Early in the morning, rain falls on Lake Cernek and insects sing. Sometimes mallard ducks dive into the lake through the bushes. 

October 2024
Samsun/Turkey

Rain and Insects at Lake Cernek - Kızılırmak Delta

A second meditative recording made at night from within a rock cave at Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island; this one from April 2025, on a very still, calm, full moon night. The first three and a half minutes of this track are recorded from outside the cave, from the granite dome overlooking the ocean. The rest of the track is recorded from inside the cave, with the microphones pointing up towards the curved, scalloped granite ceiling where it merges with the back of the cave. This recording was made with a pair of MKH 8040s in ORTF.

Related recording: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20241212-night-ocean-in-a-cave-remarkable-rocks-kangaroo-island-early-summer

Recorded mindfully and respectfully on land and water which, although not indigenously inhabited for some 4000 years, remains to this day of fundamental cultural, spiritual and historical importance to the mainland Ramindjeri, Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna, and Narangga peoples.

2025.04.13 Ancient Cave and Ancient Ocean.

A peaceful, meditative natural soundscape: the gentle wind through coastal forest; the deep roar of the Southern Ocean a mile away; and, immersed within the matrix of these elemental forces, a dispersed, quiet, but alive and recovering, early summer dawn - announced quite emphatically at the beginning of this recording by a nearby Red Wattlebird. (The Red Wattlebird's early 'wake up' calls are the only louder passage in this entire piece. It's a Red Wattlebird subspecies (Anthochaera carunculata clelandi) that is found only on Kangaroo Island.)

Recommended listening: Good quality headphones with a flat frequency response (preferably open-backed); or good quality stereo monitors. Relaxed deep meditative listening at a quiet time with minimal interference from extraneous noise. 

A note on the track image: The panorama photograph was taken from the middle of Snake Lagoon, facing the eastern forest margin of the lagoon. The recording was made from within the forest itself. At the time the photograph was taken, on 5th December 2024, Snake Lagoon, like most of the inland lagoons of Kangaroo Island, was dry, although its fertile soil floor was nevertheless green with flora, richly fertilised by the droppings of Kangaroo Island Kangaroos and Tammar Wallabies feeding on that same flora. Its dryness was due to a protracted period of unseasonal drought, a drought that was a major contributing cause to the devastating Black Summer bushfires of 2019-2020. Those bushfires also raged through the coastal forests surrounding Snake Lagoon, which are seen, here, in this photograph, four years after the bushfires.

Related track: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20241205-wind-and-red-wattlebird-snake-lagoon-early-summer. (An excerpt from the first part of this longer recording, featuring the dawn calls of the Red Wattlebird.)

2024.12.05 A Windswept Early Summer Dawn at Snake Lagoon, Kangaroo Island.

https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/sets/quiet-dawn-of-souls-first-light-two-locations

2023.02.19 Quiet Dawn of Souls. First Light. Location β.

2023.02.19 Quiet Dawn of Souls. First Light. Location α.

A very, very gradually unfurling, utterly unhurried, dawn chorus, beginning from the very first faint bird calls of First Light (Crescent Honeyeaters) in a eucalypt forest near the north-western coast of Kangaroo Island. In various passages of the recording, the gentle, plaintive calls of Glossy Black Cockatoos (an endangered species) can be heard; also, occasionally, the loud, wailing calls of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos.

A continuous unedited recording. By human time, this extract from an overnight unattended recording, made on Thursday 10th April 2025 (five years after the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires), runs from 05:34 to 07:27.

Recommended listening: good quality headphones (preferably open-backed) with flat frequency response, or good quality monitors, at a low to mid volume.

Recorded mindfully and respectfully on land and water which, although not indigenously inhabited for some 4000 years, remains to this day of fundamental cultural, spiritual and historical importance to the indigenous mainland Ramindjeri, Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna, and Narangga peoples.

2025.04.10 From First Light. Wilderness Protection Area. Kangaroo Island.

Pied Butcherbird song at dawn, accompanied by White-winged Fairywren, Trillers, Miners, Emu booms,  Magpies et al, in the NSW outback near Lightning Ridge

Pied Butcherbird Sunrise Recital

Lightning Ridge Dawn Chorus

2025.09.14 Tawny-crowned Honeyeaters near my Tent at Dawn. Ngarkat. Early Spring.

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