A summer dawn chorus at Strangways, central Victoria Australia.

You can hear the chipping of our numerous Yellow-tufted Honeyeaters waking up, the rich song of a Grey Shrike-thrush, a Yellow Robin, distant Kookaburras, the warm, booming calls of Bronzewing Pigeons, twittery reels from a Blue Fairy-wren, and the carolling of Magpies.

Australian bush summer dawn chorus

The soundscape in the Borneo rainforest is incredibly lush and varied. Most birds stop singing at night, but that's when insects and frogs take over. Longer version at https://youtu.be/HDrUq-eF_ZA

Night In The Borneo Jungle

This is a “quiet recording” from nature reserve Flói in the southwest of Iceland.
This recording contains many local birds and migrants. Birds as Red- necked Phalarope, Arctic stern, Red throated diver, Black tailed Goldwit, Common Snipe, Golden Plover, Whimbrel, Eurasian Oystercatcher and many other birds are in this recording. Noisiest and probably "ugliest sound" in this recording is the Red throated diver´s territorial call, but they also express in the recording a beautiful calm conversation with their eyes.
Background noise is coming from the surf among the south cost.
The recording was made in 26th of June 2012 around 3 am and is just nine minutes of ten hours recording that day. The weather was calm, clear sky and temperature around 5°C.
This is a very quiet nature recording so you should not play it loud. If you stay there you can barely hear this birdsong or this bird activity with open ears. You should play it like you think you will hear it trough open window, as a background sound. Best way to listen to all the details and explore the bird species is using quality headphones. This recording contains also very loud session when all Red throated divers in the area “scream” their territorial call.

Recorder: Sound devises 744. (24bit/48Khz)
Microphones: Rode NT1a (NOS setup)
The picture was taken at 26th of June 2012 at the recording place almost at the same time.

Listen to more recordings from Flói. Southwest Iceland
http://fieldrecording.net/tag/fri%C3%B0land-i-floa/

See more pictures from this two days recording trip.
https://picasaweb.google.com/104187345157190691446/FriLandIFloa2012?noredirect=1

Location of the nature reserve Flói:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Selfoss,+South,+Iceland&hl=en&ll=63.901525,-21.192284&spn=0.038891,0.132093&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=69.814448,135.263672&oq=selfoss&t=h&hnear=Selfoss,+Iceland&z=14

Nature reserve in Flói 2012

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Taken from the upcoming album 'Little Things' by Dalot & Sound Awakener...

'Little Things' is the first full length collaboration between Vietnamese sound artist Nhung Nguyen (Sound Awakener) and Greek sound artist Maria Papadomanolaki (Dalot). The album marks the completion of a 1.5 year-long exploration of common threads and interests between the two artists most notably the quotidian, the minute and the unnoticed often found in the fringes of big cities, busy landscapes and trajectories. It starts from ground-level interactions, field recordings of soundwalks in parks, on the streets, hydrophones in rivers and contact microphones on bridges and delicately moves to the ethereal; building up atmospheres of dreamsequences that differ from track to track. 

‘Little things’ was created by a process of exchange and extraction of draft ideas between the two artists. The creative and personal connection was deep which results in a sense of intuition and mystery throughout the album. Each track has undergone iterative transformations until its final stage, with each artist peeling off layers and sculpting textures and moods prompted by words, memories and places. While, ‘Strangers in the city’ places the listeners in an urban junction, still with their eyes closed, ‘all that fall’ contemplates on the beauty of fallen leaves, autumnal afternoons and the smell of rain. In pieces like ‘a good day to be alone’ the two artists create feather-like motions resembling invisible drizzles of emotions, solitude and dreams filling up an empty, quiet room on a sunny morning. Elsewhere in the album, as in ‘sailing’, darkness supersedes lightness in a long dive into unknown waters. 

The album creates a journey for the listener; a journey of changes between the two artists’ lives; the changes in seasons, life-events, ordinary moments  and creative processes that affected the perspectives and emotional states within which this album was produced. Rainer Maria Rilke has written that ‘the only journey is the one within’. In ‘Little Things’ the two artists offer an adventurous exploration of internal landscapes through sound and memory, the light and shadow encountered within. Nguyen and Papadomanolaki embark in a musical dialogue in an effort to create a new common dialect between them, a place where they can feel both familiar and lost. 

Music: Dalot & Sound Awakener
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Little Things

Strangers In The City

Dalot & Sound Awakener - Strangers In The City

Dusk falls in Mohoba forest as a distant thunderstorm rumbles. The insect chorus is deafening. Turacos, hornbills, parrots and other birds prepare for the night.

Recorded in the Congo Basin Rainforest with a pair of DPA 4061 HDs going into a Sound Devices Mixpre D and a Sony PCM M10. Get more sounds at https://mindful-audio.com

Dusk In The Forest

Yep it's quiet, approx 32dB SPL at this location.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81ne_Mahuta
Latitude: -35° 36' 4.06" S
Longitude: 173° 31' 38.49" E
 
Recorder: Sonosax SXR4+ @ 24b/96k , gain at 80dB. (downsampled to 44.1 for soundcloud streaming)
Microphones: Sennheiser MKH 40/30 M/S pair

Tane Mahuta predawn quiet

Four years ago, the California based musician r beny came on the radar with numerous videos on youtube and instagram in which he explored the world of tape and sound synthesis. You could easily see his music growing and pretty soon he came to the fore as a master in modular synthesis. 

This culminated in several solo releases and live shows (e.g. with Bing & Ruth, Suzanne Ciani). Herein, r beny, clearly showed his capacities to combine detailed and fragile melodies with subtle textures in order to create sonic narratives with a highly emotional character.
 
“Echo's Verse” forms no exception on that regard and continues along the same melancholic lines of his previous work. However, whereas the initial albums were much more centred around feelings of loneliness, isolation and solitude, the new album clearly moves away from a sole focus on sad and distressing emotions. “Echo's Verse” touches the other side of the spectrum as it is about emotional connections, bonds and not feeling alone in the universe.

“Echo's Verse” will be out on May 15th on heavyweight clear vinyl* and comes with original handprinted artwork by Femke Strijbol. In addition to the regular version, there will also be a special edition (30 copies) including a unique 1-minute tape loop alongside the record.

www.dauw.bandcamp.com

and fall, standing alone again

The fluting calls of White-crowned shamas fill the valley as the sun sets over the jungles of Maliau NP, Borneo. Recorded with Sony PCM D10, Lom MikroUsi mics and BubbleBee Windbubbles. 1-hour version on Youtube at https://youtu.be/0RyOT0yRSH4

Read about my expedition to Borneo at https://mindful-audio.com/blog/sound-recording-borneo