210821 PESS - Suogang 鎖港 - 6 extracts

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio (PESS) 
http://www.kalerne.net 
by Yannick Dauby 澎葉生

Suogang 鎖港, Penghu 澎湖, Taiwan 台灣 
Recording device was deployed during 24 hours near a coral reef, a bit distant from the shore (check on the map with GPS coordinates). Water was very blur, weather was very stable (very little waves and wind, sunny). Here is a selection of six extracts. None of the species present in these recordings are identified. But the percussive sounds recorded during the sunrise (extract 4) are probably a morning chorus by damselfishes. Also, the very low frequency sounds in the last extracts probably belong to Pomacanthus semicirculatus, the Semi-Circle Angelfish which was visually observed in the recording site. A lot of things is happening in the lower frequencies, please use appropriate equipment (good headphones or loudspeakers) - laptop and mobile loudspeaker won’t be able to reproduce those sounds ! For more information about the recording equipment, please read the PDF report from PESS 2018 (link at www.kalerne.net).

*Please do not use these sounds without permission*

EQUIPMENT = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2c with USB battery in underwater enclosure
GPS = approx. Lat. 23.5135 Long. 119.6091 
DEPTH ＝ 4 meter at lowest tide. 
DATE/TIME = between 21.08.2021 and 22.08.2021 

Extract 1 recorded on 21.08.2021 at 14:33
Extract 2 recorded on 21.08.2021 at 18:02
Extract 3 recorded on 22.08.2021 at 02:35
Extract 4 recorded on 22.08.2021 at 05:26
Extract 5 recorded on 22.08.2021 at 11:09
Extract 6 recorded on 22.08.2021 at 13:31

210821 PESS - Suogang 鎖港 - 6 extracts

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net
by Yannick Dauby 澎葉生

Underwater Recording
Equipment = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2c with USB battery in underwater enclosure
Date/Time = from 25.07.2020 12:03 to 26.07.2020 15:42
GPS = 23.515714, 119.572440
Habitat = coral reef
Note = Autonomous recorder running during 24h. This extract was recorded on 13.07.2022 around 21:15 it features snapping shrimps (of course) and damselfishes. Some low frequency sounds may be produced by angelfishes and other sounds are not identified yet.
Normalization and slight equalization was used.

220713 - Jingan 21h15 Extract

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net
by Yannick Dauby

Suogang 鎖港, 15:37
Recording device was set during 24 hours. This extract present, of course pistol shrimps, but also intense activity of fishes knocking at lower frequencies (60-900 Hz).

GPS = 23.30.48N 119.36.33E
DEPTH ＝ 4 meter
DATE/TIME = 30.05.2018 15:37
EQUIPMENT = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2c with USB battery in underwater enclosure

220718 Suogang 鎖港 Extr

During a couple of days in the mountains with film-makers friends, my high-end microphones couldn't cope with the crowd of hiking elders and the Autumn rain. As soon as I got back to Taipei, I had a meeting in my unfavorite area of Xinyi, and on my way, I succeed to record the weird wildlife of the metro, using my most hated audio tool, a mobile phone. Enjoy (but sorry, no English subtitles). No mastering, no editing.

221124 Metro Wildlife in Taipei

Aix-en-Provence, 21.01.2023 at noon.
Always keep a handheld recorder in your bag (PCM-D100 for this one).
Sound : bells of St Jean de Malte Church.
Image : Celtic-Ligure sculpture in the art museum nearby.

230121 Aix-en-Provence

Meeting on a sound loom. A flute and a computer, amplified little things. Pile of shale, branches of coral, a few hidden recordings and electronic devices. No clear idea, just weaving the making and the listening.

Lacking Sound Festival 88
2014, October, 18 (Sat) ＠Former Air Force Command Headquarter

More info here : http://www.kalerne.net/yannickdauby/?p=282

(photo by Etang Chen)

141018 David Toop & Yannick Dauby - Live in Taipei

Chorus of endemic treefrogs of Taiwan :
莫氏樹蛙 Rhacophorus moltrechti Boulenger, 1908.
台北樹蛙 Rhacophorus taipeianus Liang & Wang, 1978.

Recorded near Jiaping Camp, Yilan County, Taiwan.
13.04.2024 20:40
Sony PCM-D100 + Primo EM272

240413 treefrog chorus, Jiaping, Yilan, Taiwan

Calls of Munjtac deer :
山羌 Muntiacus reevesi (Ogilby, 1839)

Also a chorus of endemic treefrogs of Taiwan :
莫氏樹蛙 Rhacophorus moltrechti Boulenger, 1908.
台北樹蛙 Rhacophorus taipeianus Liang & Wang, 1978.

Recorded near Jiaping Camp, Yilan County, Taiwan.
14.04.2024 04:50
Sony PCM-D100 + Primo EM272

240414 Muntjac deer with tree frogs chorus, Jiaping, Yilan, Taiwan

updated version (new set of capacitors and a decagram)

150513 Lil Sidrassi 2

Sounds recorded by the participants, editing by Y.D.
October 21-23, 2016.

Mitakayal is a project by Laling Yumin and Wagi Qmisan.
Skaru group of Atayal people in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
www.mitakayal.org

(Chinese version of the text at www.yannickdauby.net or www.kalerne.net)

Preparation : packing my own equipment (and forgetting my boompole, taking my two kids to the mountains for doing a workshop is not the easiest part of this project), preparing some sounds for sharing, some portable recorders and headphones for the participants.
Leaving home and driving, arriving at Mitakal : suddenly, the change of environment, from the hills of Taipei to mid-altitude mountains of Hsinchu has an immediate effect on me : reappropriate the senses, change the perspective, adapt to another timeframe.
We start by a listening session. I often believe it is better to open the ears indoor. I usually bring my old pair of loudspeakers (who traveled everywhere in Taiwan from Matsu to Pingtung, from Qimei to Yilan) so I know what kind of auditory experience I can provide. Ethnographical documents such as the vanished indigenous people of Terra del Fuego, fragments of sound environments from Antarctica, my own recordings of the fauna of Taiwan (amphibians, mammals, birds, underwater creatures), those are tools for reconnecting the ears to the imagination, offering a new field of perception.
Then the technical explanations : the tools are simple, portable recorders, protections against the wind for the sensitive built-in microphones, and the mandatory headphones that allows to check in real-time what is being recorded. These items help to concentrate the attention on sound and bring another type of body experience, a mediated interface between the ears, the hand and the environment.
The first work of a field recordist is to listen to the world through these devices : the microphone acts like a telescope or a microscope, it allows to discover the sounds from another perspective and even allows to explore the sonic phenomena that are usually hard or impossible to detect. The headphone isolate from the direct sounds, it projects the audition towards outside. It's a bit like if the hands were holding the ears.
We try the equipment indoor, then go out, in the night. The absence of daylight helps forgetting a bit about vision. Insects, night birds and some muntjack and flying squirrels are singing all along. And the wind, and the water are singing too, it is a tapestry of sound.
The participants are very quick. They jump and dive into this listening experience. They were ready for it, because they have an intense relationship to their environment, their knowledge of the forest, of the mountain is coming from their practice of hunting, gathering, observing. They immediately embrace the devices for listening to the sounds, and start collecting them.
Later during the night, the collective discussing is partly a sharing, partly a re-processing of this experience.
The path is open, they know what is possible, they can develop their own sound project.
The next day, they spend a bit of time alone. Some will try to make a sound trap by settling the recorder at the entrance of a pangolin's burrow, some will record cicadas and bird songs, some will catch the delicate popping sound of some seeds drying in the sun. The last hours are spent introducing about sound editing, using software for cutting, arranging, mixing the recorded sounds.
The workshop was very short, but extremely satisfying : I have the feeling that not only the participants could swallow and digest what I wanted to share, but also immediately imagine some ways to implement the field recording practice.
Also, they even made a new boompole for me, with bamboo.

161022 Sound Workshop 聲音工作坊 @ Mitakayal

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
http://www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Location = Sai Gong Da / Black Rock islet 布萊克岩
Date = 10.04.2017
Time = 09:33
Habitat : seabed is sandy, with some rocks
Depth = Around 2 meters deep
GPS = 23.581177, 119.540492
Equipment = Zoom H5 + Aquarian Audio H2a-XLR
Notes = recorded from a kayak, check this little video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na-fFFBdBdY

170410 Sai Gong Da

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
http://www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Tidal pool at Longmen 龍門, Penghu 澎湖, Taiwan 台灣
GPS = 23.581181666666666,119.63126333333334
Date : 09.04.2017 16:40
Hydrophone on the sand, between sea urchins, sea cucumbers, hermit-crabs

170409 Longmen 龍門 Tidal Pool - 1

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
http://www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Tidal pool at Longmen 龍門, Penghu 澎湖, Taiwan 台灣
GPS = 23.553828333333332,119.69139333333332
Date : 09.04.2017 17:00
Hydrophone between a bunch of hermit-crabs crawling on rocks

170409 Longmen 龍門 Tidal Pool - 2

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
http://www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Underwater Recording + Snorkeling
Equipment = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2aXLR 
Date/Time = 15.04.2017 around 4PM
GPS = around 23.515352, 119.608666
Habitat = coral reef
Note = recorder in plastic box on a floater dragged, hydrophone hanging about 10-50 cm above the coral.

170415 Suogang 鎖港 recording-snorkeling

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
http://www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Longmen 龍門, Penghu 澎湖, Tidal Pool
黑鐘螺 Tegula argyrostoma
sea snail feeding on rock
tiny tidal pool, just a few cm of water
Hydrophone very very close (sometimes contact with the shell)
GPS = 23.5265851,119.6004699
DATE/TIME = 16.042017 21:15

170416 黑鐘螺 Tegula argyrostoma

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
http://www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Shili 嵵裡, Penghu 澎湖

The condition of the coral here is sparse. But a good diversity of animals  lives there (seen a lot of tropical fishes, moray eels, nudibranchs, many sea urchins). 
This recording is probably Dascyllus trimaculatus 三斑圓雀鯛 Domino Damselfish making territorial sounds. Sounds were loud enough to be heard by the ear. 

GPS = approx 23.517330, 119.573332
DEPTH ＝ 2 meters
DATE/TIME = 21.04.2017 13:30
EQUIPMENT = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2aXLR

170421 Shili 嵵裡 Dascyllus trimaculatus

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Wude 五德, Penghu 澎湖

Very little waves, sea weeds. 
Recording slowed approx 4.3 times, revealing many little sounds of bubbles and other unidentified sources.

GPS = approx 23.531358, 119.592027
DEPTH ＝ 10 cm
DATE/TIME = 29.04.2017 17:00

170429 Wude 五德

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Mudou Island 目斗嶼, Penghu 澎湖

At high tide, on the side of the stone weir 石滬 (immerged)
This recording is Stegastes fasciolatus (Ogilby, 1889) 藍紋高身雀鯛 making territorial sounds against other fishes (and the swimmer). These knocking sounds were loud enough to be heard by the ear.

GPS = approx 23.785479, 119.599200
DEPTH ＝ 1 meter
DATE/TIME = 04.05.2017 11:00
EQUIPMENT = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2aXLR

170503 Mudou Island 目斗嶼 Stegastes fasciolatus

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Qimei Island 七美島, Penghu 澎湖

A group of damselfishes Stegastes albifasciatus (Schlegel & Müller, 1839) 白帶高身雀鯛, fighting and swimming around producing knocking and purring sounds, loud enough to be heard by the ear.

GPS = approx 23.206258, 119.416714
DEPTH ＝ 1 meter
DATE/TIME = 17.05.2017 10:40
EQUIPMENT = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2aXLR

170505 Qimei 七美 Stegastes albifasciatus

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Listening back to the sounds recorded at Sai Gong Da 布萊克岩, I realized that a sounds I heard under the water wasn't the other divers as I initially thought, but some unidentified lobster ! Those sounds are usually produce to deter predators. 
Check this website for more information : https://pateklab.biology.duke.edu/sound-sea-spiny-lobsters

Location = Sai Gong Da / Black Rock islet 布萊克岩
Date = 03.05.2017
Time = 14:00
Habitat : partly rocks, partly sand and corals.
Depth = Around 5 meters deep
GPS = approx. 23.580314, 119.539948
Equipment = Zoom H5 + Aquarian Audio H2a-XLR

170503 Sai Gong Da 布萊克岩 Lobster

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Underwater Recording
Equipment = AUSOMS mini (autonomous recorder with built-in hydrophone)
Date/Time = from 11.05.2017 10:20 to 13.05.2017 07:15 
GPS = around 23.513311, 119.610119
Habitat = coral reef
Note = Autonomous recorder running during two days. Settled a middle tide around 3-4m below the surface, about 60cm above the seafloor. This audiofile presents three extracts: 
A. recorded at 11.05.2017 15:35, rather quiet activity of snapping shrimps and unidentified fish
B. recorded at 11.05.2017 17:10, unusual high activity of fishes (this peak of activity was about 6-7 minutes long)
C. recorded at 12.05.2017 16:45, unusual high activity of snapping shrimps (this peak of activity was about one hours long)

170511 Suogang 鎖港 Long Recording

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Underwater Recording
Equipment = AUSOMS mini (autonomous recorder with built-in hydrophone)
Date/Time = from 05.07.2017 15:15 to 06.07.2017 15:22
GPS = 23.606061, 119.522958
Habitat = regrowing corals area
Note = Autonomous recorder running during 24h. Settled in the middle of a small area where corals are being reintroduced in the hope of rebuilding a coral reef. The corals (Acropora) are still quite small, the water is very blurred with lot of suspension because of local fish farming industry.  Fauna seems quite sparse, but still snapping shrimps can be heard, and this unusual and unidentified quak-quak-quak sound... This extract was recorded at 19:46.

170705 Erkan 二崁 (long recording)

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Underwater Recording
Equipment = AUSOMS mini (autonomous recorder with built-in hydrophone)
Date/Time = from 09.07.2017 12:30 to 10.07.2017 12:30
GPS = 23.515714, 119.572440
Habitat = coral reef
Note = Autonomous recorder running during 24h. This extract recorded around 12:00 features snapping shrimps (of course), damselfishes and other unidentified fishes sounds (check around .

170709 Jingan 井垵 (long recording)

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby

Suogang, 6AM
Recording device was set during 24 hours. Very intense activity of fishes at 4AM then when the Damselfishes calmed down a bit, some unidentified fishes produced these low frequency sounds.

GPS = approx 23.515352, 119.608666
DEPTH ＝ 4 meter
DATE/TIME = 30.05.2018 05:00
EQUIPMENT = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2c with USB battery in underwater enclosure

180530 Suogang - extract

Unknown invertebrate munching acacia wood

Taiwanese Grey Shrew 台灣灰麝鼩 (Crocidura attenuata tanakae)
Note : still not sure of the identification, need to confirm. 

Found two of the little ones (babies) in my compost.. Rescued them, brought them to the studio, recorded their calls, slowed down (3 octaves) and released.

200222 Taiwanese Grey Shrew 台灣灰麝鼩

小雨蛙 Microhyla ornata (Dumeril and Bibron, 1841)
Huge density of this tiny frog chorusing like hell around a little pond in a little forest, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Also present, the 斑腿樹蛙 Polypedates megacephalus (Hallowell, 1861) invasive species in Taiwan.
The site is located near little factories and roads, the background noise hasn't been filtered.
Recorded with two Sennheiser MKH40 and Zaxcom Maxx.
20/03/2020

200320 Microhyla ornata - Taoyuan

Unusual call by a Red and white giant flying squirrel (Petaurista alborufus lena) which looked a bit upset by my presence...
30/03/2020 Makauy Ecological Park, Yilan, Taiwan
(illustration : Frank E. Beddard - The Cambridge Natural History, Volume X—Mammalia.)

200330 Petaurista alborufus lena

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby 澎葉生

Underwater Recording
Equipment = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2c with USB battery in underwater enclosure
Date/Time = from 25.07.2020 12:03 to 26.07.2020 15:42
GPS = 23.515714, 119.572440
Habitat = coral reef
Note = Autonomous recorder running during 24h. These two extracts recorded on 26.07.2020 around 03:58 and 08:23 in the early morning features snapping shrimps (of course), damselfishes and other unidentified fishes sounds.

200726 Jingan Two Extracts

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net
by Yannick Dauby 澎葉生

Underwater Recording
Equipment = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2c with USB battery in underwater enclosure
Date/Time = from 25.07.2020 12:03 to 26.07.2020 15:42
GPS = 23.515714, 119.572440
Habitat = coral reef
Note = Autonomous recorder running during 24h. This extract was recorded on 25.07.2020 around 12:06 it features snapping shrimps (of course) and damselfishes and in the lower frequency (50-90Hz) a drumming sound that is probably the stressed warning call of Pomacanthus Semicirculatus (Semicircle angelfish). It was observed (and disturbed, sorry) when deploying the recorder and was swimming around. To be confirmed

200725 - Pomacanthus Semicirculatus

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net/pess
by Yannick Dauby 澎葉生

Underwater Recording in Suogang 鎖港
Equipment = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2c with USB battery in underwater enclosure
Date/Time = from 27.07.2020 15:13 to 28.07.2020 15:17
GPS = 23.513582, 119.608597
Habitat = coral reef
Note = Autonomous recorder running during 24h. This extract was recorded on 27.07.2020 around 18:08. Unknown fish repetitively calling.

200727 Suogang 鎖港 extract

Yannick Dauby 澎葉生 - field recordist, sound artist, sound designer - France/Taiwan

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