Hit Record 3 • Spring Peepers

Hail falls one night in April, layering ice over ground already covered with flower petals. 

Hit Record 4 • Hail Showers And April Flowers

Whippoorwill, crickets, frogs, flies, and unknown shrieks score the scene of lily-laden waterways in fading twilight. And a few planes drone through the ambiance, also.

Hit Record 5 • Goshen Pond In Early Summer

I stepped out early morning, August 11th, 2014 to record the immense sounds of the busy lives in the trees. This is the result. 

Hit Record 6 • 3am Mid-August

Late October Pine Barrens ambiance around a cedar stream.

Hit Record 7 • October Cedar Stream

Mid-April surf sounds recorded April 17 at Great Bay Boulevard Wildlife Management Area in Little Egg Harbor Township, NJ.

Hit Record 8 • April Evening Bay Sounds

Evan: "Isn't this the curve..."
KD: "...All those people died on?"
Evan: "Yeah..."
KD: "Yeah..."

This was made late one spring night in 2015 with my friend KD Cyr at Evan's Bridge, near Green Bank, NJ. I recorded the sounds KD made when tossing rocks into the Wading River.

She once told me a story about how, when she was a child, she witnessed the aftermath of a motorcycle crash at this very bend in the road next to the bridge. They must have been going too fast and couldn't take the sudden curve. She said she saw fresh dead bodies among the wreckage, all scattered about in the pine needle covered ditch. She tried to describe the horrible effect it had on her. She was unable to speak for hours. Even when hearing her describe it, it sounded like the impact it had was not very far off. You can hear my hesitation appear after I begin bringing it up to her.

KD Cyr, 23, was killed months later by a reckless driver. KD, in addition to being an artist with her own canon of bizarre arts, has helped on vocal efforts for a few Cloud People efforts. She helped even more so behind the scenes; especially when I was a wreck after my mother was killed by a drunk driver in 2014. KD is tearfully missed. 

- Evan

http://kdcyr.com/

A Look At Evan's Bridge
http://www.easternthunder.com/cloudpeople/pictures/a-look-at-evans-bridge/

Hit Record 9 • At Evan's Bridge With KD
http://easternthunder.com/cloudpeople/hit-record-9-at-evans-bridge-with-kd.php


Hit Record 9 • At Evan's Bridge With KD

Late night breezes wash through the desolate pines. Recorded late at Carranza Memorial, October 30th, 2016.

Hit Record 10 • All Hallow's Eve At Carranza Memorial

Mid-December trek through swamp reveals trickling stream and even small birds chirping about. Recorded December 16, 2016.

Hit Record 11 • December Swamp Stream

Late night December cold brings subtle sounds of snowfall.

Hit Record 12 • Late Autumn Snow Falling On Dead Leaves

Recorded with binaural microphones and a Minidisc recorder, near Skit Branch on Carranza Road, between 3am and dawn on August 23, 2001. Excerpt.

Hit Record 13 • Pre-Dawn Sounds Down Carranza Road

These are some of the sounds heard in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. 

This set of stereo field recordings makes up a series called Hit Record, and is only one of a few on-going efforts. 

There are powerful forces in the Pine Barrens. I call them Cloud People. Their music is easy to hear. 
— Evan Wilder

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