Library Demo: Okefenokee Swamp | Ambient Swamp Sounds

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Pink noise and kite flying

Cannon Beach, OR
2024-09-23

Chapman Beach 7:02pm

Purelink invites Millia & Eden Aurelius ahead of their Nowadays set in April 

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Purelink invites Millia b2b Eden Aurelius @ The Lot Radio 03-18-2025

A very, very gradually unfurling, utterly unhurried, dawn chorus, beginning from the very first faint bird calls of First Light (Crescent Honeyeaters) in a eucalypt forest near the north-western coast of Kangaroo Island. In various passages of the recording, the gentle, plaintive calls of Glossy Black Cockatoos (an endangered species) can be heard; also, occasionally, the loud, wailing calls of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos.

A continuous unedited recording. By human time, this extract from an overnight unattended recording, made on Thursday 10th April 2025 (five years after the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires), runs from 05:34 to 07:27.

Recommended listening: good quality headphones (preferably open-backed) with flat frequency response, or good quality monitors, at a low to mid volume.

Recorded mindfully and respectfully on land and water which, although not indigenously inhabited for some 4000 years, remains to this day of fundamental cultural, spiritual and historical importance to the indigenous mainland Ramindjeri, Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna, and Narangga peoples.

2025.04.10 From First Light. Wilderness Protection Area. Kangaroo Island.

grey heron morning stretches

Eleventh

Although my ideal is to make and share nature recordings free of anthropogenic machine noise, I'm not averse to sitting through first light and dawn in natural places that I know very well will be noise-polluted - simply because I want to hear (and record) dawn choruses in such places, even if I will never, or rarely, share such recordings publicly. At different places, and at different times, dawn choruses are always quite different. Despite intrusive and discordant noise, I still want to experience and to hear what the birds and other animals will say (express, manifest) in such places, and how that will sound in each such physically different space. I feel that I owe them the respect and the effort to set up my recording gear, settle down, and listen and record through the darkness into first light and dawn. I don't wish to avoid, ignore or spurn them just because they have no choice but to exist and to  live their lives in the midst of abrasive human noise. To the contrary, I feel it's deeply important to experience, acknowledge, and respect their lives, their lifeworld, the reality of their way of being, precisely because they are not fortunate enough to live freely and naturally, there where they are and must be. Before I leave, after sunrise, I always thank them, and apologise to them for what the species to which I belong has inflicted upon them (and upon itself), and pray for their future protection and well-being.

This, then, is one of those rare occasions when I have decided to post an excerpt from just such an attended dawn recording, mainly because I find it fascinating and informative, and amusing. To my mind, it provides yet more evidence that Blackbirds (which aren't native to Australia, but released here by English settlers) and native birds don't really get on very well. The conflict or competition is not physical or violent, but expressed through 'voice' and creativity. In this instance, the Blackbirds seem to be ousted and chased away by some extremely vocal and virtuosic Grey Shrike-thrushes. (I should point out that I don't think of what birds do with their 'voices' as 'song' or 'music'. I think that such a notion is merely a somewhat fanciful human interpretation and imposition.)

Another, lesser, reason for posting the excerpt is because it is another exploratory mid-side recording (with a super-cardioid mid mic), made in parallel with an ORTF recording (with a pair of cardioids), which hasn't been posted, here.

2025.11.12 Dawn at Cudlee Creek. Spring. (Excerpt. Mid-Side.)

Let’s give a warm welcome to Scottish producer Neil McDonald, known as Lord Of The Isles, one of our most cherished artists and a true master of his craft. This is his first appearance on Deep Breakfast, and he arrives with a fresh, unmistakable voice. Over the years, he has forged a singular sonic language that rises above the dance floor, drifting into subliminal rhythms, ambient textures and experimental realms. Gifted at weaving dynamic narratives, he summons powerful emotions and otherworldly visions. Lord Of The Isles possesses a rare ability to draw the listener into his own world, rather than guiding them through theirs…a beautiful place to linger.
"Signals Aligned", his fifth album and second release on his own imprint Dusk Delay, dropped recently and is simply gorgeous — check it out: https://lordoftheisles.bandcamp.com/album/signals-aligned

About the mix he said:
"This mix was inspired by those vivid morning dreams you have when you fall back to sleep when you should probably be awake. Full of strange twists and turns but somehow glued together by the same subconscious telling an abstract but deeply personal story."

Tracklist:
1. bvdub - Untitled 02
2. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - Ruach
3. Barker - The Remembering Self
4. Danny Wolfers - Cassette Filler
5. Bibio - The Way You Talk
6. Shorelights - Untitled
7. IRINI - Untitled
8. IRINI - I Feel It But Now It’s Gone
9. JP - tru (feat. Xiphiidae)
10. Burial - Strange Neighbourhood
11. Unknown - Unknown
12. February Montaine - Cosmicomics
13. Donato Dozzy - K3
14. Akashi Kokubu - A Dream Sails Out To Sea Scene 3: Breath Of Blue Water
15. Lord Of The Isles - Signals Aligned (Extended Version)
16. Ovid - Dream Sequence

Photo by Griffin Wooldridge

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Deep Breakfast 335 ~ Lord Of The Isles

Throbbing melancholy (it took us by surprise) from our December 20, 2024 jam session...
With David Christophe aka @david-lund-music on bass and vocals, Olivier Taskin aka @olitaski on drums and piano, Jann Dūne aka https://soundcloud.com/nina-sky-w-k-coeur on guitar and vocals, Frederic Aerden on processed field recordings, and https://soundcloud.com/antonindebemels on groovebox.

Drawing: Sandrine Nicaise

Silence (for your eyes)

Fourth experiment with the Buchla Music Easel, this time an ambient meditation.

Chapman Beach 7:02pm

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