Bypass-I

Ambiente de ribera acompañado del canto de pequeñas aves como el pinzón común (Fringilla coelebs), curruca capirotada (Sylvia atricapilla), verdecillo (Serinus Serinus), petirrojo (Erithacus rubecula), herrerillo común (Cyanistes caeruelus) y alguna más.

6-06-2025_Rio Ripoll, Parc Natuarl de Sant Llorenç del Munt i l´Obac.wav

approached two guys to ask if I could record them fixing their car... and this happened lol 

missed opportunity

doodle: unexpected encounter

Frogs in a creek at night: Common Eastern Froglet (Crinia signifera).

2025.08.09 Night Creek Excerpt 1 (Frogs) Omni Mid-Side and Omni AB 63 cm

Note that this is a typical example of a koala's growling being triggered as a response to the distant sound of a vehicle engine (in this instance, probably a light aircraft).

2025.08.09 Night Creek Excerpt 2 (Koala) Omni Mid-Side and Omni AB 63 cm

RC runway at Marine Park in Brooklyn 
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Audio Flux 6 challenge: address "creative tension" theme; include audible repetition (as a reference to the guest artist's knitting/crochet project); assign a color to the piece in the title in parentheses; exactly 3-min

hindsight edit: cut first two sentences and start with the heli sounds?

“Flight Patterns” (orange) for AF6 CREATIVE TENSION theme

Grabacion del canto de un Carabo (Strix aluco), dejando la grabadora montada toda la noche en la misma ubicacion durante 10 horas. Probando grabadora Tascam DR-05XP, 32bits 96 kHz. Editado con Audacity.

250927_0100 +CARABO SOLO+++B

Made using Audiomodern's Opactiy.  Then added guitar/bass/keys on the Logic Pro for the ipad with Arturia Minisfuse 2 interface.


Opacity

Everyday Infrasound in an Uncertain World | Brian House

Although my ideal is to make and share nature recordings free of anthropogenic machine noise, I'm not averse to sitting through first light and dawn in natural places that I know very well will be noise-polluted - simply because I want to hear (and record) dawn choruses in such places, even if I will never, or rarely, share such recordings publicly. At different places, and at different times, dawn choruses are always quite different. Despite intrusive and discordant noise, I still want to experience and to hear what the birds and other animals will say (express, manifest) in such places, and how that will sound in each such physically different space. I feel that I owe them the respect and the effort to set up my recording gear, settle down, and listen and record through the darkness into first light and dawn. I don't wish to avoid, ignore or spurn them just because they have no choice but to exist and to  live their lives in the midst of abrasive human noise. To the contrary, I feel it's deeply important to experience, acknowledge, and respect their lives, their lifeworld, the reality of their way of being, precisely because they are not fortunate enough to live freely and naturally, there where they are and must be. Before I leave, after sunrise, I always thank them, and apologise to them for what the species to which I belong has inflicted upon them (and upon itself), and pray for their future protection and well-being.

This, then, is one of those rare occasions when I have decided to post an excerpt from just such an attended dawn recording, mainly because I find it fascinating and informative, and amusing. To my mind, it provides yet more evidence that Blackbirds (which aren't native to Australia, but released here by English settlers) and native birds don't really get on very well. The conflict or competition is not physical or violent, but expressed through 'voice' and creativity. In this instance, the Blackbirds seem to be ousted and chased away by some extremely vocal and virtuosic Grey Shrike-thrushes. (I should point out that I don't think of what birds do with their 'voices' as 'song' or 'music'. I think that such a notion is merely a somewhat fanciful human interpretation and imposition.)

Another, lesser, reason for posting the excerpt is because it is another exploratory mid-side recording (with a super-cardioid mid mic), made in parallel with an ORTF recording (with a pair of cardioids), which hasn't been posted, here.

Bypass-I

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