https://ambientsketchbook.bandcamp.com/album/artificial-intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

African Jungle is a huge collection of unique ambiences recorded in Central Africa's Congo Basin rainforests. It features lush jungle soundscapes, loud insect choruses, elephants and other mammals calling and much more. Available at https://mindful-audio.com/african-jungle/.

Downloadable demo - all rights reserved. License agreement available at https://mindful-audio.com/eula

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MAFX017 African Jungle demo

You can hear also Greylag goose and Garganey.

200319 10:58 Black-Headed Gull

I've made a lot of recordings over the years, but during April 2020 it's just been off the chart.  I've created, edited, and titled more than 70 pieces just in April, and I know I might have another 15 or 20 waiting to be edited.

Because of my output, I release a lot of things under pseudonyms.  But I try to pick the best and release them under my name, Mark Rushton.

"Vivid Dreams" was made on April 5th, edited shortly thereafter, and put together with 11 other tracks to be released on the album The Edge of Distance on Bandcamp on April 14th and on all the other streamers on April 22nd.

Once an album hits the streamers, I always listen to it to make sure everything is OK with the files.  It was on that listen when Vivid Dreams really stood out.  I think it's one of the best pieces of music I've ever created.

I don't know how to describe this music:  Chihei Hatakeyama meets Harold Budd in a foggy cathedral?  That's pretty close, I think.  

Luckily, I have a place where I can go and work on everything with little distraction. 

More about me at:  https://markrushton.com

More on this 435th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report — The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0435/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

The Edge of Distance

Vivid Dreams

This field recording captures activity around the nesting location of a group of European Bee Eaters. The nests were located in the banks of the river Fiora. The mics and recorder were carefully placed and left to record over a long period so not to disturb the birds. In the background we can hear a Golden Oriole, Skylarks and European Blackcaps.

Recorded 04.08.2020
Sony PCM A10 + 2 x LOM mikroUsi

European Bee Eaters - Montalto Di Castro, Lazio, Italy

2083

Disquiet Junto Project 0455: Inner Invertebrate. The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?

I was doing another track, Andromeda Blossoming https://soundcloud.com/winterer/andromeda-blossoming-studio-version, which was originally not meant to be some kind of underwater track and which is made with the App Samplr on iPad with some of my own tracks plus some cc0 field recordings from freesounds. In this track, I more or less imaginated another evolution of 'the andromeda strain', one of my favourite sci fi movies, with its strange "unfolding" effect on the lab screens in the movie.

However, a lot of it's sound seemed to fit to this disquiet, so I removed anything un-jellyfishy and un-underwatery and did some new balancing of the components. This Cassiopea andromeda lives on the bottom of the sea and she looks up to the billowing world above her…

Image of a 'Cassiopea Andromeda' based on PD / CC0 photo by 'Vassil'
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassiopea_andromeda_K%C3%B6ln_zoo_31122014_1.jpg
Thanks!

More on this 455th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Inner Invertebrate (The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?), at:
https://disquiet.com/0455/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:
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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0455-inner-invertebrate/

Andromeda Blossoming (underwater remix) [disquiet0455]

Inside an old fishermans hut of corrugated steel by Makholma shore during a light gail with some rain. No birds, nothing else, a typical November day here.  

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, no processing, 24/48 flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Wind and Weather - 2/11/2020 - Fishermans Hut Makholma

Here is the preview of my latest 12-track album with field recordings of the Iberian Wolf and their surroundings in Picão, Portugal.
You can listen to the full tracks here: https://melissapons.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-soundscapes

If you'd like to purchase, 50% of the profit will go towards Grupo Lobo, a NGO that focuses on rehabilitating wolves that cannot go back to the wild.

I hope you enjoy this album!

buy on bandcamp

Wolf Soundscapes 06 Gerês

This is a recording of the first real snow storm of the year on December 15th 2020 in New England. The snow started at 6pm and I began this recording just before 7pm; we had already received about an inch of snow. 

The winds were high and I was excited to setup this recording rig to capture the sounds of the snow, wind and chimes.

To prepare the wind protection for this recording, I put bubblebee wind bubbles over the LS10 mic capsules, and then inserted the body into a DIY windscreen and tightened it down.

The wind protection did great for the average wind speeds (15mph), but the 20+ mph gusts were able to leak through. I actually like the effect of this and I find it sounds similar to fast winds in our own ears, so I chose to leave them in the final recording. This helped me to get this long, 13 minute clip.

I secured the LS10 to a metal wall hanging with a 4" bungee cord. In the past I have used electrical tape for this job but found it very wasteful and didn't like the sticky residue that it left on my gear. The bungee cord was a great success in this recording and I look forward to using them in the future!

If I could redo this recording, I would position the LS10 further below the wind chimes to get a better balance between chimes and wind. I find the chimes too overpowering in this recording.

To read more about field recording, please visit my website at www.acousticnature.com -- I post all kinds of field recording articles on my blog.

Thanks for listening ♫

Wind Chimes In A Blizzard | Winter Field Recording

This winter first ices come one week after years shift, which is nearly two months later than in gone days. After walking one mile along the shoreline of Loukkeennokka Reef, I found some lousy ice flakes quirking with one Whooper Swan calling in the background.

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/210109/

(Sennheiser KE4 capsules, MixPre 32/48, +3 dB in post, 24/48 flac)

First Ices - 9/1/2021 -  Loukkeennokka Shore

slow traveller nature field recordist

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