Amazing!  Nice recording.  I'm curious about the 'roar' or 'rumble' throughout the recording (as well as 5791).  Was this recorded near the ocean?  The low-frequency 'rumble' sounds natural, like waves or wind.  Just curious.  Thanks!

Early morning by little Rengaskari Reef, less than a mile from our shore. This is an excerpt from an over night recording. Had to do a low cut as there's been some low rumble from an unknown source that has affected all nightly recordings of this spring from the sea side. (and is still audible)
Birds: Common Eider, Greylag Goose, Barnacle Goose, Mew Gull

Updating www.rupuranta.net

(MKH8020 ab80cm, MixPre II 32>24, Flac)

Morning by Rengaskari Reef - 20/4/2021 - Makholma Finland

- Opuss

My favourite bird, for many reasons and not an easy one to record, as even when you've identified a singing post, staking it out after dark whilst being bitten alive by mozzies, in the hope that the bird lands on the perch facing in your direction, it quite stressful but when it does come together, it's magical. You only hope that the female is ready waiting to judge the performance, as if she is, he gives this clapping performance at the end. You can hear her approaching towards the end of this song. 

Sadly, this is the type of sound that Soundcloud likes to destroy!!! 'HD' My ass..

Gear: Sound Devices Mixpre 6 ii / Schoeps CCM 4 / Telinga Dish / Lom Usi Pro's

Gavin Vella

Nightjar Song - MixPre - 5783

For an abridged version: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20220702-still-night-in-a-pine-forest-winter-abridged-version

2022.07.02 Still Night In A Pine Forest. Winter. (Full Version)

August 14, 2022...    forest soundscape at ~ 5 am.   Quiet, still, calm, little wind, dominated by insect sounds typical of this time of year.  Recorder & mics located on the edge of a still pool in Brown Creek, not flowing this time of year due to lack of rain in late summer here.  There actually is a very slight flow of water, which can be heard thoughout the recording.   Photo shows site of recording.  Near the beginning of the recording there are calls of an eastern screech owl.  Later, a few frogs chime in.   This night was relatively cool for August (temps in the high 60°F range).  

In the forest here, this is the the quietest time of the night, 1-2 hours before dawn.  After dawn, the cicadas will start, the wind will pick up and it won't be quiet again until late afternoon.  As night falls, the evening summer soundscape here is dominated by (very loud) katydids, crickets, other insects and sometimes frogs/toads, for hours...   continuing through most of the night until early morning quiet time. 

Recorded with Earsight mics about 50-60 cm apart into a Zoom F3 recorder.  Low frequencies were attenuated and volume was adjusted.  

Headphones recommended (as always).

Arkansas forest in late summer ~ 5 am August 14, 2022

A representative abridgement of an attended recording that runs from 02:33 to 06:44. Edited without processing. 96/32 > 48/24.

Hear a longer version

2022.09.11 Pine Forest. Full Moon Night. Early Spring.

Enregistrements réalisés par Francis de Frescheville les 23 et 24 avril 2017 dans la forêt du Risoux, dans le Jura. L'écoute au casque est indispensable pour localiser les diverses sources sonores.
	Micros Sennheiser MKH-20 et enregistreur Tascam HD-P2.
	C'est une sorte de reportage sur le manège des tétras, décrit en six plages enregistrées avec les mêmes réglages. Ces séquences sont placées l'une après l'autre, séparées par un silence de deux secondes.
	1 - La nuit tombe. Les Tétras débarquent et s'installent dans les épicéas. On entend au loin un Moyen-duc et une Chouette de Tengmalm.
	2 - Cinq tétras égrènent leur chant dans le calme de la nuit.
	3 - La nuit se termine. Merles à plastron, puis Grives musiciennes. On entend une Bécasse.
	4 - Le jour est levé, l'ambiance s'enrichit, les tétras sont plus assurés, mais toujours branchés.
	5 - Les tétras descendent au sol et commencent leur parade. Les hoquets répétés viennent de deux grands corbeaux. On entend aussi un élevage d'huskies.
	6 - Affrontement de deux tétras et reconduite à la frontière.

Grand Tétras

30 May 2023

To get good recordings of birds you have to come close. On way of achieving this is to work with concealed microphones. It’s not easy to predict where the target bird/s will be, and I regularly fail in my attempts, but occasionally I succeed. I scouted a semi-open sandy area – a former tree seed orchard –  where I had encountered lekking Black Grouse last year, and hid a small stereo lavalier microphone overnight in the crown of an isolated small pine tree. One by one the Black Grouse males arrived in the late evening hours and immediately began displaying around the small pine tree.  

Umeå commune, Västerbotten County (63.39 N, 19.54 E)

Primo-EM172s

01_01.05

In the middle of the Black Grouse lekk

Peaceful crickets, Santa Barbara backyard overnight, 11:30pm-6:30am

soundscapes - melancholia V

Created for Azimuth 6, here as a stereo version of the original 32-channel version.

'Based on the introduction of Jean-Paul Resweber's book "The Philosophy of Language", the piece explores the ambiguity between the voice that conveys a message and the voice whose acoustic and musical qualities are heard. It seems that when our attention is focused on the musical aspect of the voice, we forget the message it carries, and vice versa. The back and forth between these different levels of listening leaves the listener free to give it its own meaning, if there is one. And this is precisely the question asked by the original text. '

https://www.azimuthfoundation.net

Nightjar Song - MixPre - 5783

Gavin Vella

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