Name: 2022 Cranemaps Fieldrecordings Finland karelia lake by Eeva Ojanperä
Duration: 9 min 16 s
Description: Soundscape of a finnish lake in Karelia in the late afternoon.

Good headphones recommended: this is a binaural recording.

Recorded from the same location as the previous night recording, but about four hours later, in the morning, from around 08:00. In addition to the Black Swans, Australian Shelducks, Grey Teals, Pacific Black Ducks, and Silver Gulls that could be heard here at night, there are now also Australian Magpies, Magpie Larks, Singing Honeyeaters, Galahs, New Holland Honeyeaters, Fairy Wrens, and Masked Lapwings, among others.

The distant faint dull thuds that can be heard are coming from about 15 kilometres across Lake Alexandrina (which extends far beyond the strip of land visible at the horizon in the track photograph): they are the sound of duck hunters, because it is now the open season for duck hunting in the Tolderol and Mud Islands Game Reserves, among others. For the water birds that happened to roost on the far side of the lake, it is not such a good morning.

Sporadic gusts of breeze have caused some "wind in the ears", but I didn't want to interrupt the natural flow of the recording by cutting these occasional patches out. (If you'd been sitting there, the breeze in your ears would have sounded much like that, anyway, but you probably wouldn't have paid any attention to it, as we tend to do in a field recording. In any case, refinements in windshielding for this binaural rig are on the agenda.)

The Coorong is also at least 15 kilometres away from this location, and traces of its signature relentless deep roar can also be heard from here.

Recorded on land of the Ngarindjerri people that is now either National Park or privately owned pastoral land.

2022.02.20 Black Swans. Coorong. Morning. Late Summer

For an abridged version: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20220702-still-night-in-a-pine-forest-winter-abridged-version

2022.07.02 Still Night In A Pine Forest. Winter. (Full Version)

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

2022 Cranemaps Fieldrecordings Finland karelia lake

From dusk to dawn with two pairs of cranes and one or two single male contenders. In this recording you will hear almost infrasound (80-200 Hz) growls and heavy panting as the males chase each other in the wetland and of course the trumpeting of cranes through the night. An amazing experience to be this close. Huddunge, Uppsala. April 9, 2024.

Mixpre 3ii + Lewitt 440 Pure in ortf

Cranes like you never heard them before!

A night recording in the grounds of the Arundel Bungalow, Fraser's Hill, Malaysia.

Night at Fraser's Hill

An excerpt from an attended dawn recording, sitting within a Sheoak grove, featuring a pair of Australian Ravens. There can be little doubt that the Raven has one of the most penetrating and far-reaching unbeautiful yet evocative and expressive voices of the Australian bush. An intriguing being.

This recording was made with a pair of large-diaphragm condenser omnidirectional microphones in AB array with 62 cm spacing, raised high on a lightweight lighting stand, in a different location from, but contemporaneously with, and in the same locality as, the following related recordings, which were made with an unattended rig:
https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20240811-grey-shrike-thrush-with-crested-bellbird-winters-end
https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20240811-gilberts-whistler-at-dawn-winters-end

Recorded respectfully and mindfully upon the land of the Meru and Danggali people.

Track image credit: JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

2024.08.11 Pronouncements of Ravens at Dawn. Winter's End.

Ambient - Live
https://youtu.be/hTXzGUijICs?si=Ok_w8vAz2bzxaBS9

Korg Monologue
Expressive E Osmose
Assimil8or triggering samples from Korg NTS-1
iPad Sampler
Bartender mixer
and of course Eventide Space

Jäät Tanssivat Järvellä - The Ice Dances On The Lake - LIVE

Tawny owls' midnight calls at the hidden disappearing lake valley, surrounded by deep forests.

Midnight Spooky Owls - Cerknica Lake, Slovenia 19.8.2025

!!! Warning quiet recording! Soundcloud will play the next track automatically, if you crank up the volume on your headphones. !!!

Yes, it was cold. 
Only -5 celcius but after two hours it feels alot more.

There is a distant traffic. The road is about 2,5 - 2,8 kilometers away.
I had to remove a noise slightly because the recording is quiet and its always difficult to record ice sounds. I have to develop a better technique.
Otherwise this is actual recording. The ice was really active.

Recorded between 1.1 - 2.1 .2017 midnight (Eastern European Time Zone
UTC+02:00) 
Location map
https://goo.gl/maps/e6j9tVa5Xpm

I was hoping that everyone is at home after new years eve, but there is always someone going somewhere with cars.

Recorded with Sennheiser MKH30&40 MS decoded to stereo
96khz 24bit - Sound devices mixpre-D -> Edirol R-44

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Ice  ≈ Warning quiet recording ≈

Recorded at 06:30 in Southern Beech forest near the Cascade Creek DOC campsite, Fiordland, NZ. Grey Warbler, Rifleman and Red-crowned Parakeet can all be heard along with introduced Chaffinch.

2022 Cranemaps Fieldrecordings Finland karelia lake

Eeva Ojanperä

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