I sat with the forest. I sat far farther back from the overlooking edge seen in this photo. I didn't watch, I only listened.
I was deeply touched by the inexorable reality that, 'before' and 'after', which are but an imagination, nothing whatsoever had changed; nothing whatsoever COULD change. Business will grind on as usual, of course.
In the recording, if you listen from beginning to end, the sounds will tell the truth: both metaphorically, metaphysically, and quite literally.
Whatever will be 'new' - truly, existentially 'new' - must come, and can ONLY come, fundamentally, from us: our own minds, our own actions, our own ways of being.

Related yet unrelated track: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20191231-to-20200101-small-city-new-year-as-heard-from-far-away

2022.12.31 - 2023.01.01. What the Forest Heard.

[PL]
Trzecie piętro w pensjonacie jest podwyższone o poddasze, aż po samą kalenicę. Od strony wewnętrznej zamurowane jest okrągłe okienko, które wcześniej chyba służyło do wietrzenia przestrzeni pod samym dachem. Od strony zewnętrznej została wnęka, w której co roku gniazdują pustułki. Pokój na poddaszu często wypełniają wydawane przez nie dźwięki - jedyne, co je oddziela to cienka ścianka. Pustułki krążą w najbliższej okolicy, przysiadają na drzewach, polują i rywalizują o terytorium.
Nagranie powstało podczas kilkugodzinnej sesji, a prezentowany fragment przypada na największą aktywność pustułek.
Zdjęcie zrobione przy innej okazji, kiedy pustułka przysiadła na parapecie okna poniżej wnęki, gdzie zakładają gniazdo.


[EN]
The third floor in the guesthouse includes a raised attic, all the way up to the roof ridge. From the inside, a round window is walled up, which was probably used to ventilate the space under the roof. From the outside, there is a recess in which kestrels nest every year. The room in the attic is often filled with the sounds they make - the only thing that separates them is a thin wall. Kestrels fly around in the vicinity, perch on trees, hunt and compete for territory.
The recording was made during a few-hour session, and the presented fragment is when the kestrels were the most active.
Photo was taken on another occasion, when the kestrel perched on the window sill below the niche where they make a nest.


2023/05/18; 19:45 - 20:05
Zoom F4, AT BP4025

Pustułki przez ścianę / Kestrels through the wall

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)

Lots of fallen trees in my home forest after the winter storms but this old pine (yes, photo shows a Norway spruce) never fell to the ground. It is lodged against another pine creating this creaking sound. Nåsten, April 19, 2024.

Zoom F3 + Mikro Usi Pro

Creaking pines

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

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

2022.12.31 - 2023.01.01. What the Forest Heard.

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