Name: Masai Traditional Music by George Vlad
Duration: 15 min 56 s
Description: Ethnic music from Mara Rianta village in the Masai Mara. Recorded with Sony PCM D100. Read about my expedition to Kenya at https://mindful-audio.com/blog/2020-sound-recording-expedition-kenya

Beautifully recorded, George. May I ask if you used the 120 degree mic spread? Very full and detailed soundstage.

This is a very special recording George. There’s such energy and joy here! Were they performing for you? Thank yoy for this. 

Ethnic music from Mara Rianta village in the Masai Mara. Recorded with Sony PCM D100. Read about my expedition to Kenya at https://mindful-audio.com/blog/2020-sound-recording-expedition-kenya

Masai Traditional Music

Thunderstorm in Amazonia, Ecuado, a small selection from a longer recording.

Ecuador Thunderstorm Sample

Ecuador Thunderstorm

Full Album: https://acousticnature.bandcamp.com/album/hammersley-wild-area

Blog Post: https://acousticnature.com/journal/recording-nature-sounds-hammersley-wild-area-pennsylvania 

This is a demo of my latest field recording trip to the Hammersley Wild Area in Pennsylvania. The full album consists of 12 tracks totaling 1 hour of pure nature sounds.

The album is available on BandCamp (see above link) for “name your price” and is intended for personal listening use only. 

If you’d like to license any of my recordings, please email me at Jared@AcousticNature.com

Thanks for listening!

DEMO: Hammersley Wild Area, PA | Personal Listening Album on BandCamp

for orchestra (2019)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (orchestra)

extract of world premiere, Tectonics Glasgow, City Halls, Glasgow, 1 May 2022

recorded by BBC Radio 3; used with permission

www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

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Weligwic (Anglo-Saxon, ‘place of willows’) is a sibling of my string quartet Leafleoht (‘Leaf-light’, 2018), and is similarly concerned with images of light and foliage, and our indwelling in the natural world (a theme woven through the mythology of willows since ancient times). The two pieces share many materials and follow a similar three-section structure, but whereas Leafleoht is concerned with daylight and brightness, Weligwic takes place in a half-light and is overcast and subdued in atmosphere. The first section consists of a series of extremely soft, fleeting aural glimpses; in the long central section, the Grove, the continuous, variegated string texture (a matrix through which each player wanders independently) acts as a field of sounds underlying other, intermittent layers; the third section sees a repeated brightening of the atmosphere, as on a cloudy day when the sun nearly breaks through.

Weligwic (extract)

glitch/free impro/electric guitar/live electronics/coding.

parallel layers [2]

Sionskoe Lake

This is a compilation of several tracks available on the Rhythm of Kubah album which is downloadable in mp3 or FLAC format from https://wildambience.com/albums/rhythm-of-kubah/

Rhythm of Kubah

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Rhythm of Kubah - Sarawak, Borneo: Album Sample

Many of the symptoms of anxiety arise due to the stress response disengaging the diaphragm from the process of respiration. 
https://midlmeditation.com/meditation-for-anxiety

Re-engagement of the diaphragm in autonomous breathing switches off chest hyperventilation and allows depleted C02 levels to re-balance. This results in a decrease in anxiety symptoms such as hyperventilation, tightness of chest, mental dullness, agitation and restlessness which make us defensive and affects our social interactions with others.

MIDL Mindfulness Meditation

Meditation for Anxiety: Retrain Your Breathing Patterns

30 June 2020

During an unattended nocturnal recording session in a patch of old-growth forest a rain and thunder weather passed over during late evening hours. Birds stopped singing except for a Common Chiffchaff which actually seemed triggered by the rain and thunder.

Vindeln commune, Northern Sweden (64.11 N, 19.44 E)

Primos, +6 dB, 150 Hz/6 dB low cut filter in post

Chiffchaff singing in rain and thunder

Soft sand being blown over a hard crust of sand on a dune in the Namib desert. Read about my expedition to Namibia at https://mindful-audio.com/blog/namibia-sound-recording-2020

Skeleton Coast - Sand Dune In Moderate Wind

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

Masai Traditional Music

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