A long soundscape across Dawn in the Queets River Valley rainforest of the Olympic National Park. Starting in Astronomical Twilight, a small herd of Roosevelt Elk walks in from a distance, though a small forest glade, an away towards the Queets River bed.

Early Autumn rainfall and dropping Maple Leaves are the dominant sounds to begin, their pak-pak-spaks are a reminder that time passes, even in the still quiet of a moss-covered forest.

Highway 101 in less than 12 miles away, and distant traffic is funneled up the Valley, showing the difficulty of escaping human-generated sound. This has been mitigated somewhat with light processing, but close listening and inspection will make remnants evident. There are no other edits or processes committed.

I love the crisp cold air of the rainforests in the fall. Sounds, natural and human generated, carry into the distant. Tucked into my sleeping bag, I lay back in my small tent, listening to the forest awaken. Where once there was just the soft distant wash of the river, the elk are joined by the local birds. Steller's Jays shriek their song with grating-yet-amusing "CHA-CHA-CHA-CHAs". A Northern Saw-whet toots in the forest canopy. Young Varied Thrush practice their songs, not quite reaching the beautiful and haunting signature fluting of their predecessors, instead emitting a silly buzzer-bell-like noise. Pacific Wren singing at the end of their season and the occasional Kingfisher make an appearance as well. Noe of these complete with the sheer vibrance of the elk.

Roosevelt Elk or Roosevelt's Wapiti or Rainforest Elk are the largest remaining elk species in North America and thrive in shadowy silences of the Pacific Northwest's temperate rainforests. Bull's bugles and roars echo through the trees, becoming one of the signature sounds of the Olympic Mountains. The cows mew and squeal in return, listening for one another to not wander far astray.

The small herd is a tight-nit family group, a with one, maybe two, dominant bulls, five or six cows in their harem, and a handful of young. The dominant bull leads the group on a daily hike, down from the upper valley to the river and back again. Their bugles urge the group, both signaling the direction to go and scolding those that dawdle. As they pass through the glade, their heavy footfall on the vegetative floor thump-thump-thumps their presence as much as the vocalizations and the continued crushing of vegetation as they push by.

I can't get enough of their energy. They pull back frequently. No matter how many times I encounter them, Elk never cease to awe me.

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Queets River Valley Rainforest Dawn with Roosevelt Elk

From April 23, 2023, I decided to use the AI-ART registered on #Artstation, which I create using image generation AI every day, as my daily cover art instead of the female art created by image generation AI. . I hope you all enjoy it.

Today's music video with beautiful goddess with her face animations by Stable Diffusion, AI here.. 
https://youtu.be/51uTbOl4uxM
and today's short video here..
https://youtube.com/shorts/piTXAnrVDz0?feature=share

#3411: Apr. 27, 2023: A little space for the rose-breath to fill ("The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats") 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536 and 3421(75.4%) achieved today. Find my project.. : )
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

Today's cover ART is created by #Midjourney (Art Generating #AI), according to my wish. Happy if you like it.

I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.

######## NEW 23rd SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Golden Light" - the 23rd selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

Youtube: Full(20 songs, 50 minutes) and Free 4K Video with Super Beautiful Motion Graphics of Artgrid
https://youtu.be/3Gc813k8eec

Youtube: Digest of "Golden Light" music video. 12 minutes in 4K
https://youtu.be/GB7oBTB0yOo

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/6kJ3Xoy0jSjx1AmUNyKu6T

apple music
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/golden-light-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-volume-23/1662304120

amazon music
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BRJ258Z7?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=tcjaz-22&linkCode=ur2&camp=247&creative=1211

Line Music
https://music.line.me/webapp/album/mb0000000002b2e80a

AWA
https://s.awa.fm/album/948948aecf74cfc9ee19

Other Every music streaming services in the world
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A Little Space For The Rose - Breath To Fill - #3421 By Chair House 230427

On Episode 286, former NASA chief historian discusses his new e-book that shares some of the most significant moments and programs from NASA’s entire history.

Houston We Have a Podcast: The Entire History of NASA

NASA Research Electrical Engineer Lyndsey McMillon-Brown discusses development of perovskite solar cell technology for Moon and Mars exploration.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps Podcast

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 107: Perovskite Solar Cells

On Episode 287, A NASA expert details an upcoming space station study conducted during a spacewalk to better understand potential contaminants for future human exploration of the Moon and Mars.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Science in a Spacesuit

On Episode 288, Artemis II lead flight directors walk us through what was learned from Artemis I and what we are doing right now in Mission Control to prepare for Artemis II and beyond.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Evolving Artemis Mission Operations

On Episode 289, the Principal Investigator for NASA’s Lucy mission discusses the spacecraft’s 12-year journey to eight different asteroids as we look to better understand the formation of our solar system.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Lucy

Piano, sad, contemporary, classic, thoughtful

IpadSeries#1 - May

This track features the haunting vocalizations of the Common Loon. The ambient "roar" you'll hear is the sound of gentle night breezes swishing through the treetops of large Red Pines nearby. (One critical listener calls this element "sublime.") Recorded late May, 2008. Skies were mostly clear; winds were light and variable; temp. was in the low 50s (F).

Midnight Loons - Wagner Lake

Hello, we’re NASA. You may have seen our astronauts, rocket launches, or Mars rovers — but have you heard our sounds? From interviews with astronauts and engineers to stories that take you on a tour of the galaxy, NASA’s audio offerings let you experience the thrill of space exploration without ever leaving Earth.