Quite lively soundscape! Our North American Crow plays a similar mischievous and noisy role here.

@ben-gerstein: Thank you, Ben. Yes, I agree!

Recorded in primary rainforest at Sepilok Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia.

This is an excerpt from a 27 minute track available at https://wildambience.com/albums/sepilok-rainforest-ambience/

Rainforest Ambience - Sepilok Forest Reserve

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Rainforest Ambience - Sepilok Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia

Cryogenic Lullaby (Song 3)

I recorded this early November in 2023. Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari is on the New Zealand, North Island. It´s a warm spring day with sounds of the birds but also farm animals and the occasional vehicle.

Sanctuary Mountain - Day and Evening

Got out of bed at 3.50am.  On the road at 4.46am, arrived at Ballyfad wood at 5.01am, it was then about a nine minute walk to the recording location.  Set up the three recorders, first the Tascam X8 with the Rode Nt4 stereo mic with the Cardioid capsules (52db gain).  Next the Tascam Dr100 Mk2 with the Warm Audio 84's (50db gain), strangely I get problems with these mics if I use them with the MixPre3, but they seem to work beautifully with the Tascam).  Finally I set up the MixPre3 with the MKH8020's, I had not been using these mics for quite awhile as I thought they had gone faulty, but it seems to not be the case.  The weather had been awful for so long, very wet and windy and though the drift of air was not from the best direction I still went for recording even though I could hear a small bit of swish from traffic coming from the motorway.  It was as more about experimenting and checking out the equipment as getting the best recordings, though that would be a bonus.  It was a cool morning, about 5C, near calm, dry and clear.  Left for home at 7.14am, arrived back at 7.31am.   Out of the seven recordings saved from the three long recordings from the three recorders, I like the Warm Audio results the best, they sound so thick and analogue, the levels on screen are very noticeably bigger and thicker than the other recordings, these two are uploaded here.  Recording  4134.

Dawn Chorus (4) 18th of April 2024 - 6.06am - Ballyfad Wood (Warm Audio 84's)

A few green frogs recorded in the village of Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx (Creuse, France) around a watering place near a vegetable garden. In the distance, to the left, other, much more numerous frogs, subjects of another recording.
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Quelques grenouilles vertes (grenouilles communes) dans le village de Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx (Creuse, France) autour d'un point d'eau près du potager de la maraichère. Au loin, à gauche, d’autres grenouilles bien plus nombreuses sujets d’un autre enregistrement.
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46,26195° N, 2,18256° E
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(Zoom F3, Sennheiser MKH8040, ORTF)

240413 · 9:00 pm · Grenouilles Vertes · Green Frogs (Creuse, France)

A little further on than the previous recording, a hidden pond with many more frogs.
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Un peu plus loin que le précédent enregistrement, un étang caché avec bien plus de grenouilles.
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Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx (Creuse, France) 46,26339° N, 2,18290° E
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(Zoom F3, MKH8040, ORTF)

240413 · 10:00 pm ·  Grenouilles Vertes · Green Frogs (Creuse, France)

This recording takes us on a journey, from Südtiroler Platz to Karlsplatz on the line U1 of Vienna's U-Bahn. 

Recorded 11.04.2024
Zoom F3 + 2 x DPA 4060s

U-Bahn Journey - Vienna, Austria

The gentle sounds of wind blowing through the tree canopy and across the forest floor. (beech, pine)

Wind Soundscape - Pine and Mixed Woodland

Large Toadlets/Great Brown Brood Frogs (Pseudophryne major) In a gully feeding into Auburn River, Auburn River National Park. Zoom F1, PUI 5024 mics in a tree-ears rig.

Large Toadlet, Auburn River National Park

A natural symphony of frogs, insects, frogmouths (a type of nocturnal bird) and a distant Great Argus Pheasant recorded around midnight in Lambir Hills National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia.


Midnight in Borneo's Rainforest

Midnight in Borneo's Rainforest - Sarawak, Malaysia

Australian Magpies (the local sub-subspecies is Gymnorhina tibicen telonocua) are extremely intriguing. They are beautiful and sensitive musicians; yet they can also be vicious and violent group-thugs, both to their own and other species. They seem to be as fundamentally contrary, and as fundamentally fascinating, as human beings. Which makes one wonder what goes on in their minds.

This recording was made close to the coast in Deep Creek Conservation Park, South Australia. Hence the roar of the ocean and crashing of large waves in the distance, as perpetual undercurrent throughout (somewhat rolled off, in this version, so as not to compete too much with the vocalisations of the birds). I'd just recorded my second 'Night Listening' episode (https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20200706-night-listenings-winter-location-2-part-1 and https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20200706-night-listenings-winter-location-2-part-2). That was followed by a 'First Light' episode, made at the blurred boundary between the Conservation Park and adjacent pastoral properties (https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20200706-deep-creek-winter-first-light-part-1 and https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20200706-deep-creek-winter-first-light-part-2).

An hour after sunrise, I'd planted my main rig at a third location, within the Conservation Park, some distance farther inland, in what I felt would be a potentially auspicious location, and was wandering towards the ocean, with the D100, through the fringes of the eucalypt forest, seeking out interesting sound events.

This was one of the scenes that I was grateful to have been able to capture. When I later listened to what my main rig had captured, I was intrigued to find that one of the scenes it had recorded was an almost identical kind of exchange between Magpies, nearly a kilometre away (forthcoming).

Aside from Magpies and Ravens, other species occasionally audible in the background of this recording include, among others, Crescent Honeyeaters,  Fairy Wrens,  Galahs, Grey Currawongs, Grey Fantails,  Grey Shrikethrushes, Lorikeets,  Rosellas, Scrubwrens, Willy Wagtails.

Recorded at around 08:30 with a Sony D100. Alternation of calm and slight breezes.  Overcast, 9° C, high humidity. Original recording at 192/24, resampled to 48/24 for upload here. (Best listened to with good quality headphones with a flat frequency response.)

Recorded on land of the Kaurna people, that is now designated as Conservation Park, although the descendants of the Kaurna people have apparently not been engaged by Government in the management and operation of this Conservation Park, as, under all historical, cultural and ethical considerations, they absolutely should have been.

2020.07.06 Coastal Eucalypt Forest. Winter. Morning. Australian Magpie Interactions. Location 1.

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Exploring hearing, the hearable, and the hearer, as an event, a mode, and a dimension of Βeing (τὸ εἶναι).

2020.07.06 Coastal Eucalypt Forest. Winter. Morning. Australian Magpie Interactions. Location 1.

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