So enjoyable. One question, and one observation. (1) The question: I imagine that you are sitting inside this barn while recording this, with your headphones on, listening... Am I right or wrong? (2) One of the things I love most about your recordings is how, solely through the ears, they stimulate every other sense, other than vision (except vision through imagination). For example, my skin is tingling, almost shivering, listening to this. Very few field recordists to whom I have listened have this kind multisensory quality in their recordings. In other words, you are a great inspiration and teacher to field recordists. I want to hear so much more from you.

Dive

Tikal

The evening of my 5th and final night in the Chattahoochee National Forest brought extreme winds. I setup an LS-10 with a SASS microphone near my camp to capture the ambience. 

This 25min segment is the highlight of the powerful winds that swept over the ridge that night. 

During spring of 2021, I spent 5 nights camping in and recording the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia (4/18 - 4/23). Specifically, I was at the Lake Conasauga overflow campground.

Lake Conasauga is an artificial lake that is very popular with fishing people and camping families. Due to this popularity, I knew before I arrived that I didn't want to camp on the lake itself. As predicted, the lake was very busy (noisy) with people during my stay.

The overflow campground was quiet, empty, and was the location of the songbird trailhead; a trail leading to a mountain pond created by beavers. The area around the pond is managed by the Forest Service for bird diversity.

This trip was the longest period I've ever gone with zero human interaction in my life. From Sunday evening to Friday afternoon, the only people I saw were driving by the campground on the gravel road, and even then there were few vehicles. 

This area within the Chattahoochee blessed me with so many amazing experiences and sounds. By my last day I was filled with so much love and appreciation for the land. I've never felt more connected with our planet.

Please enjoy this presentation of one of the most peaceful places on Earth. Thank you for listening, until later ☼

30+ MPH Wind - Beautiful and Powerful Soundscape (7:45pm) - LS-10 w/SASS

It was a very windy day. Summer breaking point. The hot and dry summer started to get rainy and cold. The strong wind that day was a sign of that change. The grass in the meadow was dense and high, and deep inside, there was a grasshopper. I carefully moved the microphones under the grass near the grasshopper. The grass worked very well as "dead cat" or natural "wind muff" and the wind roared in the nearby trees and meadow. After recording, I sank the camera where I heard the grasshopper to look at the place from the grasshopper's perspective.

Tascam Dr-100 MK III digital recorder
An Azden microphone pre-amplifier/mixer
Handmade phantom powered Primo Microphones with EM172 capsules. 24 bit 48kHz

Grasshopper and Wind in Soomaa National Park, Estonia. August 12, 2021

'ambient tape I' by hanut munson
@hanutmunson

Also on the 'Ambient I' compilation:
atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-i

Audio mastering by Seth Bellow.
Cover art design by Anthony Asher - Yates.

Ambient I

ambient tape i

hanut munson - ambient tape I

I've been recording throughout Deep Creek National Park (formerly Conservation Park) for several years, and throughout all seasons. This recent recording was different from any other I've made here. It was dominated mainly by Australian Ravens and Magpies, although a few other birds make an appearance, such as what I believe was an energetic little Brown Thornbill in the foreground, at one point. In other recordings made during the same morning at other nearby locations, Grey Shrike-thrushes and White-throated Treecreepers, amongst others, could be heard.

What I like most about this recording is the recurring, distant, beautiful, wistful call of a Magpie somewhere much farther up the valley: its song is sometimes occluded by the nearer Ravens and Magpies; and sometimes, in more quiet intervals, its song reverberates gently, quietly, and elegantly down the valley.

Can be listened to with speakers or headphones; but quality open-backed headphones are especially recommended.

Unprocessed and unedited recording (96/24 WAV > 48/24 FLAC).

Recorded on land of the Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri people that is now a National Park.

2022.05.08 Coastal Eucalypt Forest. Dawn. Deep Creek. Late Autumn.

Opening track from the album Voor De Dageraad.

Full album link:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/v…ageraad

Voor De Dageraad

Birds

Atmøsphäre & Post Apocalyptic - Birds [Shimmering Moods Records]

Bardo Tea - Symologue (2016)

A track that evolved from building up layers of synth sequences. Wanted to create something floaty and meditative, but then I twisted it with an electro style beat. Has a vibe that recalls some of my tracks from around ten years ago, as well as the obvious nods to Tangerine Dream :) Though the beat is a bit more Kraftwerk.

Some Synth info:
Moog Mini V (2 instances)  - Doing lower end bass work
ARP2600V - 1 note sequence modulated
Korg Poly 6 - High end plinky sequence
Korg MS20 - Square modulated 1 note sequence
Oberheim Matrix 12 - Pads
Virtual String Synth - Phillacordia pads
Tal Bassline 101 - Lead's/ Synth perc
Virtual CZ - Lead compliment
Spark Vintage Drum Machine's - 606 Drums (edited)

Made in Ableton Live

Sequence_D

Inside a barn in a Blizzard with snowfall and hails. Leistila Fields, Western Finland. Listen with headphones only.

Updating www.rupuranta.net

(MKH8020 ab60cm, MixPre3, 32>24/48, nothing else done in edit, flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

A Barn in a Blizzard - 13/4/2020 - Leistila Fields

track 7 from “Hyogo” by Hirotaka Shirotsubaki (@infection)

https://stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/hyogo

Hyogo

Support on Bandcamp

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Hasaka

An old forest in central Sweden with woodpeckers drumming

Woodpeckers in early Spring, Sweden

Ploughing aural fields in remote North.

Field recordist, bird watcher and a digitized former darkroom rat living in little Makholma village on the West Coast of Finland by the Baltic Sea - 61N 21E

These recordings are done in AB stereo with omnidirectional microphones. With this technique everything in the field will be equally meaningful, even the silence behind the microphones. That's why you should use headphones!

My recordings are merely like a process than individual tracks, and should be considered in the context of my blog-alike site:  www.baltic.fi

For better quality, the tracks are downloadable as 24 bit flac. For commercial use, please take contact.

You will find my videowork here: https://vimeo.com/holotna/videos 

And pics from the places of recordings: https://holotna.pic.fi/kuvat/


Tekijä on Makholman kalarannan liepeillä majaansa pitävä digitalisoitunut pimiörotta. Intohimona linnut, meri ja vanhat puupurret.

A Barn in a Blizzard - 13/4/2020 - Leistila Fields

Jan Eerala

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