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

CENAP

EP A10
https://akitomisaki.bandcamp.com/album/a10

ead #1

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

Tree Angle 1

Format: CD
Pre-order: 12th July 2024
Release date: 19st July 2024

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In a small fishing village located on a remote island, there was an elderly man who loved to stroll along the beach at sunset, leaving his footprints on the golden sand as he contemplated the infinite sea.

One evening, as he walked along the shore, he came across a young boy sitting on a rock, lost in his thoughts.

"What are you doing here all alone?" he asked kindly.

The boy looked up, surprised to be interrupted. "I'm just trying to understand the meaning of life," he replied weakly.

The elderly man smiled and sat down beside him. "The meaning of life is like this ocean we see before us," he said, gesturing towards the vastness of the sea. "Majestic and mysterious. We may not always understand it, but we must accept its flow."

The boy nodded, but still seemed perplexed.

"Look at the waves," the elderly man continued. "They're like the events of life. Some are high and tumultuous, others are gentle and serene. But in the end, they all crash upon the shore, leaving only smooth and uniform sand."

The boy watched the ocean attentively, reflecting on the old fisherman's words.

"Life is made up of moments that leave their mark," he said. "But just like footprints in the sand, they will eventually be erased by the tide of time. No matter how hard we try to leave our mark, in the end, everything will fade away."

The boy felt relieved of an invisible burden as he listened to the wise words of the elderly man. Perhaps there was no need to search for the meaning of life so anxiously. Perhaps all he needed was to learn to accept the flow of time and enjoy the present moment.

That night, as the tide silently rose on the beach, the elderly man and the boy sat together on the rock, watching the sea shimmer in the moonlight. And in that moment, in the quiet of the island, they found the inner peace they had been seeking.

"Inspired by Alessandro Baricco's book 'Oceano Mare' (1993)."

Sound source material: Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique / Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto No 2.

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previews. Lamasz, come le onde - il mare cancella, di notte | ROHS!

Free download, if you fancy it.

This one had been sitting on my HD for a while so I decided to finish the mix and let it see the light of day.

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2024 Chris Sharp
(p) 2024 Chris Sharp

Q London

Inoperative System & Senglar - Snare Friend

EOD - Chloramphenicol

No.4 C

SenSen - Formiga

exits

An animal is howling at night (possibly a crab-eating fox or a coyote), recorded in Gran Sabana (Venezuela).

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: http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/131920/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Please comment the sound if you like it !

A distant howl at night in the Gran Sabana.

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)

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.

A distant howl at night in the Gran Sabana.

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