Livemitschnitt vom 30.04.2025 im Bunker Greifswald

Wayz b2b El Wampo @ Rave in den Mai - Bunker Greifswald

In this episode, I converse with an exceptionally talented and dedicated field recorder, Mr. Bo Söderström. As a field recorder, Bo spends a considerable amount of time in the wonderful wild habitats around Uppsala, Sweden. Here, in mature forest, expansive wetlands and various other locations, he has honed his craft to secure intimate recordings of the birdlife in these very special locations. Here in this this interview, Bo selflessly talks in depth about his own processes and shares some wonderful intimate recordings of the very highest quality. A true journey into sound and a wonderful glimpse into the quiet places he chooses to spend his time within. His immersive recordings will take you into the wilds of Sweden and lift the veil on some of the wonderful birdlife found here..

Subscibe to Wild Bird Acoustics here;
https://wildbirdacoustics.buzzsprout.com

Alan Dalton: 
A journey into the wonderful world of field recording birds in their natural environment. Join me at Wild bird Acoustic's to experience incredible soundscapes of wild birds, here in Sweden and further abroad. The podcast will feature sound magazines, trips to wild places and interviews with sound recorders from all around Europe and beyond. Carefully selected audio from the field will inform and educate birders who wish to learn more about bird vocalizations. Going forward, I hope to draw together a community of field recorders, birders and outdoor enthusiasts, to share the sounds of wild birds and places from all over the world....

I hope it will appeal to those who seek a relaxing audio experience, contribute to mental well being and provide an outlet for listener's who seek to escape the stress that modern life can generate.

An Interview with Bo Söderström

Schizophrenia

ORTF: 8040s (preamp gain 65 dB).
Mid-Side: 8050 and 8030 (preamp gain 65 dB; both channels at 0 dB in M-S decode).

Parallel raw clips to illustrate the difference in recorded levels between the ORTF rig (first clip) and the M-S rig (second clip), both recorded on the same recorder and both with 65 dB preamp gain. (Note how the Boobook Owl pauses its calls during the loudest and nearest part of the jet's passage.)

In all of the subsequent parallel clips, the ORTF recordings have been given +5 dB gain, which brings them very close to the same loudness level as the decoded M-S clips. Both rigs are similarly self-noisy under higher gain settings: neither is ideally suited to extremely quiet nocturnal ambience recording. (According to the manufacturer's specs, all three types of microphone have a self-noise equivalent of 13 dB (A-weighted).)

ORTF and Mid-Side (Parallel Recordings). 1. Boobook and Jet.

fresh snow froze on trees brabnches - in wind ice pieces falling around and making sound. 

Winter windy forest ice trees moving Kamnik Alps

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

New bat sounds (Fledermäuse Biokulturhof 10 25)

Après quelques heures de marche en cette belle journée d’automne, une dernière pause avant que le soleil ne passe derrière la montagne. Le ruisseau, les cloches des dernières vaches encore dans les prairies et quelques cris de marmotte (à 2 min 10) pour parfaire ce paysage sonore.

After walking for a few hours on a beautiful autumn day, one final stop before the sun sets behind the mountain. The stream, the bells of the last cows still grazing in the meadows and a few marmot calls (at 2 min 10) complete this soundscape.

En descendant du refuge

Yellow Crystal Human -

Meditation
Civilisation
Transmutation
Constellation

Physical vessel, activated,
Chalice of self, vibrating,
Brain circuit, awakening,
Flow of all creation.

Heart of deep knowing,
Resurrecting true human,
In this illumination,
Yellow people incarnating.

This human condition,
Constant meditation,
Embodied sacred transmission,
Serving civilisation.

Essence of wisdom,
Synthesizing vision,
Point of ascension,
Vast listening.

Alchemical transmutation,
Greater constellation,
Stability in expansion,
Circuits of transformation.

Yellow Crystal Human

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 sample from a recording made to test the second version of an experimental rain-shield. However, it's still not a satisfactory result. So, waiting for more rain, now, to try out version three.

2025.11.22 Rainshield (Version 2) Test. Mallee Country. Late Spring.

Field sound recordist and archivist of vanishing sounds in natural Iandscapes. Highly commended in the Sound of the Year Awards 2024 - Best Natural Sound.