Mr Toad is trying out his best vocalizations to attract a nearby female. Hope he succeeded. Actually it looked like an orgy in there so I think he's happy.

Mr. Toad

A recording of the song of the glacier. Using a LOM Geofón and a Aquarian H2a-XLR hydrophone I was able to capture the internal sounds of the Austerdalsbreen glacier. Geofón is picking up the rumble and the thuds whilst the hydrophone is in a smal pond with running water. The pops and gargles is from air venting from the ice.

Austerdalsbreen G+H

This recording was done with a LOM Geofón at Tystigbreen glacier in Stryn, Norway. I simply buried the Geofón in the snow hoping for the best. Turned out to be a great recording, although I had to push the gain quite a bit in post. In the beginning there’s a snowcat passing 300 meters away, and towards the end an airplane can be heard. These are reference sounds I left in the recording. Quite a lot of thuds from the moving glacier is heard during the recording.

Tystigbreen glacier

Drops dripping from the pier on the picture after rainfall. Captured with two hydrophones, but still the sound of a crow and someone talking can be heard. Also some sea creatures is interested. 

Aquarian Audio H2a-XLR hydrophone, Sound Devices MixPre 10 II recorder.

Dripping

Thunder passing over my hometown. Some of the thunderclaps is quite impressive. The map is from the met office and shows the proximity of the lightnings. The faint chirps during the first rolling thunder I believe is otter kids.

Thunder

This is just a raw file of some cargo vessels passing in the inner shipping lane along the Norwegian coast.

Aquarian Audio H2A_XLR hydrophone
Sound Devices MixPre 10 II recorder

Cargo Vessels From Afar

Recorded a storm inside the cabin to the left on the picture. Did not bring heavy recording equipment to record outside. Some metal is making a noise, but the sound of the wind comes through quite nicely.

Microphones: DPA 4060
Pre-amp: DPA MMA-A
Recorder: iPhone 13 Pro with Harmonicdog MultiTrack DAW

Storm In A Cabin By The Glacier

Geneva Airport soundwalk.

Microphones DPA 4060
Preamp DPA MMA-A
Recorder iPhone

Geneva AirPort

Had to record one of our urban deers. This stag is about 50m from the path. You can hear people walking on the path and children playing at a school 4-500m away. The noise from the small town of Florø in the background strengthen the urban feeling.

Urban Deer

In this narrow sound, where a river runs out in a fjord, the underwater soundscape is especially vibrant.

Different species of fish and crustaceans thrive in the streaming waters that bring a lot of food and nutrients. Some of the species in this recording are wrasse, cod, brown crab (Cancer pagurus).

Here, innermost in a fjord I was lucky to capture this soundscape without any anthropogenic sounds present. As sound travel faster and longer distance in water, a small boat miles away could permeate a recording.

Hydrophones: Aquarian H2A-XLR
Recorder: Zoom F3

Osstrupen

Captured the sound of a river warbler outside my house. Rare visitor around here, so I'm happy that I got it despite the suburban noise in the background. Several other birds around like common tern, black bird, willow warbler.
Picture: wikimedia common

Edit: This posting was mistakenly about a grasshopper warbler earlier.

River Warbler

A stag is passing by in the woods of Svanøya island in Norway. I think the hinds is being chased as you can hear some movement before the stag is entering the scene. The strongest rut is in the middle of the recording and luckily it does not distort my recording. 

Sony PCM D50
LOM Microusi

Deer Passing.WAV

My favorite recording location did not disappoint this evening in early march. I have heard about cod drumming, and suspect that this is it. However I wasn't prepared for this intense sound of several individual species making noise at the same time. 

There are some anthropophony in this recording. Mainly noise from small vessels, but some faint sounds from cars passing over a bridge 600 meters to the east.

Hydrophones - Aquarian H2AXLR
Recorder - Zoom F3

Intense sound from the deep

A few common frogs mating in the forest. Early in the season here in Norway and night temperature is still below zero. 

Sennheiser MKH 8040 microphones
Rycote Nano wind protection
Zoom F3 field recorder

Frogs

A rural recording of common eider visiting some common terns. In addition: common gull, willow warbler, redwing, eurasian blackbird.

Sennheiser 8040 and 8030 in MS
Sound Devices MixPre 10 II
Some noise reduction in Izotope RX

Eider

First recording in Redalsvika in Førdefjorden.

Redalsvika.WAV

A lone wolf starting to howl and the whole pack joins in. These beautiful poignant sounds are rare even in Norway despite all its wild nature. Humbled to be close to these magnificent animals and listen to the ancient rituals. This pack consist of three adults and five to six half grown pups. If you listen closely you can hear the different voices.

LOM BasicUcho microphones
Zoom F6 recorder

Wolves howling

The old boreonemoral rain forest in Norway has a rich diversity of wildlife. Mainly moss, lichen, insects and other species that thrives in the humid oceanic climate. These woods are also home for a variety of birds. In this recording a tawny owl is calling and coming closer to the microphones. Waterfalls in the background, a lot of birds around, some sheep far away in the back.

Tawny Owl

Something was lurking around my microphones. Maybe a black grouse.

Something Lurking (binaural)

Probably the same tawny owl (kattugle) as the other recording. This recording was done during the afternoon and with my ambisonic mic.

Tawny Owl Binaural

A boat passes my hydrophones as I was recording in the harbour of Florø. Illustrates the noise pollution we are responsible for under water.

Boat Passing Underwater

Internal sounds of a wind turbine. Powering up and down, change gear or activate turbine. I don't know what is happening, but the sounds are stunning and as you can see I use the LOM Geofón.

Kjetil

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