a patch on the Waldorf Quantum i made during lockdown at some point consisting of noise and wavetables. dusty and broken.

January 25, 2022 (metalpad_Q)

From a recording I did of a rubber band banjo (a couple of rubber bands stretched over the top of a cardboard box); a recording a door closing (https://freesound.org/s/346267/) ; and a recording of an orchestra tuning (https://freesound.org/s/324595/).

Photo credit: By Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100785478

Elegy For Rubber Bands, Hinge and Strings

Stream: https://ffm.to/theageofspiral

Download: https://orkuna.bandcamp.com/album/the-age-of-spiral

CREDITS:

An album recorded between December 2021 - November 2022
Produced, mixed, and arranged by Orkun Akbal
Cover art by Orkun Akbal

The Age of Spiral

Spiral Theme

Thyme Song (take 2)

This is a recording made in spring 2023 on the isle of eigg.

It is a cuckoo calling from a small patch of trees above Laig bay. 

The recording was made with a Sony D100 and spaced EM172s.

Close up cuckoo on the isle of Eigg

The Red Deer Rut (Brame du Cerf) recorded in the heart of the  the Orleans Forest, the largest Forest in France. 

Zoom F3 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH8020s
23.09.2023

Red Deer Rut - Forêt d'Orleans, France

Sculpting a single, static drone via slider moves on a Buchla 295 Comb Filter.

Drone Sculpting

From album Jaro /Spring/ Bandcamp 2023
https://tomassenkyrik.bandcamp.com/album/jaro

Notes to this recording:
Last April, I went to a floodplain forest in southern Moravia to capture a bombina bombina at one of the wetlands. No sooner had I settled down on the shore than the bombina bombina starts to call. My son fell asleep in his bicycle seat, it was beautifully quiet, no wind, no people, so ideal conditions. I quickly connected the equipment and started recording. After pressing the record button, I heard a small sport plane approaching me in my headphones. It circled over the wetland and then over the floodplain forest continuously for twenty minutes, yes really twenty minutes. It alternately receded and approached. I cursed quietly and preferably away from the microphones, so luckily my comments are not heard on the recording. The next day I downloaded the recording to my computer and was determined to delete it. But I listened to the recording. Something happened that I didn't expect. From the first seconds, the picture seemed to me as a compositional unit. The hum of the aircraft engine entered the recording with gradually increasing volume and began to create a harmony in the lower frequency band to the call of the bombina bombina. Since then, I listen to nature sounds and the sound environment differently. During the recording session, I took a photo of the location and my son sleeping on the bike. I decided to use it as the cover image for the whole album Jaro because it reminds me of the day I started listening a little "different"

Bombina bombina and a small sport plane

Dawn chorus in a light wind in the Bois de Toulx (Creuse, France) with a bunch of individuals from different species :
European Robin (Erithacus rubecula), Common Blackbird (Turdus Merula), Eurasian chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), Great tit  (Parus major), Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), Common firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major), Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes), Common Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus), etc.

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Choeur de l'aube dans un vent léger dans le Bois de Toulx (Creuse, France) avec un nombre varié d'individus de différentes espèces :
Rouge-gorge familier (Erithacus rubecula), Merle noir (Turdus Merula), Pinson des arbres (Fringilla coelebs), Coucou gris (Cuculus canorus), Mésange charbonnière (Parus major), Fauvette à tête noire (Sylvia atricapilla), Roitelet triple-bandeau (Regulus ignicapilla), Pic Epeiche (Dendrocopos major), Troglodyte mignon (Troglodytes troglodytes), Pigeon ramier (Columba palumbus), etc.

240509 · 06:00 am · Dawn Chorus · Choeur de l'aube (Creuse, France)

The Marais Du Verdier is a rich marshland made up of four former fishponds totalling 120 hectares, with a variety of habitats (reedbeds, bulrushes, salt meadows, ponds, tamarisk groves). This recording captures the intense amphibian chorus after dusk, with many Stripeless Tree Frogs (hyla meridionalis) vocalising. 

Recorded 10.05.2024
Zoom F3 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s (ORTF)

Amphibian Chorus - Les Marais Du Verdier, Camargue, France

Appears on the Frosty Springnight album "Wrapped In Darkness":
https://silentloverecords.bandcamp.com/track/courage-beyond-reason

photo by Elseh
www.flickr.com/photos/187686180@N02

"Courage Beyond Reason" by Frosty Springnight

Sound recordist Colin Hunter 
Founder of the World Sounds project

Amphibian Chorus - Les Marais Du Verdier, Camargue, France

World-Sounds.org

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