2021/04/06
Onno (LC) - Italy
SD Mixpre-6 II, AT BP4025

Strong Wind in the Trees on a Spring Morning

an ordinary day

While working on a documentary project in Addis Ababa, I was lucky enough to visit several natural sites in Ethiopia. This is a recording from Lake Langano, where many birds and other animals live. 

I was recording on the shore near the fishing village, which you can hear softly in the background. At that time, children were bathing and having fun.

March 2021. Recorded together with Lucia Nimcova.

Early morning on Lake Langano, Ethiopia

This is a compilation preview of my second album from Alam-Pedja which is available here: https://andruskannel.bandcamp.com/album/alam-pedja-soundscapes-in-an-abandoned-farmhouse-nature-recordings

This is my second album that contains nature recordings from the Alam-Pedja nature reserve from Estonia. When the first album presented with ​​how Alam-Pedja sounds through the year and in different habitats then the concept of this album is one day and in one selected location in Alam-Pedja. All recordings are made in the yard of an abandoned farmhouse located in a deep forest. I'll listen one day through audio recordings I made in May 2020 and 2021

Some information about the old farmhouse. The farmhouse was built for forest workers in 1938 during the time of the first Estonian republic. Up to 15 people lived there at the same time in 1956 and in 2004 the last resident of this farm died. Since then, the farm is empty.

Equipment:
Tascam Dr-100 MK III digital recorder
An Azden microphone pre-amplifier/mixer
Handmade phantom powered Primo Microphones with EM172 capsules. 24 bit 48kHz

released June 15, 2021

Preview of a nature recording album: Alam-Pedja soundscapes in an abandoned farmhouse

Night falls in the Serengeti-Mara savanna. The deep calls of lions resonate through the plains while a hippo lazily moves in the water hole nearby. A thick insect chorus creates a constant background while distant Eagle and Scops owls can be heard occasionally.  Long version at https://youtu.be/STVEYauGOU4

Dusk in the Serengeti

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Retreat

Retreat [disquiet0435]

Closely placed microphones capture a single Squirrel Tree Frog leading a night time chorus of amphibians singing in shallow flooded prairie of Everglades National Park, Florida. Recorded August 2020 with matched pair Line Audio CM3 cardioid microphones in NOS stereo & Sound Devices MixPre-3. About 63 Db gain, no low cut filter.

Squirrel Frog Leads Chorus

(Best listened to with good quality headphones with a flat frequency response.)

2020.08.31 Pine Forest. Winter/Spring. Midnight Magpies.

In the still, quiet night air of the Olympic National Park's  Queets Rain Forest river valley, a lone Barred Owl sings from a nearby tree. It's voice echoing off the majestic trees of this old-growth rain forest, it calls longingly, awaiting an answer from the darkness that may never come.

Strix Varia

spectral weirdness with the rossum panharmonium (feat. harvesttech)

two oscillators from a piston honda mk3 are sequenced by two tracks of the stillson hammer mk2. piston feeds two vcas onboard the double andore mk1 and are operated by each's respective envelope shape. the mix out from the andore feeds the panharmonium (which receives modulation for bandwidth, and voice count from a kermit mk3, as well as glide amount from a stillson hammer mk1.)

panharm feeds a bastl tromso (modulated by kermit mk3) which in turn feeds a polivoks filter (again modulated by kermit mk3)

polivoks feeds a tyme sefari mk2, which has record and playback vc'd by stillson hammer mk1 triggers, and is pitch shifted (up) via a diy expander from yet another hammer mk1 trigger (hammer is operating in its secondary random mode with a 'stillson nail' at the trigger input) 

the wet/dry out from sefari feeds a doepfer mixer, and the wet-only output feeds a kuzminorgel with low stability dialed, which also feeds another channel of the doepfer mixer, and in turn, an fx aid for a touch of reverb.

the polivoks, tromso and tyme sefari effect amount are not engaged/dialed-in on this demo until the panharmoium is fully wet at 0:20 in. the two sequences cv range and timing are altered slightly throughout by hand.

Preview of a nature recording album: Alam-Pedja soundscapes in an abandoned farmhouse

Andrus Kannel