a croaking pond frog in spring.
At the end of the recording you can hear me and the frog in a short duet

Pond Frog Solo

A few times per year, the huge 24 ton St. Peter bell in Cologne Cathedral is rung. Even though I've been living here for many years, I never went there to listen to this event. I have never heard such a massive cloud of sound. The deep end was earthshaking, and when all other bells joined in, the result was a massive 20 minutes abstract sound cloud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral#Bells

Dicker Pitter

At about 10:15 pm on these warm June nights when the first fireflies can be seen, the bats are coming to hunt. They fly circles and eights over our little pond at breathtaking speed in the dark, hunting for insects. Most of what you'll hear are the small Pipistrellus bats which are common here; sometimes there is a larger bat, possibly Eptesicus, but I'm not an expert.
This is my first recording with two (cheap) bat detectors, creating a stereo track. Listen with headphones to get an idea of the movement.
I removed the pauses - sometimes the bats were hunting elsewhere for several minutes

20220619 Bats in stereo

My piano was tuned today (by Carsten Vogler). 
I recorded the process that took about an hour. 
This is the complete recording (slightly edited) sped up x 16

Tuning the Piano x 16

A songthrush (Turdus philomelos) singing her evening song in the forest behind my house (Bergisches Land, Germany). This recording, taken on April 13, 2016, was slowed down to 200% to make the little details more audible.

Songthrush photo stolen from this website:
https://naturfotografen-forum.de/o18054-Singdrossel%20im%20Abendlicht%20-%20ND

Songthrush (slowed down)

what sounds like traffic on a highway is a storm in the forest uphill from my house

Stormy Weather (Friederike)

Cranes passing over our house 20180305

Kohlmeise / Great Tit / Parus Major
singing interesting patterns in mid-February, slowed down (150%)

Parus Major Slowed Down

a binaural recording (use headphones to listen if possible) - dry November leaves in both hands, moving and kneading them close to the ears. If you listen with headphones, you can hear the storm in the forest that I actually went out to record

Those Autumn Leaves

200216 02 Wind Oben Am Waldrand.WAV

February Sleet

The sound of an old tractor (driven through a beautiful summer landscape by an old man who apparently rode it for fun) 
200821 - 142319

Slow Old Tractor

For more than 30 years, Michael Peters has explored the world looking for new sounds. Most of his musical output veers from the mainstream and has been difficult to categorize. The renowned WIRE magazine has reviewed two of his albums in their "Outer Limits" section, which says it all.

Michael's main instrument is the guitar - he studied with renowned guitarist, Robert Fripp and also is influenced by guitarists David Torn, Eivind Aarset, and Fred Frith. He extends the guitar using electronic effects, midi, and livelooping techniques. He has played in avant rock and open improvisational groups.

He also has experimented with sampling and cutting up random FM radio broadcasts to use as elements in live improvisation.

By the same token, he has become more and more fascinated by using more stuctured compositions, using the computer as a musical instrument.

For anyone with open ears, the world of sound outside of regular music is also full of wonder. Michael loves to record interesting environmental sounds (field recording) and then recontextualize and sculpt them using digital tools such as granular synthesis, incorporating the results into musical compositions and soundscapes.

Michael is a member of Looper's Delight, a very active international community of people who use looping technology for their music making. He also is a seminal and pivotal member of the Chain Tape Collective, a group of dozens of electronic and electro-acoustic composers whose musicians create collaborative music projects together.

From time to time, Michael Peters has also been active as a programmer and visual artist in the field of abstract computer graphics. He is an avid photographer and has designed his own websites as well as the one for the Chain Tape Collective.

In the year 2000, he started an ambitious project called MY2K where he created an all original 10 second piece of music for every single day of the year.

In 2008, he hosted the 1st International Livelooping Festival in Cologne, featuring ten livelooping soloists from Germany, Italy, Belgium, Austria, and USA. In 2009, he performed at livelooping festivals in Belgium, Italy, and California.

Michael Peters lives in a small village east of Cologne, Germany. He loves to sit on a bench outside, listening ... 

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