Hi, nice recording. I just got my pair of Primo em172 capsules ant try today build a microphones of these :)

Wonderful recording; the familiar becomes strange in this ensemble

Wow, those Primo microphones are good, they give nice clear results.

!very good. wish it lasted an hour or more.

2023.05.19 Microbat Nocturne. Mallee Country. Late Autumn.

SenSen - The Organist

Haven't used my iProgram Card with my Buchla Easel for quite awhile. Popped it in this morning and re-discovered this patch I had made years ago. Enjoy!

Aleatoric Ambience

Two rigs simultaneously recording the same dawn within the same landscape, located about half a kilometre apart. The beautiful calls of a Pied Butcherbird can be heard from each location. Its first two sequences of calls are nearer to the first location (Perspective 1), in the background of a flurry of foreground bird activity. Its third sequence of calls are very near to the second location (Perspective 2), within a rather different soundscape mood. But all three sequences are heard from both locations, either as distant or as near.

Recorded respectfully on the land of the Meru and Danggali peoples.

Related playlist: https://soundcloud.com/frgtests/sets/lewitt-double-nos-examples

2023.10.29 Mallee Dawn in Spring with Pied Butcherbird: Perspective 2

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Night Listening means sitting, through the night, in a chosen location, as still and quiet as possible, often for many hours, absorbed in purely listening, while recording. This is an excerpt from a recent Night Listening. It involves three Brushtail Possums, and one Red Fox. The responses of the Possums to the barking of the Fox are very interesting. (Don't start with the volume raised to more than 50 to 60 per cent: some of the fox barks are quite close and loud.)

Recorded on the land of the Kaurna people.

2023.12.28 Night Listening. Night Forest. Red Fox and Brushtail Possums. Early Summer.

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

I got to spend December 2023 recording in several jungle locations in Costa Rica. The experience was wonderful and inspiring. Most of the trip was spent on Osa Peninsula, in lodges that bordered Parque Nacional Corcovado (Corcovado National Park). With nearly 2.5% of the world's species represented, many of them endemic, it is  recognized as one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet.

On the same morning as the previous  Midnight Chorus recording https://soundcloud.com/soundeziner/cr-fincasueno-midnightchorus, a troop of Golden Mantled Howler Monkeys greeted the Dawn and their neighbors (and the rest of the jungle) the only way they know how. Male mantled howlers have an enlarged hyoid bone, a hollow amplifying bone near their vocal cords that gives the ability to generate great "howling"  calls that can heard for kilometers.  Howling allows the monkeys to exercise territory and remain in contact  without expending energy through movement or bearing the risks of physical confrontation. As someone who likes little more than sitting in a forest listening to nature speak, I approve of this lazing behavior.

While this howling is their most well-known vocal characteristic, I'm rather fond of the popping and grunting that warms up to the howl and pads the time in between. It's relatively quiet, and is most noticeable only when near the vocalizing howler. The best description of it that I can think of is like the "vocal fry" not uncommon in many of today's pop singers. Check it out near the start of the first round of howling around 2:40 (link in the comments)

After a first round of loud howls, the group takes a break. With what is known about Mantled Howler activity, they're likely sleeping, or maybe eating. After 20-is minutes, they pick up again for a brief session before settling back down. It's possible they've been moving during this time as they're quieter during this round. Finally, just before Sunrise at 05:38 in the morning, they pick up again, slowly building and then tapering off after nearly 30 minutes of vocal exercising.

After speaking with other recordists, I know I am far from alone as someone who loves their sound, but I I may be one of the few that enjoys waking up to their calls. Every morning I heard this in the distance or nearby was a morning I walked out to breakfast with a big silly grin on my face.

Another voice that has become a personal favorite is the Yellow-throated Toucan, with their rhythmic, bouncing song that seems to carry on forever. There is at least one singing for most of this recording, but you can get your first good listen behind the Howlers at 53:27 or skip ahead to 1:06:02 to hear two singing at each other.

Hummingbirds are abundant, and you'll hear their buzzing wings fly by and around the microphones numerous times. Also coming and going are raucous and noisy Scarlet Macaws and Red-lored Parrots, a lone Red-eyed Tree Frog, a visiting Little Tinamou, and more. 

I'll point out a few voices along the way in the comments, but I'm out of my depth when it comes to identifying neotropical birds, so I'll largely let the ecosystem speak for itself. Feel free to poke around with links in the comments to scoot around the recording, or just let it play out over your morning coffee like I do.

Feel like seeing some fancy colors? I've been playing at visualizing soundscapes lately. Check out the video for this recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/duxU2INkyXI?si=xhIrgiHiOSOk922l

AMNS Costa Rica 01

Golden Mantled Howlers at Dawn

A excerpt from a longer dusk recording made from around 20:00-21:00 on April 12th, 2016. In this section we can hear a dense mix of frogs, a common snipe, a beaver chewing a tree and several other bird species. The environment was a small swamp that borders a larger forest in southeast Estonia. Unfortunately a car and a plane came in the middle of this section but I think its worth sharing. Recorded with a pair of homemade mics with 'Primo EM172' capsules and a Sony PCM-D50.

frogs, snipe, hungry beaver and more

MS-20

MS-20 - alone in the dream

Short stories about being invisible and disappearing. Tried to call out ghosts while recording. Listen one by one. These stories tell one story. Enjoy the trip!

Underwater Funeral

Researching, composing and performing with sound for over 20 years using methods of field recording, kinetic sculptures, electro-acoustic creation, filmmaking, improvisation, group workshops and exercises in listening. Based in Estonia and work as a program and technical coordinator for MoKS, a non-profit artist-run center. My compositions have been published on international labels such as: and/OAR, SIRR, Mystery Sea, Staalplaat, Semperflorens, Erewhon, Intransitive, Cut, Elevator Bath, CMR, Orogenetics, Pale Disc and others.

frogs, snipe, hungry beaver and more

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