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

Wisdom Of Sacred Writings | Album 'WANDERER IN THE COLORFUL FIELDS'

This was all played on guitar - the bell-like notes were a product of the tape delay degradation of the TC Electronic Triple Delay and a lot of patience.

loop 11110

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

Mollnacht ... Moloko + 111
http://www.molokoplusrecords.de/finder.php?folder=Label&content=104

Mollnacht

Wellengang

Wellengang ... ( Winterberg )

During a severe wind storm, I revisited the yellow popular from this winter storm recording: https://soundcloud.com/acousticnature/tree-creaks-inside-an-oak

This time, I stuck a pair of EM272 microphones inside the tree cavity instead of putting my SASS in front of the opening. I mainly did this to protect the mics from the heavy rains that came during the night. 

I was really amazed at how well the tree insulated the mics from the outer world's sounds. Even the torrential downpour we received sounded like a gentle drizzle. 

When I popped the SD card into my computer the next morning, I was surprised that the popular made less noise than the previous recording, despite the increased wind speeds. 

I think this may have been due to 2 things: the warmer weather and deeper cracking along the the main trunk. I believe both these factors gave the tree more "wiggle-room" and caused less direct rubbing.

This recording is a compilation of 27 interesting clips throughout the night ranging in length from 3-111 seconds. 

Thanks for reading and listening ♫

Tree Creaks Compilation | 50mph Gusts

Three different moments within a quiet windless night. This is not an exceptional recording but I like the atmosphere anyway.
A howl, a fox and a blackbird can be heard as well as a frog and probably some rodents close to the tripod.
The microphones and the recorder have been left the whole night.
The photo has been shot in the morning when I came back to pick the stuff up.

Recorded with a Nagra Ares BB+, Neumann KM184, ORTF near my house, in la Creuse, France.

220725 A Quiet Night in the Woods

Long-time collaborator Marco Lucchi provides sublime, longform pieces (most 15+ minutes), which Henrik has carefully imbued with his cello.

ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/suggestiva

Featuring artwork from Luca Lionello, it touches on ancient mystic ideas and sentiment, attempting the impossible task of touching the sublime through art.

Suggestiva

CD & Download

Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Tides (Streaming Edit)

I believe that music is present in every moment, in every scene. We can feel music relatively easily when those scenes are easy to understand and impressive, of course, but when they are not, for example, I think this is especially true in situations that are too mundane, too ordinary, or seemingly unrelated to music.

I can never hear it, but I think I hear it. Only after it has taken shape as a piece of music do I feel that this is how it must have sounded at the time. And the question of whether it was right or not will never be answered. But by questioning things that are becoming just a shell and looking at things from a different angle, we can gain a new perspective.

Questions always come up and I try to answer them somehow, but they always elude me. So by continuing to create my work, I manage to find my own answers to different questions at different times.

In this day and age, when all that is valued is how easy, quick and simple it is to get answers, it would be nice to have a few more people who are willing to face questions that will never be answered.

Produced by Hidekazu Imashige
Cover Art by Hidekazu Imashige

Angle of Light

The Room Van Gogh's Paintings on Display

Now available on tape, and as a pre-order on CD. 

Recorded by øjeRum (Paw Grabowski; https://soundcloud.com/oejerum).
Post-production by Andrew Chalk.
Mastered by Jos Smolders (EARLabs). https://soundcloud.com/earlabs

Released on glass-mastered CD in a 6-panel digipak, featuring 7 collages from øjeRum’s Silent Figure With Landscape series.

An Image of a Bird Seconds Before It Appears

øjeRum – An Image of a Bird Seconds Before It Appears [first 6 minutes]

Single tapeloop on Tascam MF-P01 Portastudio. Recorded live to Ableton Live.

Det är alldeles för sent

Really pleased that this track found a home on the last edition of Eilean Recs' Various Artist roundup. 

Date : 28.12.17 
Map point : eilean 100 
Color : white / grey 
Season : winter 
Edition : limited to 175 copies

Various Artists (eilean 100)

'So Far' - Various Artists, Eilean 100, [Eilean Rec, 2019]

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

Winter Wind And Snow | Winter Storm Bobby

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