Hill Forest (~1100m): Emperor Bird of Paradise, with Cicadabird and Growling Riflebird

Cloudforest (~2800m): Dusk cicada chorus, with Papuan Woodcock dusk flight calls

Cloudforest (~2800m): Greater Ground Robin

we currently have the Channel Billed Cuckoos frequenting our place at the moment. I call them Pterodactyl birds and am rather eager for them to embark on their return journey.

What's making that machine like escalating siren sound?

Ночь

The Swedish composer Kajsa Lindgren explores the catalogue of LA-based label Recital Program along with tracks from her own newest release on the label, Momentary Harmony, as well as tracks of inspirational artist and more.

more infos and tracklist at www.lyl.live

Kajsa Lindgren (04/06/21)

I placed the microphones a few metres from a small stream in upland rainforest and left them to capture the dawn chorus. You can hear the raucous calls of Orange-footed Scrubfowl (one of Australia's three species of megapode or mound-builder) as well as the unusual wails of Spotted Catbird. Occasionally Northern Barred Frogs (Mixophyes schevilli)call from the leaf litter.

Dawn at Lumholtz Lodge

Dawn at Lumholtz Lodge, Atherton Tablelands, Australia

CHROMA

The sound of soft rain in the rainforest at dawn is bliss. The soundscape is comforting, relaxing, reassuring. It's the perfect ambience for slowing down and immersing yourself into the jungle landscape. Long version at https://youtu.be/5Uk22dxfJJY

Rainy dawn in Costa Rica's rainforest

Bajascillators

Geomancy

Tracklist

01. Danny Clay - 02 12.21.2022
02. Federico Durand - Música para Manuel I
03. Tom Leclerc - Perpetual
04. Francesco Covarino - Nido i
05. Ian Hawgood - Maps
06. Halftribe - Glimmer
07. Jeannine Schulz - gm
08. Michael Scott Dawson - Mineral Rights
09. Olli Aarni - Huoneen Yllä

314. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Midnight With A Visitor & Coyotes

Forest At Night - Crickets Owls Rain Wind In Trees - Nature Sounds To Relax Stud

part 2 from the Isotope Cobalt series.
there will be 6 parts of around 2 hours of ambient music. I will post them gradually the coming weeks. When they are all done, i will glue the 6 mixes together for 1 massive megamix. 

photo by Mark Thomas
typo and edit by Moicflo

timestamped here : https://www.mixcloud.com/rfunck/roel-funcken_isotope-cobalt-part-2/

01-Impeccable (She Likes Tulips)-Omrr-Music For The Anxious
02-Wim Hoffman-Kettel-Volleyed Iron
03-Thaw-Western Skies Motel-Buried and Resurfaced
04-Static Kings-Fennesz-Bécs
05-Boira-Monadh-Muara
06-Music Of The Air-Tim Hecker-Love Streams
07-Grief and Repetition-Oneohtrix Point Never-Russian Mind
08-The Hall-Deaf Center-Pale Ravine (Bonus Edition)
09-Ripples in a Water Scene-Lubomyr Melnyk-Rivers and Streams
10-Junk Life Project-Tsone-Dovetail
11-All is Gone-Arash Akbari-Cracked Echoes
12-Sirius of Procyon-Legiac-The Voynich Manuscript
13-Diffused-Solo Andata-In The Lens
14-Keeping Guard-Christopher Bissonnette-Pitch, Paper & Foil
15-414-GLobal Communication-Dedicated
16-The Water Awaits You-Siavash Amini-Subsiding
17-Forest-Deaf Center-Pale Ravine (Bonus Edition)
18-Envol-Ocoeur-Light As A Feather
19—Back and Forth-Nonkeen—Oddments of the Gamble
20Depart-Jason Van Wyk-Attachment
21-A Beacon, Peace And A Steambath-David Andree + Josh Mason-Call, Response
22-Azure-Greg Haines-Digressions
23-Aware-Jonathan Kawchuk-North
24-Man And The Cosmos Around-Strië-Struktura
25-Midsleep-Moss Covered Technology-Speicherbank

Roel Funcken_Isotope Cobalt part 2

This is an edit of recordings from the highland rainforests of the Huon Peninsula in Papua New Guinea.

These recordings were made during a recent trip to PNG with several colleagues from the Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group. This edit contains some highlights from the four weeks we spent trekking and recording in the mountain forests above 2000m. 

In the near future I'll be making these recordings available in full, but for now, this is some of what we encountered.

Huon Peninsula Soundscape

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Soundscape : Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

Listen to the natural shift from night to dawn in immersive binaural audio.  Recordings by Gordon McGladdery (http://ashellinthepit.com). 

Refugio Amazonas Night to Dawn

Listen to the natural shift from dusk to night at Refugio Amazonas.  Recorded by Gordon McGladdery (http://ashellinthepit.com)

Refugio Amazonas Dusk to Night

Comparison of nature soundscape microphone arrays by Andrew Skeoch and Doug Quin. 

4 microphone rigs were set up side by side, all axis aligned: MS (DQ), SASS (AS), Soundfield SP200 Ambisonic (DQ) and Iso-binaural (AS). 

All recording onto Sound Devices 7 series recorders at 24bit, DQ at 48kHz, AS at 44.1kHz. DQ's raw levels were quite low. The MS rig was close to the ground (see pic)

MS: Sennheiser MKH 30 + MKH 40 in Røde blimp
SASS: pair Sennheiser MKH 20s in Crown SASS head
Ambisonic: Soundfield SP200 Ambisonic, upright in Røde blimp
Iso-Binaural: Pair Sennheiser MKH 8020s, ~20cm apart, oriented 180º with convex baffles 

Location: Wet sclerophyll forest in small gully, Lower Gellibrand River, Otway Ranges, Vic. 18th February, approx 7am (post dawn chorus)

The ambisonic microphone can be rendered into almost any configuration, using Harpex proprietary software. DQ created several different renders as examples of what it can do. Screen shots of the software settings for reference. The MS rig has been decoded to stereo wide. 

In preparing edits,  DQ's files were down-sampled to 44.1 and everything to 16bit. Levels are subjective; all files have been normalised referencing the noise floor. This means some of the ‘noisier’ mics have been attenuated slightly to balance, thus reducing peak birdsong levels.

Nature Soundscape Microphone Comparison

Ambi ORTF

~ Deep Breakfast 080 by Francis M. Gri (https://soundcloud.com/user-884126976) https://soundcloud.com/krysalisound Showcase ~

Tracklist:
01. Pawel Pruski - In The Evening [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/between]
02. Ishmael Cormack - Ammil [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/ammil]
03. Tropic Of Coldness - Maps Of Reason [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/maps-of-reason]
04. Francis M. Gri - Counting Leaves [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/fall-and-flares]
05. Nāda Mushin - Ki [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/mono-no-aware]
06. James A. McDermid - Faraway To Close [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/tonal-glints]
07. LYEF - Iron Trees [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/introspections]
08. Andrea Laudante - Yugen [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/banat-banat-ban-jai]
09. DR - IV [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/field-recording-meets-sound]
10. Federico Mosconi - Il Tempo Regalato [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/colonne-di-fumo]
11. øjeRum - Tonerum [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/there-is-a-flaw-in-my-iris]
12. Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Autumn Blanket [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/last-goodbye]
13. klās’tĭk - Delle Marianne [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/nights-highest-noon]
14. Sascha Rosemarie Höfer - Prolog Der Wahrnehmung, AT&T [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/bar-do]
15. Robbie Elizee - Tweaked At The Rend Cabaret [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/cull-machine-choir]
14. Flow Control - Emergence (Excerpt) [https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/ephemeral]

Have a good listening.

Photo credit: Annie Spratt

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Deep Breakfast 080 - Francis M. Gri (KrysaliSound Showcase)

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Established 25 years ago by nature field recordist Andrew Skeoch and photographer Sarah Koschak, it is their passion to share the beautiful, unique and often fragile soundscapes of our living planet. 

"We hope listening will remind you of life in balance, and transport you to wild and often remote places."

Soundscape : Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

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