Erdtöne

As song birds and other aquatic birds wake up, loons communicate at 3 AM across Dore Lake in remote Saskatchewan, Canada. Recorded May 2025 with Sony PCM-M10 & pair Clippy EM272 0mnidirectinal microphones in A - B attached to opposite sides of tree trunk a few yard from lake shore.

Languid Loons On Peaceful Lake

A kangaroo feeding; Bronzewings softly ooming; a Fantailed Cuckoo beautifully churring; a brief, gentle shower of rain. Early summer dawn in Western River Wilderness Protection Area. 

(In this revised version, sounds of direct contact between raindrops and the microphones - which sounded like raindrops striking one's ears - have been removed.)

2024.12.09 Rain and Fan-tailed Cuckoo. Western River. Early Summer.

Recorded under cliffs in Alps - no wind was that night so there was almost complete silence . 
Owls and later falling rocks from cliffs which was maybe trigger by some animal walking high above microphones.
Edited with EQ 
Microphones ORTF Mkh40 Sennheiser
Recorder Zoom F6
Slovenia Alps
10192025

Autumn Night Under Slovenian Alps – Owls and Falling Rocks from Cliffs

Fruition

Audio Drama Sound Design Reel

Snowy night with strong wind and big temperature drops....in night that place went from warm to frozen. And microphones placed there for one night and day capture everything....when all droplets went silent as water froze, strong wind from North and heavy snow sticking on trees. Next day when sun start shine snow on trees starts melting and ice particles falling from trees. There are some big rocks falls also. 
Kamnik Alps
Zoom F3 recorder, Earsight Microphones , Edit :EQ

Winter is coming -soundrecording - Kamnik Alps - Mix 1

This is the second half of a thunderstorm recording made in open flat mallee country. The wide open flatness of the land, the low height and the low density of the mallee gums, with their naturally wide spacing, makes this an excellent venue for enjoying the atmospheric acoustics of thunder. In the first half of the recording, the early-morning thunderstorm approaches gradually from the west; and in this half, it nears and arrives at the recording location.

Just as the storm arrived (the final peal of thunder in this recording), it suddenly and completely ceased and fell silent, and rain set in for the next couple of hours, in intermittent waves. Then, the rain also dissipated and ceased, leaving a beautifully pungent earthy scent in the air, and the hues of the orange-red soil and of all of the variegated flora looking so much deeper, darker, and richer. Throughout this whole time, the air remained remarkably still and calm.

Recorded respectfully on land that was originally the home country of the Ngadjuri and Danggali peoples.**

**Optional extra reading and critical reflective thinking: This land was not 'purchased' under some 'real estate deal' or 'agreement'. It was simply,  bluntly, and forcibly taken away from those who belonged to the land itself - and to whom, therefore, the land itself had in all ways belonged - for uncountable millennia. It was then handed down, during the subsequent couple of centuries, from one generation to the next, amongst those who had taken it. This recognition and statement of unquestionable and undeniable truth does not imply any personal disrespect or animosity towards the current landholders; but it does very consciously raise some very deep and consequential questions that have never, to date, been fundamentally and properly addressed, let alone contemplated or answered, let alone assimilated into contemporary cultural consciousness, and acted upon. If the currently dominant/dominating culture had ever truly and deeply comprehended, and thus had been inwardly changed by, the lessons at hand in its own very brief and dark history, this country would not now be experiencing a 'housing crisis', on the back of a huge 'greed spike' in the housing market. It would understand the meaning of land, and the meaning of life itself, so very, very differently. Alas, this has not - and, I believe, will never - come to be so. Contemporary dominant/dominating humanity is simply not capable of such enlightenment and transformation. QED. [I am creating more trouble for myself, I know. But I cannot help but say what I believe to be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.]**

Original file 96/32 wav, converted to mp3 for upload here.

2025.11.22 Thunderstorm Arriving. Mallee Country. Late Spring. (MP3)

A deep meditative listening natural soundscape. An hour before First Light in a forest of eucalypts and grass trees overlooking the Southern Ocean: peaceful, simple, and pure quietude of sweeping wind and gentle light rain.

Recorded in Ngarrindjeri country, now a national park.

(96/32 wav >> 256 kbps mp3)

2025.11.26 Wind and Light Rain before Dawn. Coastal Forest. Late Spring.

This year's best of is divided in two parts: forest and lake/wetland! In this recording you will hear in turn:

APRIL
Slavonian Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Lapwing
MAY
Sedge Warbler
Whooper Swan
Penduline Tit
JUNE
Bittern
Great Reed Warbler
Curlew
Fire-bellied Toad
JULY
Starlings murmuration

All recordings except the Fire-bellied Toads from the county of Uppland with varying recording techniques.

Best of 2025 wetland and lake

Dawn in bushland near the inland edge of the Kurangk/Coorong lagoon. On the far side of the lagoon, towering dunes half-draped with tough green bushes seclude and protect the lagoon from the ever-audible roaring ocean. Skimming above the ocean, a storm intermittently spears the waves with lightning, and rolls its thunder inland, towards the dawning bushland.

Recorded respectfully in the country of the Ngarrindjeri peoples (and, specifically, the land of the Lungundi and the Kaikalabindjeri clans).

Erdtöne

AudioFokus - Axel Mecke

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