What does it feel like to be immersed in a rainforest, far away from people and surrounded by nature? As daylight starts to fade, this experience is not necessarily a blissful or relaxing one, especially if this is your first time in the Congo basin. Long version at https://youtu.be/X-61RmPgBzA

Nightfall In The Congo Jungle

Ancient Forests Morning Soundscape, Distant Gibbons Symphony, Belum Temenggor, Malaysia

Recorded on four channels nearby laggon under  Svínafellsjökull glacier south of Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland.
Two microphones are recording the soundscape above the  glacier lagoon and two hydrophones are placed in the lagoon.
More information will be found at http://fieldrecording.net


Above and under the glacier lagoon surface

On the border between Gabon and R Congo, the thick jungle gives way to sparser savanna dotted with pockets of forest. The sound of these habitats is more open and lush than what you would hear in primary or secondary rainforest. Longer version on Youtube at https://youtu.be/QPivYjhPxMQ

Gabon Savanna Morning

Sonic spooky beauty at the midst of night at the bank of the Black River.

Deep in the night, at the banks of the black river

Marco Lucchi : toy harp and analog synthesizer

11 novembre 2020

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Better - than Music! For I - who heard it -
I was used - to the Birds - before -
This - was different - 'Twas Translation -
Of all tunes I knew - and more -

'Twas'nt contained - like other stanza -
No one could play it - the second time -
But the Composer - perfect Mozart -
Perish with him - that keyless Rhyme!

So - Children - told how Brooks in Eden -
Bubbled a better - melody -
Quaintly infer - Eve's great surrender -
Urging the feet - that would - not - fly -

Children - matured - are wiser - mostly -
Eden - a legend - dimly told -
Eve - and the Anguish - Grandame's story -
But - I was telling a tune - I heard -

Not such a strain - the Church - baptizes -
When the last Saint - goes up the Aisles -
Not such a stanza splits the silence -
When the Redemption strikes her Bells -

Let me not spill - it's smallest cadence -
Humming - for promise - when alone -
Humming - until my faint Rehearsal -
Drop into tune - around the Throne -

Emily Dickinson

toy harp n°13 (+ analog synth)

This has been a stormy fall, and in Finland has been already 40 days with stormy wind speeds as the average is 27 a year.  A small, but intense low pressure passed over creating wind speeds up to 31,3 m/s in the gusts and 27 m/s as average. 

I couldn’t resist recording this storm just in our backyard as it was evident when I opened the front door in the morning that this wind is going to make damage. (The picture)

Recording storms creates mostly undefined white noise that’s not very pleasant to listen. But it seems, that when the wind gets hard enough, there occurs (more or less) strange noise patterns with regular shapes that can make it sound interesting. 

In situ I could hear cars passing and chainsaws running.  I hope there’s a bit of this weird noise left in this recording, at least when listening with headphones.

And yes, when the gusts were as strongest, two trees come down. One pine on the roof of our neighbors sauna building 6.50 and an other one with the tree trunk breaking 8.28 

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, nothing done in edit, 24/48 flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Storm in my Backyard - 19/11/2020 - Makholma Finland

Bobby Rangell: alto sax
Nico Arnicho: percussion
Daniel Diaz: acoustic bass guitar & live synth sparkles

Live in the studio recording, circa 2007 in Paris, reworked and remixed Friday November 27th 2020.

Again, from the  masters I got back some weeks ago and I am rediscovering and reworking some music for there.

This is part of a one day session with these extraordinary musicians  this is the only session with the three of us together in the studio. We recorded tones of music that day, including [junto0463](https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/two-memories-gradient-disquiet0463) and [naviarhaiku358](https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/black-horse-naviarhaiku358) with a 4th element , Pajaro Canzani on guitar)

This is the introduction to an instrumental composition we recorded for a producer (documentary) who accepted the mix but later asked for the introduction to be removed.
So this free form 2 minutes remained unused.
I remixed this today for 27/NOV/2020 thanksgiving  junto challenge
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0465-you-thank 
as a thank you note for those excellent musicians.

I spent some time live and i the studio with Bobby since that day, but completely lost track of Nico, 10.000 Km between us...

Going back to these masters is a joy and reminds me how great it is to play together with fellow musicians and how grateful I am that I could do it with such great, talented guys.


Photo by DD: self portrait with blue forms

Happy thanksgiving everybody, love
DD 27/NOV/2020

Deep Blue 01 (Giving Thanks) - disquiet0465

Phonography : Afternoon at Playa Blanca, facing the Pacific Ocean, looking and listen at the Scarlet Macaws flying and feeding around us.

Recorded at Playa Blanca, in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.

Microphones : MS Sennheiser 8040-30
Recorder : Sound Device MixPre 10T

GPS coordinates : 8.6425,-83.4341667

02/19/2019

more records and informations about this project :

www.phonography.world/

Phonography : Scarlet Macaws at Playa Blanca, Costa Rica (8.6425,-83.4341667)

This is a recording I made at a large Weaver nest in Etosha NP, Namibia. Longer version and more details at https://youtu.be/K8qNPMqECI0

Secret Life Of A Weaver Nest

Mexican Tree Frog (Smilisca baudini) and Túngara frog (Engystomops pustulosus)in Metapán, Santa Ana, El Salvador. Recorded with Telinga Parabola, Senheisser ME 62 and Roland R-26. Jul 26th 2018.
Rana de árbol (Smilisca baudini) y Rana Túngara (Engystomops pustulosus)en Metapán, Santa Ana, El Salvador. Grabado con Parabola Telinga, Senheisser ME 62  y Roland R-26. 26 jul 2018

Charca de ranas

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

Secret Life Of A Weaver Nest

George Vlad