Name: Red Deer Rut In Bucovina by George Vlad
Duration: 6 min 23 s
Description: Red deer stags rutting in the Carpathian Mountains, Bucovina, Romania.

For more sound stories: https://acousticnature.com/sound-stories 

From Suburbs to Nature is a sound story narrating my night-time journey from a suburb to a small park. 

Although the park had its share of noise pollution, the difference is still powerful. 

This was my first attempt at this kind of recording. Next time I will use additional wind protection on the LS-10. 

Thanks for listening, any feedback is much appreciated. 

Gear:

Suburb - Olympus LS-10 w/BubbleBee windshields, handheld
Park - Stereo Telinga Modular w/EM272 pair, handheld

From the Suburbs Into Nature: A Virtual Sound Experience

Red deer stags rutting in the Carpathian Mountains, Bucovina, Romania.

Red Deer Rut In Bucovina

I never set out to record the sound of an elephant farting in the African savanna, but here we are so let's be adults about it. Long version at https://youtu.be/q8JdMIp6H78

Elephant farting in the African savanna

Norvik & Blear Moon - The World Inside (2021)
released 22 Oct 2021 on Valley View Records
https://blearmoon.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-inside

Norvik & Blear Moon - Enshaded In Forgetfulness Divine

Tracklist

01. Pan•American - Alentejo
02. Fields We Found - View
03. Anthéne - The Fields
04. Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Pfad_Onset
05. James Murray - Least Resistance
06. Hideo Kobayashi - All of You
07. Grotta Veterano - Slumbers (Part 2)
08. Black Brunswicker - Dreams We Share
09. Ruhe - A Beautiful Weakness
10. Twincities - Harbor-hums
11. xu - Daydream Delusion
12. Andrew Heath & Simon McCorry - Mist

304. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Java – Concert au Puro Mangkunagaran – Collection Musique du Monde 21 – Galloway Records GB 600 540

Indonesia - Java - traditional concert at Puro Mangkunagaran– Ketawang Puspowarno (Slendro Manyuro)

A beautifully ethereal track from the Antonina Car album, Immersed Sensibilities.

Immersed Sensibilities

Antonina Car, Immersed Sensibilities, "Fluttery Critters"

A long soundscape across Dawn in the Queets River Valley rainforest of the Olympic National Park. Starting in Astronomical Twilight, a small herd of Roosevelt Elk walks in from a distance, though a small forest glade, an away towards the Queets River bed.

Early Autumn rainfall and dropping Maple Leaves are the dominant sounds to begin, their pak-pak-spaks are a reminder that time passes, even in the still quiet of a moss-covered forest.

Highway 101 in less than 12 miles away, and distant traffic is funneled up the Valley, showing the difficulty of escaping human-generated sound. This has been mitigated somewhat with light processing, but close listening and inspection will make remnants evident. There are no other edits or processes committed.

I love the crisp cold air of the rainforests in the fall. Sounds, natural and human generated, carry into the distant. Tucked into my sleeping bag, I lay back in my small tent, listening to the forest awaken. Where once there was just the soft distant wash of the river, the elk are joined by the local birds. Steller's Jays shriek their song with grating-yet-amusing "CHA-CHA-CHA-CHAs". A Northern Saw-whet toots in the forest canopy. Young Varied Thrush practice their songs, not quite reaching the beautiful and haunting signature fluting of their predecessors, instead emitting a silly buzzer-bell-like noise. Pacific Wren singing at the end of their season and the occasional Kingfisher make an appearance as well. Noe of these complete with the sheer vibrance of the elk.

Roosevelt Elk or Roosevelt's Wapiti or Rainforest Elk are the largest remaining elk species in North America and thrive in shadowy silences of the Pacific Northwest's temperate rainforests. Bull's bugles and roars echo through the trees, becoming one of the signature sounds of the Olympic Mountains. The cows mew and squeal in return, listening for one another to not wander far astray.

The small herd is a tight-nit family group, a with one, maybe two, dominant bulls, five or six cows in their harem, and a handful of young. The dominant bull leads the group on a daily hike, down from the upper valley to the river and back again. Their bugles urge the group, both signaling the direction to go and scolding those that dawdle. As they pass through the glade, their heavy footfall on the vegetative floor thump-thump-thumps their presence as much as the vocalizations and the continued crushing of vegetation as they push by.

I can't get enough of their energy. They pull back frequently. No matter how many times I encounter them, Elk never cease to awe me.

Click through the comments below for some highlights!

Northwest Soundscapes

Queets River Valley Rainforest Dawn with Roosevelt Elk

perf. by Rūta & Zbignevas Ibelhauptas Piano Duo (LT)
Commissioned by the “Warsaw Autumn” foundation

A slow metamorphosis of silence of the falling snow. Alongside it is a metamorphosis of touching the piano; a study of the touches that vibrate the pianos and turn them into long sounding, resonating objects. Thus you realize that the piano keys are like certain magic buttons by which resonating abysses of the piano can be raised. If you succeed in pressing them right, you may hear at least some music of those resonating abysses, meanwhile the sounds of the key attacks are just little iceberg peaks sticking out on the surface.

Desktop

"Silence of the falling Snow" for 2 pianos (2003)

This is a quiet pause for reflection and memories. The art work is by my father, Ralph M. Hooper Sr. (1919-1977).

Clouds

Recollection

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Echoes in the Valley, Vol. 2

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

Red Deer Rut In Bucovina

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