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Beskid Mountains (Ujsoły) regulus, blackcap, raven and roe deer near mountain stream

Excerpt from piano improvisation recorded for Piano Day at Sage Gateshead, March 2015.  This is also available for download on Bandcamp:

https://paulstephentaylor.bandcamp.com/track/cusps-excerpt

Features on the  official Piano Day 2015 Playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/nils_frahm/sets/piano-day-playlist-march-29th.

The complete is track available on the eponymous album,along with four other pieces:

https://paulstephentaylor.bandcamp.com/album/cusps.

If you enjoy the track, it would be much appreciated if you could support the artist by purchasing the download.

Buy "Cusps" 

Cusps (excerpt)

An electric arc furnace running a "meltdown" process. Think of it as a giant arc welder. Three giant electrodes, each 8 feet tall and 1 foot across, create a continuous electrical arcing for melting and mixing ingredients used in industrial steel casting. The electrodes never touch the steel themselves, and it's the radiant heat of over 2400° F that melts the ingredients!
The furnace itself is 20 feet across and spits out tiny globs of melted steel throughout the process. Because of the danger, I could only come within 30 feet. Even at that distance, it's once of the loudest things I've ever recorded. With pads on both mics and the level on my 702 nearly all the way down, this still peaked around -9 when recording. Thank goodness for hearing protection!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_arc_furnace

recording miscellany:
Sound Devices 702
mid/ pressure: MKH8060
side/ gradient: MKH30

recorded at Bradken Foundry in Tacoma, WA
Photo courtesy of Elaine Thomas and Bradken Foundry in Tacoma, WA.


ARC Furnace Meltdown

The Murray River drains a huge area of southeastern Australia, in its lower reaches forming a deep-flowing river lined with extensive red gum forests. In years of drought, the mouth of the river can receive so little flow as to silt up. But in flood, waters spread out into billabongs and wetlands, replenishing the land and nourishing these majestic riverine forests. 

This recording comes from mid morning in the red gum forest. Birdsong is spacious and often distant. Pied and grey butcherbirds call melodiously, along with the whistles of mulga parrots, the piping of magpie larks and the occasional distant screech of a white cockatoo. Crinia frogs call intermittently from moist areas on the forest floor. Small birds dart among the canopy; fantails, honeyeaters and flycatchers. Meanwhile a soft buzz of insects fills the warm air. 

As with our other 'meditations in nature' series, this is a single unedited recording, and a good example of a morning when at first it seems there is little going on, but the more one listens, the more you hear.

3 minute audio sample from the 62 minute nature sound recording; "The River Forest", available for download from www.listeningearth.com/LE/p-141

The River Forest

The River Forest: Album Sample

African Cloud Forest is a collection of immersive ambiences recorded in Ethiopia's montane rainforests. The library features lush dawn choruses, loud insect and frog calls, subtle nightscapes and plenty of humid forest ambience. Available at https://mindful-audio.com/african-cloud-forest/

Downloadable demo - all rights reserved. License agreement available at https://mindful-audio.com/eula

MAFX016 African Cloud Forest demo

This dawn chorus was recorded at the ponds 150km from Moscow on April 26 2019. It features a lot of species including Black-headed Gull, Bittern, various ducks, Great Crested Grebe, Cranes, Snipe. Equipment: Nevaton VR Mic and Zaxcom Fusion, transcoded to binaural stereo with Dear VR Micro plugin.

CHD 190426 Teleshovo Dawn Chorus 5 AM KU

Toucans and macaws making a racket at dawn in the Amazon rainforest. A Thrush-like Wren also makes an appearance.

More sounds and stories at https://mindful-audio.com

Amazon Rainforest - Dawn - Toucans and Macaws

Recording of a vintage kids' cash register. Haven't cleaned up anything, just wanted to quickly share some snippets of what it sounds like. Recorded with a Sanken CO100k. I've got about 18 minutes of it making various noises.

Cash Register

An excerpt from an overnight recording within the backcountry of Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in western Kentucky.

Symphony of Three Owls (Barred, Great Horned, & Eastern Screech)- Land Between the Lakes Backcountry

Early at dawn, deep in the Harenna Forest. Colobus monkeys wake up and utter their terrifying territorial calls with a lush insect chorus background punctuated by frogs.

More recordings will soon be added to African Cloud Forest, a library of sound effects recorded in the Harenna Forest over two years. Check it out at https://mindful-audio.com/african-cloud-forest/

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Harenna Forest - Dawn - Colobus Monkeys And Frogs

Canoeing at dawn on a calm tributary in the Amazon rainforest. Longer version available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JmJyOx4YAk

Amazon Rainforest - Dawn Canoe Ride

Calm afternoon storm recorded at Tabin Wildlife Reserve in North Eastern Borneo. Recorded with Sony PCM A10 and Lom MikroUsi mics. Listen to more recordings I made in Borneo at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCRlYmmK1sqrM_BB3xp6quofSq7fYdEPA

Borneo Rainforest - Afternoon Storm with rolling thunder

last section of an overnight recording with the bird singing for 8h straight. may 2020

Thrush Nightingale (Luscinia luscinia)

Award winning sound recordist, audio director and expedition leader - Dune: Part Two | Mufasa: The Lion King | Horizon Forbidden West | Wordscapes

Amazon Rainforest - Dawn - Toucans and Macaws

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