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A collection of field recordings from my travels. For recordings longer than an hour check out my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/georgevlad

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A collection of soundscapes I recorded in the Amazon rainforest in March/April 2019. Read about the expedition on my blog: https://mindful-audio.com/blog/sound-recording-amazon-rainforest-expedition

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Dawn and dusk in the Amazon rainforest are particularly lush when it comes to biophony, especially by a slow flowing river. The stark contrast between the beauty of birdsong and the shrill urgency of insect calls is never as evident. Long version at https://youtu.be/Rq6eMZyVFtk

Dusk By The River In The Amazon Rainforest

The symphony of wildlife in the rainforest is more minimalistic but piercing and almost electronic. It takes a while to get accustomed to being surrounded by these sounds, but once you do it's like they've always been there. Long version at https://youtu.be/TiMJASuJmFg

Dark Night In The Amazon Rainforest

Arabian Desert is a collection of stereo and quad soundscapes recorded on the Arabian Peninsula in the Empty Quarter, the largest expanse of sand dunes on Earth. Available at https://mindful-audio.com/arabian-desert/

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A thunderstorm of epic proportions on the horizon in the Amazon rainforest. Long version at https://youtu.be/R8lLynze4Oo

Massive thunderstorm approaching in the Amazon rainforest

As dusk falls in the Amazon rainforest, the sounds of the jungle change dramatically. Long version at https://youtu.be/Yfm_Vkv0C9o

Dusk in the Amazon rainforest

African savanna ambience with birds singing and insects calling at various distances - a beautiful and calm soundscape full of exquisite little detail. Long version at https://youtu.be/5NyIPnT1Wpw

The sound of the African savanna on a calm day

The jungles of the Amazon are calm and still on a hot afternoon. There's a piercing insect chorus - frogs call occasionally - every now and then a bird chirps half-heartedly. Long version at https://youtu.be/l-v3GNgPR78

Lazy afternoon in the Amazon rainforest

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Early in the morning in the Amazon rainforest - the air is thick with humidity and wildlife sounds. The insect chorus is deafening, and birds are trying to do their part by calling incessantly everywhere. Long version at https://youtu.be/2KWrudRbgO8

The Amazon rainforest wakes up

Atacama Desert is a collection of stereo and quad soundscapes recorded in the barren but amazingly beautiful desert plateau of Western Chile. Get it at https://mindful-audio.com/atacama-desert

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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

recorded 12/2016 with 2xAT4022/Olson Wing/SD302/Tascam DR-40

species include Russet-backed Oropendola, Yellow-rumped Cacique, Black-fronted Nunbird, Grey-capped Flycatcher and distant Howler Monkeys

Afternoon by the Oropendola Tree [Peruvian Amazon]

Hydrophone recording aquatic insects in Salt Caves Dam, late afternoon, during the Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group's workshop at Baradine, NSW. 
Recorded using Aquarian hydrophones into Zoom H5. Recording by Leah Barclay

AWSRG workshop 2017

Hydrophone Recording from Salt Caves Dam, Pilliga Forest, Late Afternoon

Birdsong filters through tall eucalypt forest in Australia's eastern highlands.

It is a sunny morning, the day after unsettled weather, and a strong breeze is still moving through trees up on surrounding ridges. But down in the shelter of a narrow gully, among tree ferns and dense shrubs, birds find refuge from the elements. Here, even though there is no running water, the ground is moist and plant growth is dense.

The birdsong heard is typical of these upland forests; golden whistlers, fantails, yellow-faced honeyeaters and grey shrike-thrushes call from the forest midstory. Meanwhile, smaller birds flit among low shrubs; scrub-wrens, spinebills, fairy-wrens and thornbills. From not far off, a superb lyrebird is heard giving a variety of percussive and sonorous vocalisations.

This is a single continuous recording, with an interesting diversity birdsong and just a little of that ridgetop breeze to give a sense of the landscape.

3 minute audio sample from the 70 minute nature sound recording; "In the Refuge of the Fern Gully", available for download from www.listeningearth.com/LE/p-145

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This is one of my most favorite bird vocalizations. Recorded in Belize, this is the Montezuma Oropendola. The strange and remarkable song of the Montezuma Oropendola is an ascending series of overlapping bubbly syllables which crescendo to a high peak.  The song is often accompanied by a scratchy call that is reminiscent of a fizzling firecracker or the ripping of a thick fabric (Stiles & Skutch 1989). A single-syllable whiney eeuh call seems to function as a contact call between birds. Howell and Webb (1995)

Recorder: SD 788t
Microphones: MKH-40/30
Tripod mounted with Rycote windjammer
300 feet cable run
Sample/bit rate: 48k 24 bit
Recordist: Martyn Stewart

Location: Mayan temple, Belize.

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Montezuma Oropendola

Psarocolius montezuma recorded at a nesting colony, near Turrialba, Costa Rica. 5.30am 2nd March 2018. Primo 172 mics AB to SONY PCM-M10
Overall winner of 2019 Competition of Wildlife Sound Recording Society
https://simontelliott.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/some-birds-have-all-the-luck/

Focal species- Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) pair; background- Great Argus Pheasant (Argusianus argus), White-handed Gibbon (Hylobates lar) and misc. birds and insects. 
Recorded with Canon L-1 Hi-8 video- digital audio (July 1991).


Sumatra, Indonesia - Gunung Leuser National Park

Recorded in October 1995 within the Gamba Reserve Complex, near the village of Sounga in Gabon, Central Africa. Recorded onto DAT with two Crown PZM mics placed ~35' apart (for playback in the western lowland gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo &amp; Botanical Garden). As my footsteps disappear into the forest, listen to the symphony of sound build, from just a few soloists to the entire orchestra. Also listen for the "whoosh- whoosh-whoosh-WHOOOOOOOOSH" of a pair of hornbills flying in.


Near Sounga Village- Gamba Reserve, Gabon, Central Africa- 1995 (long)

This recording was made beginning of April 2012 in the Central Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. Material was set up at 4:30AM and recording started shortly after 5:00AM.

At the beginning of the record just some crickets and a single bird are to be heard, but progressively the whole mountain begins to wake with many different kinds of animals celebrating the new day.

I am happy to share this record, as it catches a moment very meaningful to me. Standing still and listening to the mountain with the sun slowly rising was truly a unique experience.



Waking Mountain

Gentle Water Stream on Tompor Mountain in the Central Cardamom Mountains/Cambodia. This mountain is considered holy and there is a hermitage with a friendly monk. The stream is located one kilometer further.

The stream is backed by birds singing their relaxed songs.


Forest Stream

Typical afternoon ambience at a ravine in the Amazon rainforest. Thick insect chorus and noisy parrot calls are punctuated by the unmistakable call of one of the Oropendolas. More sounds and stories at https://mindful-audio.com

Amazon Rainforest - Ravine - Afternoon - Thick Ambience With Oropendola

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Mi gira por Colombia coincidió con el paro nacional –acompañé a mis compañerxs de Cali a las marchas y los cacerolazos, grabando ese ruido de rebeldía para luego amplificarlo en las fiestas en Cali, Medellín y Bogotá. Les regalo este track que me acompañoen la gira para agradecer mi estadía y como gesto de solidaridad.My Colombia tour coincided with the national strike –I went to the marches and “cacerolazos” in Cali, recording the sound of rebellion that I’d later amplify at the parties in Cali, Medellín and Bogotá. I leave you this track that sided me on my tour as a present and gesture of solidarity.

Las cacerolas de Cali remezcladas por Matías Aguayo

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the beautiful calls of an Oropendola bounce from the treeline as an afternoon storm passes. Recorded with Sony PCM M10 and Clippy EM172 mics. More sounds form the Amazon at https://mindful-audio.com/amazon-jungle/

Amazon Rainforest - Oropendola Rain

Zel Zele w/Debora Ipekel & Eren Senkardes - NTS - 16.12.19

Early morning at a small pond - Tabin Wildlife reserve in the Borneo rainforest. A water hen calls incessantly near the mics while a distant Coucal's notes reverberate through the forest. Longer version on Youtube at https://youtu.be/Q3J9ZSPhPKs

Recorded with Sony PCM D10 and Lom MikroUsi microphones taped to the branches of a dead tree in the centre of the pond. Read about my expedition to Borneo at https://mindful-audio.com/blog/sound-recording-borneo

Borneo Rainforest - Morning At The Pond

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

Borneo Rainforest - Evening - Dusk Chorus With Shama

1-hour long version on Youtube: https://youtu.be/NFVI7ioUe-4

It's afternoon in Maliau Basin, deep in the rainforests of Borneo. A late Barbet sings its heart out while daytime insect calls are waning. Empress cicadas prepare for their dusk calls and can be heard towards the end of the recording. A soft mist descends on the valley as deep darkness envelops everything.

Recorded in the Borneo rainforest with Sony PCM D10, Lom MikroUsi micropohones and BubbleBee Windbubbles. More sounds and stories at https://mindful-audio.com

Borneo rainforest - Afternoon in the undergrowth

Humid late afternoon at Tawau Hills national park in Borneo. Hornbill and barbet calls punctuate the continuous insect chorus. 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 - Humid Afternoon - Hornbill And Barbet

Recorded at the Trolob Niu Sacred Site deep into the Siem Pang/Veun Say conservation area in Ratanakiri, Cambodia.

It is striking to hear how a great hornbill moves from the left side of the stereo field right to the center. One can actually hear the flapping of the wings. The bird then begins to make his very loud call. He is sometimes answered by a second hornbill.

Flight of the Great Hornbill - AMBINATOR the ambience generator

Jungle mornings in Borneo are pretty lively, with plenty of birds singing and mammals calling. At Maliau Basin there are many troops of Gibbons whose calls resonate through the valleys. Longer version on Youtube at https://youtu.be/6DhT7SjelLE

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

Borneo rainforest - Calm morning at Maliau Basin

It's early morning at a dry riverbed in the Borneo rainforest. Gentle fog drip creates a subtle drawn-out rhythm while the calls of insects provide a monotonous backdrop. Long version at https://youtu.be/tfP38CFtGOk

Calm morning at riverbed in borneo

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Amazon Rainforest - Oropendola Rain

George Vlad