Field Recordings

This weekend we went to Crystal Waters Florida and recorded various sounds of the marine life. We took a boat out to theses specific locations including Kings Point Bay, Shell Island, and Mouth of Rainbow River. Here we captured some bizarre sounds of Dolphins communicating, thousands of shrimp feeding, and the distant moan of the Hypostomus Plecostomus catfish. (Headphones highly recommended). These recordings where captured using the Aquarian Audio H2a-XLR hydrophones, and Sound Devices 702 Digital recorder. Original files recorded at 24-bit-96khz.


Hydrophone Recordings of Dolphins, Shrimp Feeding, and Hypostomus Plecostomus Fish

Recording of Tornado Sirens in the distance tonight in Atlanta GA. The sounds of the strong winds and rain can be heard moving through the trees creating for a eerie atmosphere.  

Short recording made with the Neumann RSM-191 A/S and Sound Devices 702 Digital Recorder at 24-bit 96khz. Recorded at Midnight April 27th 2011. 



Eerie Recording of Tornado Sirens.

Recording of the sounds from my recent echo-cardiogram, often referred to in the medical community as a cardiac ECHO or simply an ECHO, is a sonogram of the heart. These are actual sounds taken from my heart on Tuesday May 10th 2011. The recording was taken straight from the Echo machine. I tried to record the blood flow measurements for each heart valve. 

Note: The photo is actually my aortic valve taken during the procedure:)

Recordings of my Echocardiogram-Cardiac Ultrasound-Sounds of blood flow

Sound recordings from "Teufelsberg" (German for Devil's Mountain) Listening station Berlin Germany. Short excerpts from the high tower dome trying to capture the most amazing spatial reverb echos from this most unusual structure.Various impacts, glass breaks, wooden clanks recorded at 24-bit 96kz with a Zoom H4N. Note: that some distant birds and wind can be heard through some of the recordings. This was due to some of the small holes in the ceiling structure, allowing some slight outside bleed. 
Link here to the history of this building below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teufelsberg



Field Recordings from Teufelsberg Listening Station Berlin, Germany

Recordings of various electrical devices (printers, scanners, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation, Mac-book hard drives, 5 different wireless modems, fax machines, iPhone, iPad, and computers. 
Recorded with two telephone recording microphones (induction coil) into a Sound Devices 744T recorder 24-bit 96khz.

Note: The file download is now available in the original 24-bit 96khz format. 


The Sound of Data Transmissions-Electromagnetic Fields

NOTE: This is not a song. Recorded on May 6th in Lake Lure North Carolina.  All recordings taken from the lake, rivers, and dam of Lake Lure. Everything was recorded at 24-bit 96k with a Sound Devices 702 recorder and DPA-8011 Hydrophone. No editing or post processing. 

Recorded by Richard Devine and Josh Kay

Recordings from the DPA 8011 Underwater Omnidirectional Microphone

The Amazon Rainforest when the sun sets, and then the jungle becomes alive with a rich tapestry of sounds. If you listen carefully you can hear the Ayahuasca Icaros being chanted by Shipibo Shaman Enrique Lopez during an Ayahuasca Ceremony. Recorded 2008 Part 1

Rainforest Night-time Sounds part 1

 Sounds of the Rainforest: The Amazon Rainforest when the sun sets;  the jungle becomes alive with a rich tapestry of sounds. Recorded 2008 in Mishana Part 2

Rainforest Night Sounds part  2

Found a large Velvet Ant walking on my driveway today, and couldn't help but notice the odd sounds this insect was making. The recording is of the insect crawling around inside a cardboard box, before I let it go back into my backyard. The Velvet Ant, also known as the "Cow Killer" is actually not an ant, but a wasp. I recorded this with 2 DPA 4060 Lav's and Sound Devices 702 recorder at 24bit-96Khz. 


Recording of a Velvet Ant.

Recording today of a container full of thousands of Maggots squirming in wet mud. I buried two H2a-XLR hydrophones below the surface (in the mud), and placed two DPA-4060 Lav microphones on the top surface and let the maggots call all over the place. All 4 channels are unprocessed, unedited 24bit-96khz captured with a Sound Devices recorder.


Hydrophone/Lav Recording of 1000 Maggots in sticky wet mud.

Short recording of a recording of a humming bird feeding on my back porch. This clip was recorded with two DPA 4060 Lav microphones taped to the humming bird feeder. Recorded on to a Sound Devices 702 recorder at 24-bit 96khz. 



Recording of Hummingbird Feeding.

Bat field recordings from a recent trip to the North GA mountains. This sound clip was captured using the Anabat SD2 - Bat Detector - high microphone. This device allows you to monitor the ultrasonic echolocation calls of bats for species identification and activity measurement. The particular species of bat in this recording are the Indiana Bat. The typical hearing range of this bat is between 20hz - 150Khz. They locate their prey by means of echolocation. They will produce a very, loud short sound and assess the echo when it bounces back. The type of insect and how big it is can be determined by the quality of the echo and time it takes for the echo to rebound. They also use two frequency types; constant frequency (CF) and frequency modulated (FM) calls that descend in pitch. Each type reveals different information for the bat. The CF is used to detect an object, and the FM is used to provide information regarding the nature of the object and its distance. The pulses of sound produced by the bat last only a few thousandths of a second with silences between the calls that give time to listen for the information coming back in the form of a echo. I was amazed at how complex some of these  echolocation patterns looked on a sonogram and was even more blown away by how they sounded. This file was outputted from the Anabat software application which takes the bat calls and converts them to wave files. The Anabat software application also converted the calls to a audible human hearing range (20hz-20khz) as most of the bats calls went up into the 150khz range. 

http://www.titley-scientific.com/us/index.php/sd2-bat-detector

Link to the Sonogram here: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151218179915358&set=a.132078960357.137137.708680357&type=1&theater

Bat Recordings - with the Anabat SD2 - Ultrasonic Echolocation Detector

Stereo underwater recording of burning embers of wood using two Aquarian Audio H2a-XLR hydrophones. Recorded at Anglers Point Blairsville GA on Lake Nottely on New Years Eve with Surachai. Captured with the  Sound Devices 744T at 192khz - 24bit. Download the 44.1khz-24bit version free here. 

Hydrophone Recording of Burning Embers Underwater

Multi-channel field recording of 12,000 Italian bees at Buckeye Creek Farm Cherokee GA.
The setup consisted of four wooden packages of bee's containing 3000 bees each stacked on top of each other creating a wall of swarming noise. 

 Captured with the Neumann RSM 191-A/S and DPA SMK 4060 omnidirectional miniature stereo microphones. Everything was recorded at 24-bit 96khz with the Sound Devices 744T and Mixpre-D. Free Download

Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/63253584
http://buckeyecreekfarmga.com/

Multi-channel field recording of 12,000 bees at Buckeye Creek Farm.

Collection of recordings on January 10th 2011 during the Georgia winter storm. Various sleds, ice breaking, ice creaking, icy tension cracks, and heavy snow crunches/impacts. All sounds recorded at 24-bit 96khz with the Neumann RSM 191 A-S M-S Stereo Shotgun Microphone System and Sound Devices 702 Digital Recorder. Two Aquarian audio H2a-XLR hydrophones used for the frozen water drainage pipe recording. 


Field Recordings

CJP