Some sounds recorded in Mexico during 2009 and 2013.

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Mexico

Mexique

Here is a compilation of sounds... 
i work everyday with sounds (with headphones... wouldn't be the same otherwise). 

It makes me feel relaxed and somehow it helps me to concentrate on my work. 

Thank you so much "sound makers" for such great tracks. 

by the way, if anybody knows great sounds tracks, please let me know !

Sounds in Nature

Nature

Here are all the sounds I have uploaded on SoundCloud.
Some other sounds to listen on www.felixblume.com
You will find more sounds on http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/

All best 

Felix

ALL THE SOUNDS

Gotas de Agua de Janička
todos somos gotas de agua fluyendo al mar
...por amar..

Gotas De Agua

Summer nights in Paris. Mehdi Ahoudig has a mike on his bike. There are tango dancers on the left banke of the Seine, disco parties on the right and tourists in the middle. A sound postcard for the Japanese show "Oto no Fukei" on NHK radio.  
Recorded June 13 - Mixed by Arnaud Forest & Samuel Hirsch - Directed by Mehdi Ahoudig - Produced by http://arteradio.com - Download : http://bit.ly/HRducL
Mehdi Ahoudig a suivi la Seine à vélo, son micro attaché sur le guidon. Il monte en parallèle une visite touristique en japonais et les fêtes sur les quais. Une carte postale sonore réalisée pour l'émission "Oto no Fukei" de la radio japonaise NHK.

Paris sur Seine

Mexico City - Street seller screaming to sell their merchandise till the whistling announcing the police, in Mexico City historical center (close to Zocalo. "Correo Mayor" Street).

Sound recorded by a Zoom H4n with its internal XY microphone
STEREO Left-Right
recorded in 2010
Same sound on Freesound: 
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/134061/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Please rate the sound or comment it if you like it !

Street sellers screaming to sell their merchandise till the whistling announcing the police

Birds, insects and gold fever : welcome to Gran Sabana. A vivid landscape betweeen savanah and the Amazonian forest in Venezuela, near the Brazilian border. Noisy animals and a few men, digging the earth for very little gold they will later spend on cock fights. Immerse yourself in another beautiful "sound postcard" by Félix Blume https://soundcloud.com/felixblume
Recorded in 2011 by Félix Blume - Mixed by Arnaud Forest - Produced by http://arteradio.com - Download http://bit.ly/Iq9ksr 
Oiseaux, insectes et chercheurs d'or : bienvenue à Gran Sabana, région naturelle de savane et de forêt amazonienne au Venezuela, près de la frontière brésilienne. Là, parmi les singes et les animaux divers, quelques hommes creusent pour un peu d'or qu'ils perdront ensuite sur les combats de coqs. Une nouvelle carte postale signée Félix Blume, peintre accompli du paysage sonore. https://soundcloud.com/felixblume

Gran Sabana

Chiapas Dawn Chorus

Julio Tiwiram Miguel Chiriap and Herman Naitipia   cantando juntos en una ceremonia de 26 de enero de 2008 al lado del rio Bomboiza en Gualaquiza

Julio Tiwiram Miguel Chiriap and Herman Naitipia  singing together on a ceremony by the river Bomboiza 26th of february.2008

Uwishin

Some toads are singing during the night close to Namur, in the countryside. This toads are calling "midwife toad". Some cricket and road in background sometimes.

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps CCM41+CCM8
Sound Devices 788T recorder with CL8
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded in july 2014 in Belgium, close to Namur,
Sound Reference: @BEA140722-002

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com/

Midwives toads screaming at night in Belgium's countryside during the summer

Los Gritos de Mexico, soundscape of Mexico City is a 30min sound piece by Félix Blume. 
http://www.felixblume.com/losgritosdemexico
A shorter version is available on Arte Radio. 
https://soundcloud.com/arte-radio-1/los-gritos-de-mexico
Download in Wave 48kHz 24bit on Freesound 
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/260680/

This piece receive a special mention during the "Bienal of Radio from Mexico" and has been broadcasted on more than 30 radio, web-radio and on the Radia Network.

RESUME:
Mexico City: more than 20 millions people gathered making noise!
A noisy city for most; I would like to transform it in a sonorous city.

The street sellers make the voices of the polyphonic choir, the small bell from the ice cream seller substitutes the triangle from the orchestra, and the hammering of the protesters on the metallic wall are the percussions.

In Mexico City, people shout to be heard, they shout their rage against the cops, they shout at the ‘lucha libre’ fights, they shout together ¡ Viva Mexico ! to feel united, and during a demonstration they also shout ¡Viva Mexico ! People shout in church, they pray together or alone, whispering in the silent night.

The thunder booms: nobody can shout at the storm, and the rain cleans the silent city.  A solo voice after the rain, and the choir resumes gradually. 

People sing to forget and the shouting starts again, louder, so that the others don´t forget.

The water flows under the city, the forgotten lake is mourning; it remembers when the city was an Island… On the top, it is too noisy, underneath, the water keeps in silence the secrets of the past.

INTENTION
Most of the people in the world live in cities. The daily soundscape is in most of the case a continuous sound of traffic, close or distant. Mexico City has a series of sounds added to the background which make the specificity of the city: the cries and sounds of the street sellers are in most part responsible.
In the past, most cities had their own cries (as some classical music can testify, like ‘Les cris de Paris’ from Janequin). In Mexico City, this tradition has persisted until today,  but the government and general opinion is not in favour of them: street sellers are each time further away from the touristic center, advertising campaigns are done to make them disappear from the subway, and police operations block their access to the streets.

I would like to pay tribute to these Criers through a soundscape of Mexico City, that will become a sonorous memory of a time that sooner than later will disappear.

Los gritos de Mexico

Electric Storm on the top of the mountain Chacaltaya in Bolivia. 
The "static electricity" is going up (and doing interferences in the microphones)until the thunderclap(very close).

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps CCM41+CCM8
Sound Devices 788T recorder with CL8
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded in october 2014 in Bolivia, on the Chacaltaya Mountain,
Sound Reference: @SAM141022-29
Wave, 48khz, 24bit

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Electric storm on the top of the mountain

A saturday afternoon in the small village of Coroico (Yungas, Boliaiva), people are looking and betting on the fight of the roosters...

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps CCM41+CCM8
Sound Devices 788T recorder with CL8
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded in october 2014 in Bolivia, in Coroico
Sound Reference: @SAM141018-008
Wave, 48khz, 24bit

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Cockfight in Coroico, Bolivia

Miguel Chiriap - Nase Tsentsak

Frogs and toads are screaming at the edge of the river.

Sound recorded by a MS setup Sennheiser Microphone MKH50+MKH30
Sound Devices 302 mixer + Sound Devices 744T recorder
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded in 2011
Same sound on Freesound : https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/376813/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Frogs and toads are screaming at the edge of the river. (Gran Sabana, Venezuela)

A recording to celebrate the life and work of David Attenborough on his 90th birthday! 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03syr6g

I also had the amazing opportunity earlier in the year to work with Joe, Liz and Jack from Ammonite films to fulfil one of my biggest dreams to work on a David Attenborough documentary!!!  Here is a sneak peek which has one of the sequences of a growing bioluminescence mushroom that I shot for them. If you are in the UK it will be aired tomorrow night and will be on ABC in Australia hopefully soon! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33-3UCTRZWM

Australian Lace-lid - Litoria dayi recorded in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. This is a short low res preview from the full recording, if you are interested in the full recording please contact me. I hope you enjoy the recording! Copyright Tai Inoue at Nature Sounds 2016

Australian Lace-lid - Litoria Dayi

A dog groaning, moaning, sniffing, panting and grunting. Close recording of a French Bulldog in a house in Mexico City

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CMC6MK41+CMC6MK8
Sound Devices 552 mixer & recorder
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded en june 2011 / sound reference: 11Y06M20-001

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

The same sound on Freesound:
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/134820/

Please rate the sound or comment it if you like it !

A small french-bulldog try to communicate

A diesel goods train is passing by in the ghost town of Bagdad in the Mojave Desert. 
Close recording of the train (a couple of meters). Train horn is announcing he is coming.

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41+CCM8
Sound Devices 552 mixer + Sound Devices 744T recorder
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded in nov 2011 in California (USA)

The same sound on Freesound :
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/136451/

The same sound slowed down
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/189153

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Train passing by in the desert, close to the "Bagdad" ghost town in California (USA)

Grey-headed Robin - Heteromyias albispecularis recorded at Dinden National Park, Wet Tropics, Australia. Copyright Tai Inoue at  Nature Sounds 2012.
 

Grey-headed Robin - Heteromyias albispecularis

Thunderstorm, rain and hail on the mountain of the High Atlas, in Morocco.
The sound recording was about 30minutes, you've got there a 5minutes editing, from the beginning to the end.

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41+CCM8
Sound Devices 744T recorder + Sound Devices 552 mixer
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
sound reference: @PAS120324T041
recorded in march 2012

same sound on Freesound :
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/154961/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Spotify

Thunderstorm, rain and hail on the mountain of the High Atlas

Red-winged Parrot - Aprosmictus erythropterus recorded on the Winter Solstice 21 June 2012. Copyright Tai Inoue at Nature Sounds 2012

Winter Solstice 21 June 2012 - Red-winged Parrot - Aprosmictus erythropterus

Rainbow Bee-eater - Merops ornatus recorded on the Winter Solstice 21 June 2012. Copyright Tai Inoue at Nature Sounds 2012

Winter Solstice 21 June 2012 - Rainbow Bee-eater - Merops ornatus

Dolphins screaming underwater in the Caribbean Sea, on Mexican coast, close to Punta Alen. Recorded from the boat.

Recorded by a hydrophone h2aXLR Aquarian and a 744T Sound Devices Recorder.
Recorded in July 2012

The same sound on Freesound:
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/161691/

More sound on http://www.felixblume.com


Freesound

Dolphin screaming underwater in Caribbean Sea (Mexico)

The motmot bird (pajaro reloj) is the guardian of the cenote (kind of deep natural pit or sinkhole). 
Recorded inside the Cho Ha Cenote (close to Coba ruins).

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41+CCM8
Sound Devices 744T recorder
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
sound reference: @MEX120716T04
recorded in july 2012

same sound on freesound:
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/162230/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com


Motmot bird inside a cenote in Yucatan

Masked Owl - Tyto novaehollandiae recorded near Hasties Swamp National Park. Copyright Tai Inoue at Nature Sounds 2012.

Masked Owl - Tyto novaehollandiae

Pluma de Guacamayito   -- a version with a tunning folks sound ---

Mira Jempe con Janicka implorando a los aves Guacamaya
..seguimos practicando :-)

some people asked for translation,so here it is :-)

Feather of Gauacamayito clean well my eyes so everything in my life is beauty 2x
trainai nai nai nai....
Feather of Guacamayito open well my heart so all in my life is happiness/pure love 2x
trai nai nai nai nai...
Feather of Guacamayito give me of your colours,so all in my life wud be nice visions 2x

do cestiny :
Pirko od Guacamaji ocisti mi dobre moje ocicka,aby vsechno v mem zivote bylo krasne 2x
trai nai nai nai nai...
Pirko od Guacamaji otevri mi dobre me srdce aby vse v mem zivote byla radost/cira laska 2x
trai nai nai nai nai...
Pirko od Guacamaji dej mi z tvych barev aby vse v mem zivote byly dobre vize

Gracias a los Guacamayas

Pluma de Guacamayito Mira con Janicka

A train is passing by in the small town of Wuadley in the Wirikuta Desert (Mexico, State of San Luis Potosi SLP). Train horn and railway vibration at the beginning (recorded by the contact microphone).

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps mixed with a contact microphone
Microphone CCM41+CCM8
Contact Microphone Aquarian H2aXLR
Sound Devices 744T recorder
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right and mixed with the Contact Microphone
recorded in july 2012
sound is in 96kHz

Same sound on freesound on
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/166086/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Please rate the sound or comment it if you like it !

A train is passing by in the Wirikuta Desert (Mexico)

The end of the world in the Maya's ruins of Palenque (Mexico).
A giant circle of people (mostly "Rainbow" and local people) in the center of the ruins, doing a "hum" and yelling together. The guards of the ruins want the people to leave the place because they are closing.

Recorded on 21 of december 2012.

Recored by a Sound Devices 788T with a CL8, with a MS Setup CCM41+CCM8 (MS is encoded in stereo Left-Right).
Same sound on Freesound:
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/172310

More sounds on www.felixblume.com

The end of the world in the Maya's ruins of Palenque (Mexico)

a happy figting warior
dancing ang and singing ...

Chapinmaya Shiwiar - Mira Jempe

Félix Blume is a sound artist and sound engineer. 
His work is focused on listening, it invites us to live sonic experiences that enable a different perception of the surrounding. He uses sound as a basic material in sound pieces, videos, actions and installations. His process is often collaborative, working with communities, using public space as the context within which he explores and presents his works. He is interested in myths and their contemporary interpretation, in human dialogues both with inhabited natural and urban contexts, in what voices can tell beyond words.