Stumbled upon the Richmond County Orchestra's Utopia Quartet (?) playing old-timey tunes on clarinet.

Clarinet Quartet Conference House Park - 001

Collection of field recordings from Conference House Park on Staten Island. This is part 2 of the data analysis for the potential Quiet Parks International Urban Quiet Park award.
Gear used:
Schoeps ORTF
LOM BasicUcho and Usi Pro
Sonorous Objects SO.1
Sound Devices Mixpre 6ii
Zoom F3
Sony D100

Conference House Park Beach 1

Following the successful launch of The World Within, a sound art installation developed by Todd Macintire, featuring field recordings by myself and Matt Mikkelsen, I've reuploaded this recording from Big Cypress Preserve's Education Trail which features thundershowers, frogs, birds at dusk, and some light rain.

Big Cypress Preserve - Education Trail Thunder Storm

Sunday Service at Haghartsin Monastery
Excerpt from October 2nd, 2022
Front four channels of ORTF 3D mixed down for this stereo mix

Haghartsin Monastery - Sunday Service

Accordionist performing outside of the Khor Virap monastery complex.
Recorded on Schoeps ORTF 3D through Sound Devices Scorpio.

Khor Virap - Accordionist

I drunkenly play the Nishijin Pachinko machine for way too long in my girlfriend's grandpa's basement after Thanksgiving dinner.
Recorded on iPhone 14

Port Washington - Vintage Nishijin Pachinko

Quick afternoon recording of the windy and recently frozen over bay in South Hero on Lake Champlain at sunset.

Lake Champlain South Hero Ice

Okay...last time, for real!
Conference House Park with friends.
The final assessment.
What do you think? Quiet in general or just quiet for NYC?

Conference House Park - Combined Field And Shoreline

Spring dawn chorus at Breezy Point Tip
Searching for the quietest place in New York City
Schoeps ORTF > Sounddevices Mixpre 6ii

Breezy Point - Dawn Birds and Waves

Fox Hill - Midnight Loon

A serendipitous moment upon return to my hotel after a conference where the microphones were up just in time for capture the last clap of thunder before a wild, early May hail storm in Montreal.

Montreal - May Hail And Thunder

Sony D100 + LOM Usi Pros in tall grass at Rauðisandur beach in the Westfjords

Rauðisandur - Grass, Birds, and Waves

Sony D100 Waves
Moog Matriach Sequence
CBA Gen Loss Mkii
CBA CXM 1978

Rauðsdalur

Recorded live at The Ben Nevis Bar on iPhone
August 21st, 2022
If you are or know of the artist(s) please tag and I will update for attribution :)
Photo from the Isle of Mull Cheese and Spirits in Tobermory

The Ben Nevis, Glasgow - Folk Jam

Afternoon soundscape uphill from Playa el Cocodrilo south of Ensenada in Baja California.

Playa El Cocodrilo

Stereo mix-down of a quadraphonic recording of a tree trunk straddled by two waterfalls just north of the Karuizawa Wild Bird Sanctuary (軽井沢野鳥の森)

Ethan Bourdeau

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