The recording starts at 7 am. It's raining a little. Close-up of swallows. Redwing(his dialect or subsong) and other birds can be recognized in the background. It is an interesting fact that the Swallow (Hirundo rustica) was chosen as the national bird of Estonia on November 26, 1962 in Tartu

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

Sharing the habitat with swallows one night. Soomaa National Park, Estonia May 23, 2021

Good headphones are recommended, as this is a binaural recording.

Black Swans amongst Australian Shelducks. Also, Grey Teals, Silver Gulls, Pacific Black Ducks, among others. An excerpt from a longer recording made between around 03:00 to 04:00, long before first light, in the Coorong region, near Narrung. Recent heavy rains inland have brought much fresh water downriver, reducing the salinity of the Coorong waters and adjacent lakes, which has resulted in a blessed influx of birds. The location of the recording is at least 15 kilometres from the Coorong, but traces of the Coorong's signature relentless deep roar are audible from here.

Recorded on land of the Ngarindjerri people that is now either National Park or privately owned pastoral land.

2022.02.20 Black Swans. Coorong. Night. Late Summer.

Commission work by Musica Assoluta for the project "Vortex #2, Pandemic Whirls".  The text of "I Wish You Be Negative" is from the instruction of SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Test produced by Roche,
- "Let the Birds Take Over"
- "I Wish You Be Negative"
- "We Are Always Connected"

"Let the Birds Take Over"

In the wolf forest close to Uppsala I placed a drop rig continuously recording for 48 hours and mixed it down to nine minutes. In the order they appear:
willow tit
crested tit
capercaillie, male flew past very close
pygmy owl
common scooter, two flocks migrating south
rain shower
WOLVES
pygmy owl
ural owl, female barking
jay
crested tit
raven landed close and walked around at the same time as WOLVES had a concert in the distance
crested tit
willow tit
Siggefora, Uppland. September 1 to 3, 2022.

Wolf forest from dusk to dawn

Emergence

For retuned mandolin, synthesizer, feedback and room resonance. The piece was not concieved as a winter soundscape but it all seems to make sense and the title too. Perhaps tomorrow there will be another new one with rebab (which I have been composing/preparing for all last week) and wind instruments, other captures. Who knows. It's like the weather. Checking in with you all tomorrow.

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Winter Serenity I

Acoustic Evening Mood

Zephyr - Electroacoustic Music

Begin quietly with this, as one of the Ravens will perch and call right in front of the microphones, before receding into the distance, again. While it's up close, listen for the quiet 'after-voicing' at the end of many of its calls.

2023.05.19 Australian Ravens (Corvus coronoides). Mallee Country. Morning. Late Autumn.

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L I J E L - voice  soundcloud.com/lijel
Thomas Sander - guitar, electronics
April 2020
a nice collaboration

Sharing the habitat with swallows one night. Soomaa National Park, Estonia May 23, 2021

Andrus Kannel