Another sunset in the Waipoua Forest, Northland, New Zealand. This time featuring the wind in the pine trees. 

Location on google maps: http://goo.gl/QgGmwX

Waipoua Forest Wind

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From the Album, Kerikeri: Downunder 
available at http://naturesounds.co.nz

River

This starts off low so don't turn it up!
On my way to Wellington I stopped in overnight at Pureora and recorded the sounds of the forest from the 12m high tower. I'm not very good with heights so found it a bit of a mission to climb.. Once again, the calmness of the forest made recording  a challenge as the loudest Kaka calls were only around 35dBSPL and that is very quiet!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_pressure
http://tinyurl.com/pureora-forest-info

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Pureora Forest Tower June 2014

Of all my recordings at Whiritoa, this one reminds me the most of what it sounded like sitting on the deck of my friends beach house drinking a cool beer on a hot summers night..

Location on google maps: http://goo.gl/QgGmwX

Except from the single, Whiritoa Evening available at http://naturesounds.co.nz
Just to confirm: one mic, one location. This is a single "take" recording.

Whiritoa Evening

Sample album of New Zealand nature sounds.
Featuring:
Bellbird Morning, Mahurangi Waves, Omahuta Kauri Park, Post Office Bay, Puketi Stream, Tawharanui Rain, Te Henga Stream, West End Beach.

Locations on google maps: http://goo.gl/QgGmwX
Album available for purchase at http://naturesounds.co.nz
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Ngahere a Moana: Album Sample

Sunrise at Gillespies Lagoon, Fox Glacier, New Zealand. 
0730, Saturday 08 Sept 2018.
Location on google maps. https://goo.gl/maps/W4LFf9eqiwQ2

Gillespies Lagoon Dawn

Gillespies Lagoon Beach Dawn

Made at the same location as the hydrophone recording, this is above the water. 

Kalaone Reef

Just off the road to Alofi is the Kalaone seatrack, on my morning walk I noted this location and came back when the tide was at it's lowest point.

Hydrophones by http://hydrophones.blogspot.com
Location on google maps: http://goo.gl/QgGmwX
Excerpt from the Album, Niue: Savage Island available at http://naturesounds.co.nz

Kalaone Reef hydrophone

On the way down to the chasm. Crickets, birds, distant waves.. 

Location on google maps: http://goo.gl/QgGmwX
Excerpt from the Album, Niue: Savage Island available at http://naturesounds.co.nz

Matapa chasm bush atmos

Yep it's quiet, approx 32dB SPL at this location.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81ne_Mahuta
Latitude: -35° 36' 4.06" S
Longitude: 173° 31' 38.49" E
 
Recorder: Sonosax SXR4+ @ 24b/96k , gain at 80dB. (downsampled to 44.1 for soundcloud streaming)
Microphones: Sennheiser MKH 40/30 M/S pair

Tane Mahuta predawn quiet

Sunrise at Rosies Bay Track, Te Urewera Forest, 05.30  22 Oct 2018.

Te Urewera, Rosies Bay Track Dawn

Evening at Spirits Bay, Northland, New Zealand.

https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/northland/places/te-paki-recreation-reserve/things-to-do/campsites/kapowairua-spirits-bay-campsite/

Spirits Bay Evening Quiet Dusk

Recorded for: Oceanian PhoNographic Mornings

7.50AM Sunday 09092018 on the swing bridge leading to Lake Matherson, Fox Glacier Township, New Zealand. 

Location:
43°26'46.8"S 169°58'11.6"E


"Simply start the day here, taking some time to focus on listening, 
on your listening, through this listening. 
Put on your headphones, or space your speakers, 
to open wide this aural window on this « somewhere else morning», 
moreover, that « other morning ».
Some mornings of the world, wild or urban, remote or familiar, 
evoking the rising dawn or already sounding lunch. 
PhoNographic poems in order to continue to dream, 
to accompany coffee or tea, to take time for yourself before living home, 
share this soundscape with your love, your children, 
 or simply to accompany the launch of this so special day, 
furthermore this Sunday morning … »

Listen to all recordings in this project here.
https://chaquematindumonde.bandcamp.com/album/oceanian-phonographic-mornings

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of twenty soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout Oceania. Entitled « Oceanian PhoNographic Mornings » this series forms part of a wider project, « Each Morning of the World », which invites sound artists, composers and recordists globally to share their own specific point of listening, either through a raw field recording or original composition.
 

This project tends to focus on the vivacity and the creativity of the « soundscape » scene in the world. For that Stéphane Marin asks to a representative sample of sound creators, composers, recordists who use fieldrecording as a part of their creative process to share with the audience a creation or a raw recording of their own morning in a precise location of the world. The project also tend to cover the most larger part (or representative) of the continent area in 15 to 20 contributions per season (contributors are natives or foreigners; trying to share the most female contributors as possible, and tend to share the most local contributors as possible). The rule is simple a soundscape (from 3 to 15 minutes) is release each Sunday morning then the name of the contributor is reveal to the public and to the other contributors. 


Radios partners :
~ Resonance Extra  (London) 
~ Radio Grenouille  (Marseille - FR) 
~ @Radiocarbono podcast (ARG) 
~ radiokermes.com 106.1 - La Pampa (ARG) 
~ LA TRIBU 88.7 FM - Buenos Aires (ARG) 
~ Radio Panik 105.4 FM (Bruxelles - BE) 


Review :
https://acloserlisten.com/2018/04/01/various-artists-each-morning-of-the-world/

Lake Matherson swing bridge

Lake Matherson Swing Bridge Morning

Marsden Cross / Rangihoua Pa Full Moon 12-12-2019

Location on Google maps: http://goo.gl/QgGmwX
Set the volume at a comfortable/low level, not too loud or you'll overload your senses. 

The first European to sight Niue was Captain James Cook in 1774. Cook made three attempts to land on the island but was refused permission to do so by the Polynesian inhabitants. He named the island "Savage Island" because, legend has it, the natives that "greeted" him were painted in what appeared to Cook and his crew to be blood. However, the substance on their teeth was that of the hulahula, a native red banana.

For the next couple of centuries the island was known as Savage Island, until its original name Niu ē, which translates as "behold the coconut" regained use.


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Niue: "Savage Island"

10/01/13 Waipoua forest sunset.

This area of the forest has been logged extensively but seems to have recovered some, this was the liveliest area I could find where the Indian Myna wasn't the dominant species. 

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Location on Google maps
http://goo.gl/QgGmwX

When you visit the Waipoua forest, stay at the campground where you can hear Ruru (morepork) & Kiwi calling all night long! 

http://www.teroroa.iwi.nz/?q=node/7


Waipoua sunset

Tawharanui Morning: Total time: 60 mins.
Recorded at Tawharanui  Regional Park, Hibiscus Coast, New Zealand in early spring 2009. 

Location on google maps: http://goo.gl/QgGmwX

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Tawharanui Morning

Post Office Bay, Ulva Island, New Zealand.

Location on google maps: http://goo.gl/QgGmwX

22.30 mins 
41.3MB MP3 Download 
Ulva Island, winter 2009 
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Post Office Bay

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http://www.arohaisland.co.nz/index.php

Aroha Island Crickets

Many native birds thrive on the island including kiwi, tui, korimako (bellbird), both red and yellow crowned kakariki (parakeets), pateke (brown teal), kereru (wood pigeon), miromiro (tomtit), titipounamu (rifleman), riroriro (grey warbler), korora (blue penguin), popokatea (whitehead) and karuhiruhi (pied shag). 

With over 40 species of birds permanently or seasonally present, two bat species and 14 species of reptiles, the island supports the most diverse assemblage of native fauna of any island in the country. Because of this, and the fact the island is free of most introduced predators, it is considered to be one of the most important reserves of its kind in the world.

From the Album, Hauturu Island available at http://naturesounds.co.nz

Google Map:  http://goo.gl/QgGmwX

Hauturu: Flats Afternoon

The dawn of a new day. 
05.30am, 03 January 2010.

Puketi Forest is an ancient kauri (Agathis australis) forest located in Northland near Kerikeri. With the Omahuta Forest it forms one of the largest contiguous tracts of native forest in Northland.
It has 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) of kauri, podocarp and hardwood trees and a rich diversity including hundreds of recorded species of plants, some of which are found nowhere else in the world.  The short Manginangina Kauri Walk follows a boardwalk that winds through a mature stand of kauri and swamp forest. It’s a track that is suitable for all ages and fitness levels.

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Google Map: http://goo.gl/QgGmwX
More info: http://tinyurl.com/manginangina

Manginangina Kauri Walk

Nature Sounds of New Zealand. Soundscapes for meditation and relaxation. Recorded in 100% Pure New Zealand. 

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For me, sound recording is an important way to catalogue the biophony & geophony of a location at a given point in time. The landscape is ever changing and so is the life it supports. My sound recordings capture a moment that will never again exist - a "sonic photograph".

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