A - Worx 2

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Hello, I created this one today morning (Friday 18th Nov 2022) using a felt piano library sound and synthesisers along with a descending shepard tone for the bad dream's part. (I have that as a recurring dream: me falling for ever)

There's a "nightmare" chord (some sort of C minor "alt") and then the "sweet dreams" chord (C6/9)
Around 1 minute into the piece the "sweet dreams" chords tries to get in but fails, to be eventually fully heard at the end, before the *rallentando* at 1:42 and back to a nice sleep.

photo by Greg Rosenke

For a junto challenge about dreams, Read more here:
Step 1: We’re going to make music inspired by recent research on sleep habits. Read the article here:

https://www.sciencealert.com/nightmares-can-be-silenced-with-a-single-piano-chord-scientists-discover 5

Step 2: Think about the hallmarks of a nightmare.

Step 3: Spend some time with the C6/9 chord. The notes are C E G A D. (In other words: the root, major third, perfect fifth, major sixth, and major ninth.)

Step 4: Create a piece of music that begins with the hallmarks of a nightmare and then gradually transforms into a more positive piece through the use of piano chord C6/9.

A Cure For Nightmares (disquiet0568)

It's dawn on a very still Lake Öjesjön in mid April. Just a few days earlier the lake was completely frozen, but in the past few days Spring has well and truly come alive. In this recording we hear Canada and Grey Lag Geese, Common Cranes, Goldeneye and other wetland birds on the lake. From the trees on the shore of the lake we hear a Redwing accompanied by other woodland birds. From time to time we hear Black Grouse displaying in the distance. 

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 ii + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s (ORTF)
15.04.2023

Dawn At Öjesjön Lake - Västmanland, Sweden

A door between the trees

Appunti Sonori #2

During the first week of September 2023 I returned to Palupohja in the Alam Pedja reserve in Estonia for a short break before the autumn really begins and the days become short and cold.  Early in 2020 I was booked to go but then Covid struck and I had to cancel the trip.  It was good to meet up again with fellow wildlife sound recordists Andrus Kannel and Veljo Runnel and also Robert who runs the place.  I was booked-in for only a few days so I didn't want to be weighed-down with equipment so I brought only the Sound Devices - MixPre3 and the Tascam X8 recorders and a pair of Lewitt 440 and a pair of Primo EM272 microphones. 

A few years ago I was there in August from about the 8th to the 14th, I recorded mainly cricket choruses in the evenings and early nights, I recorded also in the early mornings but didn't get many recordings, at least not enough similar recordings to make any new production.  Very diverse recordings are hard to put together in a way that would sound like they were all made at the same time of day.  This trip however, though I only got about six hours of recordings, they are very alike and when I got home I was pleasantly surprised what I was able to make of them, the quiet background in each made it easy to cross-fade from one recording to the next.  I would like to thank Andrus for the lift out to the reserve from Tartu and his help with the name for this production.  Hilissuvi is an Estonian word that basically means the time of year that is the late summer and also the early autumn.  There is no English word for it. 

For the moment I will leave it as a free download but when I  put it on my Bandcamp page I will have to uncheck the free download box.

Hilissuvi (1) New Album

This longish recording focusses on First Light rather than Dawn (Second Light and Sunrise), although it includes the beginnings of the latter. It ought to be listened to with good quality headphones, or good quality speakers, at a mid-range volume of around fifty to sixty per cent. The recording is unedited: one of the things that particularly interests me, and that I especially enjoy, about this early spring First Light forest soundscape (and other similar early spring forest Dawn recordings that I made during this road trip to Tasmania) is precisely its very gradual, slow, minimal, and spacious development. This sounds nothing like an overly-busy tropical rainforest. The 'silence' never completely disappears.

In this rich, dense, moist, cool-temperature southern forest of Tasmania, at the time that this excerpt begins, it is still fairly dark to the human eye. The first First Light call is (as usual) from a Black Currawong (Strepera fuliginosa), a species of Currawong that is found only in Tasmania. Its call is quite unique, very unlike any mainland Currawong, and I grew to adore it, and to recognise it as the main Tasmanian forest sentinel of dawn.

We also hear the final few night calls of Ninox novaeseelandiae leucopsis, which I would prefer to refer to as the 'Tasmanian Boobook', rather than its more common and familiar name, 'Morepork'. Both names are, of course, onomatopoeic labels provided by Europeans. But the name 'Morepork' suggests, to me, an image of radically displaced Europeans in an unfamiliar landscape, craving pork meat, and hearing this beautiful owl call as though it were expressing their own cravings: 'More pork!" (Interestingly, DNA evidence has suggested that Ninox novaeseelandiae is more closely related to the New Zealand Boobook (also commonly known in NZ as the 'Morepork') than to the mainland Southern Boobook (Ninox boobook).)

The other early caller, here, is the Yellow Wattlebird (Anthocaera paradoxa), also found only in Tasmania.

Gradually, the 'Dawn Chorus' stirs and unfurls into a more richly-populated wakefulness. Thankfully, the introduced and now feral Superb Lyrebirds, which have seriously infested this region, seem to be late risers that enjoy sleeping in: somewhat later in the original recording, they pretty much take over most of the forest soundscape.

Recorded with meditative respect upon the land of the Nuenonne tribe of the Palawa people. The recording was made with a pair of MKH 8040s in ORTF into an F3 recorder.

2023.09.23 First Light. Huon Valley. Early Spring.

More on this 627th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Ice Society — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at: https://disquiet.com/0627/

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Slicing The Ice (disquiet0627)

Stocastic4

Almares

A cabinetmaker by trade.  I have been recording birds for over 40 years.  Even as a seven year old I loved to hear the sound of birds. 
I believe that birdsong is a perfect reflection of the natural environment and yet a part of the experience of the environment.  
Over the years I have made some wildlife films and videos.  For wildlife recording I have been around Ireland, Wales, Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Belize, Guyana, Brazil, Peru and Costa Rica. At the moment I have 26 albums of birdsong/nature, most of which can be found here for free download in high quality F.L.A.C. format.
  
Birdsong is Spiritual Medicine,
a Natural Treasure 
and a Companion to Silence.

Hilissuvi (1) New Album

Fintan O'Brien

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