2021-02-27 [47.11472;8.22975]
Baustelle der Wildtierüberführung Neuenkirch im Rümlikerwald bei der Autobahnraststätte Neuenkirch

Wildtierüberführung A2 Neuenkirch

The human tone engages with the secret world of pond sounds. The orchestra, surely, is complete. It certainly doesn’t need me. But I take it as a place from which to begin. Interspecies musicians want to ensnare music out of the surrounding sounds.

This soundworld is busy, beating, thrumming, pulsing, all on its own without any transformations. This is a single piece that convinces me that playing along with ponds is a proven thing. Yes it does work. So much is going on beneath the water. Its bustle implores me to slow down, relax, get lyrical for once.

This is a magical sound forest right around you, usually ignored. Drop the hydrophone down, plug in, hear it for yourself, imagine what you want to add to such a thing.

This is the pond of ponds.

Little Pond Beasts With Clarinet

This is a field recording which I made in a meadow orchard in June. The meadow orchard is kept completely organic and is a wild flower, insect, bird and bat oasis.

Streuobstwiese (Meadow Orchard), Altentrüdingen, Mittelfranken, Deutschland

A dawn chorus recorded on the banks of one of the large ponds which makes up the Biosphere Reserve Oberlausitzer Heide- Und Teichlandschaft in Saxony, Germany.
Recorded on the 9th July 2022 starting at 4:40 in the morning.
This is an mp3 copy of the original  WAV file.

Biosphere Reserve Oberlausitzer Heide- Und Teichlandschaft

This is a field recording of woodpeckers drumming on trees in a small wood. There is a pond here too, which I also recorded with Hydrophones.  2 LOM Basic Uchos, 2 JRF Hydrophones connected to a Zoom F3 at 32bit.

Woodpeckers drumming. Hagrainer Holz, Landshut, Bavaria, Germany

Dawn chorus in a grassy coastal woodland in south-east Tasmania. Features the sounds of Black Currawong, Common Bronzewing, Grey Fantail, Crescent Honeyeater, Superb Fairywren, Dusky Robin, Striated Fieldwren, Yellow-throated Honeyeater, Pallid Cuckoo, Tasmanian Boobook, Brown Quail & Masked Lapwing.

Tasmania - Lune Valley Dawn

My hidden place where I take most of my pictures. Swamps which are close to the forest. You can hear on the left deer moving hidden in the tall reed. Above ravens changing their melody. On the right behind a small hill wintering cranes woke up and prepare themself to take off in order to find food. The snow falls. It is 0 degree Celsius. Snow flocks hit into the microphones gently.

My hidden swamps in March with snow falling

Late morning in Palupõhja village Alam-Pedja nature reserve, Estonia. Different little birds are chirping in the trees next to the village road when suddenly a black woodpecker comes and bangs his drum four and a half times. The recording was made in the late morning of April 17, 2023

Equipment used: Zoom F3 digital recorder An Azden microphone pre-amplifier/mixer Primo Microphones with EM172 capsules. Recorded 32 bit 48kHz

Black woodpecker drumming

Short demo of the Bisons Sound effects library from Sonicsalute. Mix of the 3 mics used for the recordings. Sanken CO100K, Mkh416 and Telinga prabolic dish for extra zoom

Sonicsalute Bisons Demo

The snoring tree, recorded with a contact microphone.

Sleeping like a log - the snoring tree, 23-10-08

In 1941, the BBC began prefixing their transmissions to the European mainland with 'V' in morse code, a practice that was so successful they kept it up long after the end of the war. http://www.transdiffusion.org/2015/07/16/dot-dot-dot-dash

Wildtierüberführung A2 Neuenkirch

David Troxler

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