The beaver is not very talkative but in this recording you can hear some high-pitched "giggling" in between walking and munching on branches. The sequence starts and ends with a splash of the tail. Hågaån, Uppsala. May 6, 2023.

Beaver munching away

A wide and deep, gently rhythmically hypnotic, mallee heathland dawn, from an evening to morning recording made with a mid-side rig utilising an omnidirectional mid microphone. (Relaxed listening with good quality headphones with flat frequency response, especially open-backed, at a moderate volume, is ideal.)

Recorded respectfully on the land of the Ngargad (Ngarket) people.

Track photo: taken at the recording location, in Ngarkat Conservation Park, on the second morning of recording.

2025.09.13 Ngarkat Dawn. Early Spring.

I was in Estonia recently to check-out Matsalu National park to learn as much as I could about it before maybe returning in May to record.  It was the wrong time of year to record birds, however back in the city I recorded some street sounds on my last evening.  Equipment; A Sound Devices MixPre3 recorder and a matched pair of Primo microphones.  Recording 4476.

Side Street Atmosphere - 27 September 2025-8.35pm.  Tallinn

Wicked Owls - Midnight Primeval Beech Forest, Slovenia October 4. 2025

Thunderstorm in heavy rain, some limiting on it due to levels. Testing out DIY rain cover. ORTF. 

Thunderstorm and Heavy Rain

It's not very often my garden is as peaceful as this but it was pitch black and quite late at night, not a breath of wind, just the droplets falling off a few oak trees from the very light rain in the air. I get tawny owls all year around and they always bring the chicks to the garden to practise hunting but only 1 survived this year so just had him/her yapping away all night like this during the spring. 

Tawny Owl Fledgling Garden - MixPre-7716

Midnight Sun (Remix)

The world premiere of David Rothenberg's piece ELEVEN PATHS TO ANIMAL MUSIC (2025) at the Sammlung Hoffmann in Berlin.

	
	



World premiere of Eleven Paths to Animal Music by David Rothenberg

Korhan Erel, electronics
Uygur Vural, cello
Jeffrey Goldberg, piano
David Rothenberg, clarinets and field recordings

Based on one section of his book Nightingales in Berlin, David Rothenberg presents
a composition containing vignettes of natural environments recorded on his travels, from frogs in the Amazon, nightingales and wind in the Camargues, leafcutter ants in Costa Rica and a lake in Brandenburg, among others. This piece encourages performers to listen closely to whole natural environments and find a way to play together and within them using the ‘eleven paths to animal music’ described in the book.

Rothenberg also cites Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet of the End of Time,” George Crumb’s “Vox Balaenae”and Tierra Whack’s “Whack World” as inspirations for this work, which has its first performance at the Sammlung Hoffmann in Berlin, Sunday May 18th, 2025.








Eleven Paths to Animal Music World Premiere

The world premiere of Loon Asylum (2022) by David Rothenberg, commissioned by the Wayzata Symphony of Minnesota. Conducted by Marlene Pauley

Loon Asylum

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

Beaver munching away

Bo Söderström