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During a mid-March visit to Big Bend National Park in Texas, I recorded this immersive binaural soundscape at dawn in Santa Elena Canyon. It features wind blowing through a dense thicket of Carrizo Cane (an invasive species from Asia that is now common along the Rio Grande), which produces clicks and clatters as gusts pass through the stiff, bamboo-like reeds. Ravens nest in the canyon and croak repeatedly as they fly up and down the Rio Grande River, their calls echoing off the steep cliffs above. Such a pleasing, enveloping mix of the sounds of the wind, ravens and reeds!. Please wear headphones for optimal immersion!

Recorded by Lang Elliott on March 17, 2021 shortly before sunrise. © Lang Elliott, All Rights Reserved.

Wind, Ravens, Reeds

Enjoy this engaging binaural recording featuring the variable plops and splats of water dripping from a bluff and landing on wet stones and in shallow pools. Listen also for the occasional musical trills of Eastern Screech-Owls. 

The "Grotto" is a limestone overhang found along a tributary of the Sabinal river in Lost Maples State Natural Area, located in the Hill Country of Texas. Please wear headphones! Recorded April 19, 2021 at around 11pm. © Lang Elliott. All Rights Reserved.

Grotto Drip 2021

Enjoy this lovely late winter dawn chorus recorded around 7am on March 30, 2022, in Shindagin Hollow, near Brooktondale NY. Various birds sound off against a backdrop of the gurgle of water flowing over beaver dams. Species heard include Blue Jay, Song Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, Hairy Woodpecker, Mallard, and American Crow (and perhaps more that I didn't notice?). Temperature was around 28F with no wind.

© Lang Elliott, musicofnature.org

The Leading Edge of Spring

An introductory message from Lang Elliott. Recorded live at 4pm, November 12, next to a small waterfall in the forested hills of upstate New York. 

Listen as Lang speaks off-the-cuff about what he's up to these days, including why he records binaurally and what his plans are for his SoundCloud channel.

Details about Lang's Soundscape Microphone:

I use a Crown SASS (Stereo Ambient Sampling System) that has been modified for use with Sennheiser MKH20 microphones. This setup is not commercially available, the stock SASS being discontinued. However, a number of nature recordists have posted information about homemade versions. Perhaps the most informative description of various SASS-alternatives is available on nature recordist Vicki Powys's website:

http://www.caperteebirder.com
(check out her "Recording Nature" tab

A Message from Lang

This is the introductory trailer for Lang Elliott's forthcoming Music of Nature Podcast Series.

Introducing The Music of Nature Podcast

Lang's first audio postcard (podcast) from his 2017 Nature Soundscape Recording Expedition. Featuring recordings from the coastal marshes of Louisiana made from February 26 through 28.

Lacassine Pool Podcast

An audio podcast commemorating my early March visit to the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Features the voices of Common Pauraque, Chachalaca, Green Jay, Great Kiskadee, Eastern Screech-Owl, Long-billed Thrasher, Golden-fronted Woodpecker, and more!

Pauraques On My Mind – Podcast

"The Voices of Lost Maples" podcast documents my early March visit (with my field assistant Beth Bannister) to Lost Maples State Natural Area in the Hill Country of Texas, about 80 miles northwest of San Antonio. Features Barking Frogs, Great-Horned Owl, White-tailed Deer, Eastern Phoebe, Carolina Chickadee, Canyon Wren, White-tipped Dove ... and more!

Music of Nature Podcast Series

The Voices of Lost Maples - Podcast

"Big Bend Sound Delights" is a 21-minute audio podcast commemorating my early to mid March visit to Big Bend National Park in Texas. Along with bees buzzing, great insect choruses, and the gurgling of the Rio Grande, enjoy the songs of Canyon Wren, Cactus Wren, Mexican Jay, White-tipped Dove, Greater Roadrunner, Great-Horned Owl, Elf Owl, Western Screech-Owl, and more!

© 2017, Lang Elliott, musicofnature.com

Big Bend Sound Delights - Podcast

A Coqui chorus from Puerto Rico, recorded next to a small forest stream. Early am, 22 March 2013. El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico. An immersive binaural soundscape recording ... please listen using headphones.

NOTE: This is one of a series of recordings I made during the night of March 21-22, as I hiked up the south slopes of El Yunque National Forest in the dead of the night. At first I was overwhelmed by the choruses ... they were much too cacophonous to suit my fancy. But at higher altitudes in the wee hours of the morning, things settled down and I got some very nice mixtures of sounds ... magical and hypnotic soundscapes that soothed my mind and drew me effortlessly and completely into my natural surroundings, erasing any thoughts of the outside world.

Coqui Frogs — Forest Stream

The arrival of a thunderstorm at the edge of a meadow in upstate New York. A light rain falls and thunder rumbles as the storm moves by. Two Snowy Tree Crickets call from nearby shrubs, their repeated trills given in almost perfect unison. How relaxing, but beware … this soundscape may put you right to sleep.

Recorded binaurally at 11pm, 21 September, 2011. Connecticut Hill Wildlife Mangement Area near Ithaca, New York.

Thunder Crickets

Hi Friends! I am a professional nature recordist who travels to wild areas throughout North America and sometimes beyond. My current focus is to gather  immersive binaural 3D soundscapes that effortlessly transport listeners (using headphones) into nature and have a positive and healing effect on the mind, body and spirit.

A Message from Lang

Lang Elliott – Music of Nature