When George Vlad from Mindful Audio let us know he was going to Kenya for an expedition we thought it was a great opportunity to sponsor him with the Telinga Modular parabolic reflector he already purchased from Pink Noise in U.K. We were eager to find out how it worked with the mics he already had in his collection, and very happy to showcase some examples
he sent us already. These recordings are made with The Telinga Modular:s included stereo foam cartridge and a pair of his LOM mikroUši mics. To listen in full quality please download for your own use.  

For more information regarding this recording please contact George Vlad: www.mindful-audio.com
For more information regarding the Telinga Modular please see: www.telinga.com/products/pro-series/kits/telinga-modular/
For more information regarding the LOM mikroUši please see: https://store.lom.audio/products/mikrousi?variant=6174830002208

Photo and recording kindly sent by: George Vlad.  Sponsored content. 
Copyright and all rights reserved, George Vlad, Mindful Audio. 
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Telinga Modular stereo with 2x Lom MikroUsi mics (George Vlad)

When George Vlad from Mindful Audio let us know he was going to Kenya for an expedition we thought it was a great opportunity to sponsor him with the Telinga Modular parabolic reflector he already purchased from Pink Noise in U.K. We were eager to find out how it worked with the mics he already had in his collection, and very happy to showcase some examples
he sent us already. These recordings are made with The Telinga Modular:s included mono foam cartridge and George own Sennheiser MKH-8040 microphone. To listen in full quality please download for your own use.  

For more information regarding this recording please contact George Vlad: www.mindful-audio.com
For more information regarding the Telinga Modular please see: www.telinga.com/products/pro-series/kits/telinga-modular/
For more information regarding the Sennheiser MKH-8040 please see: www.pinknoise-systems.co.uk/sennheiser-mkh-8040-cardioid-microphone.html
Photo and recording kindly sent by: George Vlad.  Sponsored content. 
Copyright and all rights reserved, George Vlad, Mindful Audio. 
Telinga Microphones - www.telinga.com

Telinga Modular mono Sennheiser MKH8040 (George Vlad)

From new album "Eureka" supported by indiegalia.blogspot.com

Mother Mother - Calm Me Down

Telinga Modular - African Wood Owl using the stereo foam and EM-272 capsules. By George Vlad, Mindful Audio. 

With the included stereo foam the Telinga Modular can be used in stereo PZM setting. A mono foam is also included and can be switched on location without any tools.

Copyright George Vlad, Mindful Audio. For more information please visit https://mindful-audio.com/

For more information on the Telinga Modular please visit: www.telinga.com/products/pro-series/kits/telinga-modular/

Photo by George Vlad. Sponsored Content. 
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African Wood Owl - George Vlad Telinga Modular Stereo EM272

I recorded our local Pipistrelle bats from my back garden last night - both 'common' and 'soprano' varieties.  It wasn't until I listened to my recordings this morning that I realised I had also captured the sound of a passing Noctule bat too! A real delight to hear one flying high overhead.  Bats make sounds too high in frequency for humans to hear - so the recordings need to be processed - usually in one of two ways.  Hetrondyne mixing - to shift the pitch of the sounds down in frequency to something that humans can hear. Or, 'time expansion' - basically stretching out the 'best bits' of the sounds in the time domain by slowing them right down.  Time expansion is similar to what is sometimes now called 'granular processing'. I used some of my 'music processing' equipment to process these sounds - once I had made a small library of the bat sound samples that I liked.  I turned it into a 10 minute 'symphony' using a variety of tape loops, pitch-shifting, granular synthesis, delays and a little bit of reverb.  I'm still experimenting with the mix between 'light touch' processing of my field sound recordings and something a bit more 'musical' - You might hear a hint of  a I–V–vi–IV chord progression of the Noctule towards the end of this symphony!  Recorded using an an Echo Touch Pro 2 microphone at 384 kHz (samples per second).  Equipment used for sound processing included a Chase Bliss Habit and Mood MK II, together with a Hologram Electronics Microcosm looper 'effects pedal'. Some reverb was added via both the Mood and Microcosm. No DAW was used - I mixed it all 'live' from the clips chopped on my Koala sampler. Simples! 
Photo of a nearby tree, taken in 720nm infrared.

Bat Symphony

Tracklist:

1. Calibre - Ringtone
2. Total Science & War - Second Wave
3. Philth, Survival & Script - Color Blind
4. Survey - Far Gone
5. Overlook & Photon - District
6. Spirit - Think
7. Commix - Faceless (Marcus Intalex remix)
8. Atlantic Connection - Situations (DLR remix)
9. Fierce & Optiv - Surface Noise
10. Bungle - Alone
11. Naraka - Bent Sky
12. Heist - Crimes Of Identity
13. Nymfo - Drop The Bass
14. BTK - Stay With Me
15. Dillinja - Grimey (Need For Mirrors remix)
16. Heist - Body Snatchers
17. Resound - Sub Rukus
18. Nymfo - Electrosmog
19. LTJ Bukem - Music (Technicolour 12" rework)

Chris Robin @ BLU UG 16.11.2024

What Does the Sea Sound Like? 

Recorded in Laytown. 

Field Recording trip to gather material for Blue Haze of Deep Time. 

What Does the Sea Sound Like? - Laytown

Discrepant showcase of new and current releases in 2025, not only Discrepant but also sister labels like Pacific City Discs, Sucata Tapes, Keroxen and Souk Records. 
Check www.discrepant.net 


Discrepancies 2.0 • LSD Cha Cha w/ Gonçalo F. Cardoso (20.04.2025)

Ep "Why Not You" 2003
Supported by indiegalia.blogspot.com

Stowaways - Boogie List

Recorded at the Hotel Monte Palace in São Miguel, Azores in April 2018.
This recording is part of the collaborative project titled SÍSTOLE, developed with photographer Renato Cruz Santos, during an artistic residence of the Tremor Festival 2018.

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A small lake full of mating frogs and toads on a warm spring morning.

Ambient woodland sounds captured above the lake - including the distant rumble of highway traffic and some passing aircraft as well as the local bird life and the croaking of frogs and toads.  Schoeps mid-side pair into MixPre6.  Mixed in with simultaneous underwater recording of frogs and toads captured with two JRF hydrophones to a homemade hi-z impedance buffering amplifier to the same MixPre6.

48/24.

Quy Fen near Cambridge, UK.

Quy Fen Frogs Mix

I’m a freelance sound recordist, sound editor and sound artist living in Porto, Portugal.

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