Spring arrives in our neighborhood 25/2/2022.

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(MKH8020 ab80cm, 24/48, no processing, no mix, flac)

Deus ex machina - 25/2/2022 - Makholma Woods

Summer night on Hällsjön at around 1:00am. Eurasian Bittern, Common Snipe, Eurasian Woodcock, Sedge Warbler and many more species were actively calling 
through the (short!) night.

Hällsjön Wetland Night Soundscape - Sweden

Testing AKG CK91 ORTF

While visiting Hawaii in March of 2022 I enjoyed unique patches of the bamboo forest on Maui. The sound of the environment completely changed as soon as I entered the thick forest. In the dense bamboo a compelling percussive sound starts in the distance and ebbed toward me as the wind swayed the tall skinny shoots. Clicking and clacking together it felt as if this spontaneous rhythm passed through me.

Hawaii - Wind In The Bamboo Forest - 25 minutes of Nature

Geophones, hydrophones, contact mic and 6 omnidirectional microphones

Notes
As the light diminished, the volcanic palette undergoes a kaleidoscopic transformation, revealing an iridescence a spectral shimmering.

The sands embody the ethereal interplay of otherworldly pigments that defy earthly conventions.
Listening with multispecies ecologies: volcanic rock pools teeming with life , hermit crabs, Black Sea urchin, Goby and Shrimp, with tides crashing nearby. Human perception and language too limited to describe these multiplicitous worlds.

Using  geophones to  convert ground movement (velocity) into voltage, in attempt to pick up subterranean vibrations. The deviation of this measured voltage from the base line is called the seismic response and is analysed for structure of the earth.
In this majestic Canary Islands. We discovered alien, enigmatic volcanic landscapes, lava fields and magical caves and art by Cesar Manrique. An island carved and shaped with creativity and art.

Speculative Field Trip: Timanfaya National Park in Lanzarote

5th June 2016: Sea waves recorded on the black volcanic beach spit at the mouth of the Ölfusá river near Eyrarbakki, Iceland. 

This is part of a mid-side comparison test and was recorded with a Sennheiser MKH30 and a Sennheiser MKH60.

For another recording with the MKH8040 cardioid microphone in the mid position, same perspective, follow this link:

soundcloud.com/iainhetherington/waves-at-eyrarbakki-iceland-decoded-midside-with-mkh8040-mid

Waves at Eyrarbakki Iceland - Decoded MidSide with MKH60 Mid

I know many people will record the sound of waves and I admit it is really hard to get a true representation of what you actually hear. I tried using a holophone surround sound system and I feel if you listen to it on a surround system it sounds pretty close to what I was hearing. 
Either way it was a beautiful beach with no one but myself on it. Oh ya the leather back turtles were amazing to watch as they crawled up on the beach to lay their eggs. There must have been thousands of them and it went on for days.

Ocean Waves

Gibbons calling early in the morning in the Borneo rainforest. Downloadable recording made with Sound Devices Mixpre 6 ii and Sennheiser MKH8040/MKH30 DMS rig. Decoded from DMS to Stereo. All rights reserved. Full Mixpre review available at https://mindful-audio.com/blog/sound-devices-mixpre-ii-review

Sound Devices Mixpre 6 II Demo - Borneo morning gibbons

"LARX002 67 Lake near wooded shore Summer Night 00 05 Very quiet Fog Arctic Loons two grunting and howling sequence Longhorn beetle larvae ticking cracking Splashes around small ST Demo". This is an ambience from my sound effects library Karelia, Northern Europe Vol. 2: Lakeside Ambiences Summer". All rights reserved. You can learn more and buy this Library at my site 
https://larxaudio.com

Lake Summer Night Arctic Loons Grunting And Howling, Longhorn Beetles, Splashes ST

Sound of a pocket watch from 1884, recorded with 2 LOM's Uši Pro and 1 Aquarian Audio H2a as a contact mic.

Taschenuhr von 1884

This is recorded over a three day period using multiple microphones I built. The latest was a pair of TSC-1 Capsules with Dual OPA impedance couplers. Then we get to a pair of figure 8's spaced 12 inches apart facing same direction. We close with the same TSC-1 Capsule mics in ORTF with outboard TSB2555B mic's about 10 feet to left and right

BrokenBow OK September 2020

Yii Kah Hoe, Composer/improviser
https://www.youtube.com/c/ListeningtoNature

Testing AKG CK91 ORTF

Listening to Nature

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