a 53 cm diameter parabolic dish.

MID - SIDE AOM5024 + EM283 figure 8 Parabolic Microphone Blackcap Song

WalkingSteps

Echoing through a flooded cypress tree forest, first a Barred Owl hoots, and then joins a second to fuss back and forth. Deep voiced Pig Frogs and shrill crickets are a sonic backdrop. Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, August 2022, recorded with Usi Pro omni pair and Zoom F3 recorder.

Owl Swamp

Rain In Valcerina

I sat with the forest. I sat far farther back from the overlooking edge seen in this photo. I didn't watch, I only listened.
I was deeply touched by the inexorable reality that, 'before' and 'after', which are but an imagination, nothing whatsoever had changed; nothing whatsoever COULD change. Business will grind on as usual, of course.
In the recording, if you listen from beginning to end, the sounds will tell the truth: both metaphorically, metaphysically, and quite literally.
Whatever will be 'new' - truly, existentially 'new' - must come, and can ONLY come, fundamentally, from us: our own minds, our own actions, our own ways of being.

Related yet unrelated track: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20191231-to-20200101-small-city-new-year-as-heard-from-far-away

2022.12.31 - 2023.01.01. What the Forest Heard.

(Best listened to with good quality headphones, in a quiet environment, at low to mid volume. Be warned: the dynamics occasionally explode, particularly in the form of Black-winged Currawongs.)

This recording is an early result of experimenting with a pair of omnidirectional and a pair of supercardioid microphones in parallel. The omnis absorb the environing atmospheric ambience, the supercardioids capture a selective and narrower focus of detail. (No processing.)

2023.01.08 Awakening Pine Forest. First Light. Summer.

Wood Thrush// 220426// some handling and anthropophonic noise// recorded by pointing the built-in mics at a bird singing from a tree nearby.

Wood Thrush

Fox Barking

An evening at the local wetland, punctuated by a symphony of spring peepers and an occasional round of applause from the resident beavers.

Interlude - Beavers And Peepers

As I was getting ready to leave the Sumter National Forest, I heard a field cricket chirping in a clear-cut area. I sneaked up as quietly and as closely as I could to capture this recording of a cricket. I was surprised that only one cricket was chirping, but it made for a very focused and detailed field recording. 

This is just an excerpt from a much longer, 23 minute recording. This area was so quiet, I was able to record the chirping cricket for a long time without any noise pollution. 

Recorded with a DIY binaural SASS recording rig with Primo EM-172 microphone capsules. I use this setup paired with an Olympus LS-10 recorder for a low budget, low noise option. 

Thank you for listening ♫

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Cricket and Woodpecker Recording @ Sunset | Ambient Nature Field Recording

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Cricket and Woodpecker Recording @ Sunset | Ambient Nature Field Recording

Jared Blake

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