Germany, Diepholzer Moorniederungen.
Landing cranes (grus grus)in the early evening.
Interessting echos and turning wind direction in 3:39min.
Noise polluted with cars, airplane and churchbells.

Recorded with: Sennheiser 8040 pairs, stereo 32bit float, sound devices mixpre-6 ii

Diepholzer Moor Kraniche Cranes

Field recording of a small stream in the middle of germany during birdrace 2022.

Gray heron, Crows

AT835ST MS with Zoom F3

Birdrace Fieldrecording Losse

Short field recording of sea birds on the Baltic Sea beach on the chalk cliffs of Rügen, Germany.

Tascam DR-100 MK3
Stereo 24bit 48kHz

2022 Baltic Sea Chalk Cliffs Fieldrecording

Collage of a windy field recording of skylarks in Boddenland on the Baltic Sea in Germany.

Parabolic microphone Dodotronic stereo + mixpre6
24bit 48kHz

2022 Cranemaps Baltic Sea Germany Boddenland Skylark Feldlerche Collage Dodo Stereo

Arriving cranes in the evening in boddenland at the baltic sea in germany.

Dodotronic stereo + Mixpre6
24bit 48kHz

2022 Cranemaps Baltic Sea Germany Cranes And Bee Fieldrecording Dodo

Waves on the baltic sea in germany.

Tascam DR100 Mk3
24bit 48 kHz

2022 Cranemaps Baltic Sea Germany Waves Tascam Stereo

Pleasant landscape in the scottish mountains. A mocking crow cawing at something, Chubby sheeps walking along the hills. And all the flies squeak through the air busily,

In Scotland I used my MS Mic and Stereo Earsights always together on the mixpre6 recorder.
This field recording I uploaded with the MSmic Stereo.

2022 FieldRecordings Scotland Crow Stream Sheep

A distant shot of a late afternoon beach watch: children playing with their parents, teenagers listening to loud music, a fishing boat in the background surrounded by seagulls. The scenes framed by the rise and fall of the sound of the sea.

In Scotland I used my MS Mic and Stereo Earsights always together on the mixpre6 recorder. 
This field recording I uploaded with the Earsights Stereo.

2022 FieldRecording Scotland Seashore Chilrden Playing Music Beach Activities Birds Fishingboat

Same place as "Scottish Beach ativities" but later at night.  People have already left the places a few hours ago.
Large waves roll along the beach seriously pushed by the wind in one direction. The irregularity of the waves and the wind leave a peculiar impression.

In Scotland I used my MS Mic and Stereo Earsights always together on the mixpre6 recorder.
This field recording I uploaded with the Earsights Stereo.

2022 FieldRecording Scotland Seashore Birds Latenight Loudwaves

Evening snapshot under a tree canopy of the bedroom of crows. Shortly after I started the recording, the alarm system of a public toilet went off. 
A strange restless mixture of annoyed crows, annoying alarm system and the relief after the alarm finally went off.

In Scotland I used my MS Mic and Stereo Earsights always together on the mixpre6 recorder.
This field recording I uploaded with the Earsights Stereo.

2022 FieldRecording Scotland Sleepingtrees Alarm Crows

Soundscape of a finnish lake in Karelia in the late afternoon.

2022 Cranemaps Fieldrecordings Finland karelia lake

This recording is one of my personal highlight of 2022.
A documentary in stereo of a duell between a great spotted woodpecker and a woodworker with a chainsaw on the other side of the lake.

Who wins the battle? Human or nature?

2022 Cranemaps Fieldrecordings Finland woodworker

In the middle of the meditative shot of a pine forest creaking in the wind, chattering hikers approach. The end is formed by the steady steps of a silent hiker.

2022 Cranemaps Fieldrecordings Finland windy creaking trees 1

Second attempt at a meditative shot of a pine forest creaking in the wind. Here too, around 10:20 of the recording, chattering hikers pass by.

2022 Cranemaps Fieldrecordings Finland windy creaking trees 2

Soundscape of a black woodpecker at close range that has moved away. The echo of its call locates it on the other side of the small lake.
Around 1:50 this time, I'm the one making noise. Towards the end, an airplane rounds out the disturbance.

2022 Cranemaps Fieldrecordings Finland black woodpecker Echo

This recording is one of my personal highlight of 2022. I was lying in the tent and was pulled out of a deep sleep at half past four in the morning by a noise. Until I realized that it is a single squirrel that causes such a noise directly over my tent, it took a while. 
It was even throwing sticks down!
I quietly got up to set up my sound equipment and then start recording.

2022 Cranemaps Fieldrecordings Finland Squirrel

There are some distant sounds on this recording that I can't clearly identify. The origin of the noises is probably far over the other side of the lake. Maybe they are distorted by the distance and the reverberation. They are repetitive in their sequence, so I assume that they come from a machine. Nevertheless, I find this sound eerie.
To be heard at the beginning, a jay.

2022 Cranemaps Fieldrecordings Finland Strange Sounds Forest Birds

In this shot, different birds take turns. Even a "tin bird" appears in the background once.

2022 Cranemaps Fieldrecordings Finland Birds Lake

Recorded with Tascam Stereo 44kHz 24bit
in Germany, Arzell

Watertower

Gully - Water

Gullideckel - Wasser 

Stereo Clippys and Geophone Mix
Stereo 48kHz 24bit

Gully

This was to be one of my first recordings. I uploaded a short version of the track.

Back in 2012, I tried out a sound devices recorder and recorded a distorted radio program with classical music in my kitchen.
I was hungry and started to cook a traditional Russian soup “borscht”. This dish was one of my favorites that my Russian mother cooked for me when I was little.

The radio broadcast, made unrecognizable by the distortions, reveals the music as such, but nothing more. How memories are often a distorted version of the past, constantly changing and becoming something new, but always trying to maintain a connection to the event from the past.

In my childhood, the radio was constantly playing in the kitchen. The sound of cooking with radio atmo in the background generates nostalgic feelings for me.

Cooking Borscht, listening to Radio

Das Hörstück „Ach, Baunatal deine Felder“ der Klasse Film und Bewegtes Bild in Kooperation mit dem Hessischen Rundfunk wurde 2016 im INTERIM im Rahmen des Dokumentarfilmfestivals Kassel ausgestellt.
Die neunte Minute wurde um neun Uhr morgens bei Schnee und Eis aufgenommen. Als Mikrophon wurde ein alter Sennheiser Kopfhörer zweckentfremdet. An seinem langen Kabel über einen kleinen rauschenden Bachlauf gehalten, sich stetig um sich selbst drehend. 
Daraus ergibt sich die schnelle scheinbare Abfolge zwischen rechtem und linken Kanal.

The audio piece "Ach, Baunatal deine Felder" (Oh, Baunatal your fields) by the Film and Moving Image class in cooperation with Hessischer Rundfunk was exhibited at INTERIM in 2016 as part of the Kassel Documentary Film Festival.
The ninth minute was recorded at nine o'clock in the morning in snow and ice. An old Sennheiser headphone was misused as a microphone. Held by its long cable over a small rushing stream, constantly rotating around itself.
This results in the fast apparent sequence between right and left channel.

Ach, Baunatal deine Felder um neun Uhr morgens

Video-Documentary: https://www.eevaojanperae.de/eecho/

DOGCUSSION 
Lumi and Luzi are discussing. Probably dog related topics. These two dogs taught me some very important lessons but rather human related. Both about myself and others. 
I appreciate it.

HUTZELFEUER 
Every year, on the first Sunday after Ash Wednesday, many villages in Nordhessen set up huge, festive bonfires – so called „Hutzelfeuer“. The voluntary fire brigade sells drinks and hot sausages and looks after the bonfires. As a child I loved to watch, hear and feel the heat of the fire on the cold February evenings. 
This year, when I was recording the fire, I was thrown back into my childhood.

STREAM 
In the same village where I used to go to the „Hutzelfeuer“ my childhood friends and I used to play at a little stream near the woods. At a certain point the stream gets wide, less deep and is covered with big stones. Here we used to play survival games, build dams and enjoyed the woods. 
When I went back to record the stream, I found a little boat near the water – ready for the next adventure.

SNOWSTEPS 
Winter was very special to me in my childhood. I was born around christmas and loved the movie „White Fang“ – the Disney adaption of Jack Londons story by the same name. I used to play being a lonely wanderer, whose sleigh was pulled through the deep snowbanks by a wolfdog. 
I recorded the sound of my own footsteps with freezing, almost numb hands when it was -17 C in Pori/ Finland.

SHOVEL 
One of my first memories is of my stepfather digging a hole to plant a cherry tree. He filled the hole with water, put the little tree inside the waterhole and shoveled back the earth. 
The tree is now 30 years old and full of cherries in summertime.

TOWER 
Close to the area of the Hutzelfeuer, there is a small water tower. In my childhood we used to sing while throwing stones trough the very tiny holes of its walls. We loved the strange sounds it made. 
During my recordings on a windy evening I couldn’t stop to play and sing with the echoes.

Eeva Ojanperä

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