Thunderstorm Rain Sounds for Sleep 1

Suspiros | Aquatic Sound Installation in the Lagoon of Zapotalito
done during a residency at Casa Wabi in March-April 2022
Community project in collaboration with the children of the school of Zapotalito.
http://felixblume.com/suspiros

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Suspiros | Aquatic Sound Installation in the Lagoon of Zapotalito

My third release of pure-thunderstorm based sounds, this track compiles several storms I recorded on a patio in Detroit in late 2013. A variety of lightning cracks, thunder bellows, and different forms of rain can be heard across the 8+ minutes, with some light urban sounds finishing out the soundscape (generally when recording rain I try to only capture rain, in this environment a few cars splashing down the road were inevitable due to my proximity to a fairly busy street). This recording also marks the end of my material I taped using my older Tascam field recorder (from now on my recordings will be available in 96K as opposed to 44.1K) Feel free to add this to your favorite sleep playlist or use as a daily unwinding tool, plug in your best headphones and enjoy!

Sound Therapy Sessions

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Torrential Downpour in the City [HD Field Recording of Rain & Thunder Relaxing Sounds]

This is the processed version of the original recording.If you want to use the original recordings send me a PM through SC or Facebook.   24bit/96khz_source file available for request.
If you ever use this track and wish to share your production with me, please send me a private message.Feel free to use my tracks in your work.Just link back here so I can help promote our joint projects!

Recorder: Olympus LS 100
Mic: MM-BSM-9

Heavy_Rain on concrete ground/Thunder/Distant Car Noise (Source file available for request))

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

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!

Rain Sounds for Sleep – Soothing and Relaxing Rain Drops for Better Sleep, Cure Insomnia, Sleep Aid, Nap Time, Healing Therapy Rain Before Sleep

Grey Clouds (Zzzzz Rain)

Wind is blowing and howling in the salt desert of Atacama (Chili)

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41&CCM8;
Sound Devices 744T Recorder
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded in 2012 during the shooting of "CAMANCHACA // Notes pour un Film à venir" directed by Clio Simon (http://www.wix.com/cliosimo8/cliosimon - cliosimon@gmail.com) 
Photography : Sergio Nahuel

The same sound on Freesound :
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/142335/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Wind is blowing and howling in the salt desert of Atacama (Chile)

One Hour Thunder & rain during the night in the Amazonian Forest

Recorded by a setup AB with 2 B&K4006 omni mics
On a Sound Devices 633 recorder
Original Recording in Wave 96kHz 24bit
GPS: 3º38'41''S 64º57'10''O
Sound Ref: AB BR-170909T06

More sounds from the Amazonian Rainforest on Freesound
http://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/packs/22765/

Thunderstorm

Thunder & rain during the night in the Amazonian Forest

Monday, 25th June, 2012. 

A thunder storm was predicted, so I set up my Telinga SSM and Olympus LS-100 recorder just inside a screened door. I set the recording level low, but even so the nearest lightning strikes (about 100 feet away) completely overwhelmed the system.

The recording begins while the storm is still about ten minutes away....

There are several phases - first, there is distant thunder as the wind begins to strengthen. Then the thunder gets nearer and the rain begins. Next, the storm literally moves overhead, with several strikes within a few hundred feet of the house.

This is followed by hail, and then more wind and rain, as the storm slowly recedes to the east.

Thunder storm

One Hour Thunder & rain during the night in the middle of the bananas trees, in Veracruz. 

Recorded by a setup ORTF with 2 Schoeps CCM4
On a Sound Devices Mixpre6 recorder
Original Recording in Wave 96kHz 24bit
During a residency at Casa Proal (San Rafael, Veracruz)
Same sound on Freesound https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/536679/

1 hour : Thunder & Rain in Veracruz during the night

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.