Performed by Ensemble Fractales:
Renata Kambarova, flutes
Yuko Fukumae, clarinets
Gian Ponte, piano 
Marion Borgel, violin/viola
Merryl Havard, cello
Сommissioned by Centre Henri Pousseur
Premiered at Festival Images Sonores, La Boverie Liège

Alexander Khubeev -  Labyrinths of Glass Dreams (Ensemble Fractales) [2025]

GoAwayRain

On a recent trip to Ireland spent some time in Wicklow and explored Glendalough, a well known natural area close by. Although there was virtually no wind, it was raining a lot making recording conditions challenging. I arrived just as dawn was breaking and soon came across a robin singing high up in a tree.

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + Telinga Parabolic Mic
Recorded 13.10.18

Photo by David Mackie (Creative Commons license)

Robin Singing In The Rain - Glendalough, Wicklow, Ireland

VoxChoir PaulSchilling Demo

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

Bit of an oldie that I decided to fix up. Oldschool-Knivtid!

Hoppas att allt är bra

Fighting wild boars 40 seconds from beginning.
Recorded in Sweden with SoundDevices 702 and Telinga Stereo Parabolic.
Distance approx 150 meter.

Red Deer, Cervus élaphus, during mating season. Kronhjort

Moon Bumps (naviarhaiku354)

flehen

180515 19:03 Cuckoo

This is a compilation from an over night recording in Kirpakka woods with 15 small cracks in chronological order and as last a bigger bang from one long recording earlier in february.

I had the microphones out in Kirpakka small preservation area over night (from sunset to midday) during the coldest days when temp went down to -20C.  There was practically no sign of life except some road noise and machines from a nearby farm.  Daytime there were a few Crows and two Ravens, one Great Spotted Woodpecker and in early night the distant call of a Tengman's Owl.  

One recording of 18 hours earlier didn't result in any sound of life except a very weak Crow at 11 am. and the big crack in the end of this recording.

There seems to be a great loss of tits and crossbills in Finnish forests today.

But the trees were keeping a good amount of cracks and pops, specially in the early night when the temperature change was as fastest. 

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/210215/

(MKH8020ab80cm, MixPre 32>24/48, no processing, +3dB, flac)