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Binaural Wednesday

Discover the sounds of natural environments and diverse cultures in these one of a kind binaural recordings from the archives of NPR. To fully experience the 3D sound in each soundscape, listen to the recording with your headphones on.

Learn more about the significance of each recording and find related stories in the description of each track.

Binaural soundscapes from the archives of NPR

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James Blake Feat. Chance the Rapper - "Life Round Here"

Just Rain sound w/o music which Contained natural white noise.
Recoreded at Seoul, South Korea.

Sounds of Nature Rain#1

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Dream Surf: Ocean Waves for Relaxation (Sounds of Nature)

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Radioforest (ExperimenTribe Records)
https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/track/equinoxio

Antonio Testa specializes in organic sound and the creation of musical atmospheres through the use of a vast array of mostly native and shamanic instruments, together with his own creations made from organic and recycled materials. Tribal-Ethno-Ambient is a genre merging musical forms and cultural sensibilities of the world's indigenous cultures sent through the filters of today's sound artists. By using state-of-the-art recording tools and processing technology, common ground is found between animal skin drum, the shaman's rattle and the digital domain. While the outlines of this style can be easily suggested and co-opted through more superficial cut and paste computer methods, RADIOFOREST shows that Testa clearly understands how powerful the authentic ethno-ambient form can be when created with a deep sense of the primal mind. Shifting trance percussion, ocarina, flutes, and synth textures co-mingle with field recordings from Mexico, Africa and Italy. In Antonio's words, the "radio" aspect is the music or the tribal drum transmitting outwards, a calling of the spirits to help the state of our planet. If you appreciate the solo music of Jorge Reyes, Testa and Alio Die, Suspended Memories, TUU, or Steve's ORIGINS and ARTIFACTS, then this is a must-have release.

Steve Roach
credits
released April 11, 2004

Equinoxio

Relaxing Sea Sounds - Soothing Sound Of Nature - Ocean Waves

Recorded in Brussels (Bockstael) on June 19, 2014, using Soundman OKM II binaural microphones and Marantz PMD671 flash recorder. Best heard with headphones !

Marché de Laeken

This ASMR audio is full of crinkly sounds and was recorded using binaural microphones.

ASMR Binaural Sounds - Captivating Crinkles

Binaural field recordings of hot air balloons as they ascend at Bristol Balloon Fiesta 2014. Between 06:30 and 07:00 during the morning launch on Sat 9th August.
http://binauraldiaries.co.uk/2014/08/bristol-balloon-fiesta-2014-6am-balloon-ascent/

Bristol Balloon Fiesta - 20140809 0659

Episode 7 of the experimental audio dairy.

In which we go for a family walk in the local deer park.

iTunes subscription: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/rev-dan-catt-experimental/id880132088?mt=2

Rev Dan Catt Experimental Audio Diary - Episode 7

This insect, no larger than a pea, is found in the suburban backyards of Virginia and in the rainforests of South America. Treehoppers “sing” their song by vibrating the limbs and branches of plants they live on.

Note: To fully experience the 3D sound in this soundscape, listen to the recording with your headphones on.

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Related Stories:

http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/1999/nov/991108.vanduzea.html


http://www.npr.org/series/5426618/the-hidden-language-of-insects

Treehoppers in a Virginia backyard (binaural/headphones)

A sonic journey across the sacred landscape lorded over by a warrior god. His mountain abode, Kawakarpo is a traditional pilgrimage site for Tibetan Buddhists.

Note: To fully experience the 3D sound in this soundscape, listen to the recording with your headphones on.

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Related Stories:

http://www.npr.org/series/5161424/geography-of-heaven-kawakarpo


http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2001/jan/010129.yunnan.html


http://www.npr.org/series/5222677/himalayan-healing-plants


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7316356




Tibetan Songscape (binaural/headphones)

In the northern polar region whiteouts are more common then rain. Just blowing snow. No sky, no horizon line, sometimes no evidence at all of the small inuit village of Resolute. Just its sounds.

Note: To fully experience the 3D sound in this soundscape, listen to the recording with your headphones on.

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Related Stories:

http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/1999/aug/990802.northpole.html


http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/1997/jul/19970711.arctic.html

The Polar Region (binaural/headphones)

The crack and roll of an air shattering pre-dawn thunderstorm acts as a fitting prelude to the roars and bellows of a bull elephant proclaiming that the Dzanga- Sangha rainforest of central Africa is his domain.

Note: To fully experience the 3D sound in this soundscape, listen to the recording with your headphones on.

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Related Stories:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1144425


http://www.npr.org/2002/10/31/828396/listening-to-elephants


http://www.npr.org/2014/05/08/309089369/civil-war-invades-an-elephant-sanctuary-one-researchers-escape


http://www.npr.org/2014/08/18/338989248/elephant-slaughter-african-slavery-and-americas-pianos


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346093

Storm & Elephant African Rainforest (binaural/headphones)

A pre-dawn song by this distinctive bird of Ecuador is captured in all its resonant glory by the Radio Expeditions team.

Note: To fully experience the 3D sound in this soundscape, listen to the recording with your headphones on.

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Related Stories:

http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/1999/nov/991108.vanduzea.html


http://www.npr.org/series/5426618/the-hidden-language-of-insects

Orapendula In Ecuador (binaural/headphones)

A shimmering evening fantasia of insect song and the singing of Bayaka men sitting in a circle illuminated only by firelight and stars.

Note: To fully experience the 3D sound in this soundscape, listen to the recording with your headphones on.

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Related Stories:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1144425

http://www.npr.org/2002/10/31/828396/listening-to-elephants

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/08/309089369/civil-war-invades-an-elephant-sanctuary-one-researchers-escape

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/18/338989248/elephant-slaughter-african-slavery-and-americas-pianos

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346093


Late Afternoon To Dusk In An African Rainforest (binaural/headphones)

The discovery of whale song in the 1960’s was a revelation for scientists. Their research demonstrated that whales sing in structured phrases not unlike those found in human song form. Song variations are created and shared communally by whales often separated by great distances.

Note: To fully experience the 3D sound in this soundscape, listen to the recording with your headphones on.

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Related Stories:

http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/1999/jan/990122.whale.html


http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2000/mar/000327.whales.html

Humback Whale Above And Below (binaural/headphones)

Listen to the rasping trills and beating wings of bats as they take flight in this unusual subterranean hibernaculum, an abandoned copper mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Note: To fully experience the 3D sound in this soundscape, listen to the recording with your headphones on.

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Related stories: 

http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2000/jun/000605.bats.html

http://michiganradio.org/post/biologists-expect-worst-michigans-bat-population


Bats (binaural/headphones)

Testing Soundman OKM II Binaural microphones with Soundman dead kitten earmuffs while walking through the snow. Emma and Asia run around me near the end of this short recording, giving a very spacial and spacial sound print.

Binaural Recording of Walking in Snow and Dogs Running

A section of Great Lake Swimmer's, Your Rocky Spine, sung a cappella while walking around a binaural dummy head.


Binaural: Your Rocky Spine (a cappella)

Dance to Bobò
ExperimenTribe https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/track/dance-to-bobo-2

Each musical work by Antonio Testa could be described as a journey that takes us around the world.
The attitude is similar to that of other eminent musicologists like David Parsons and Stephan Micus, but Testa’s approach to music is a very personal one.
"Ecosphere" confirms the eclecticismat the base of his music career
It was created in order “to find a balance between the biosphere and the technosphere' .
Translated into sound, it means a blessed meeting between the new deep rhythmic of the digital age and the old traditional harmonies of the world’s music.
In order to interpret them, Testa has trusted once again the magnetic voice of Susana Beatriz Alvear , author of lyrics and vocals and also responsible for five of the first six tracks, languid trip-hop dances in which the trumpet of Roberto Santoro ("Recuerdos ") shines alongside the acoustic guitars of Francesco Saverio Porciello (" Dance To Bobo ") and the drones played by Alio Die mixed with his bases and his bouzoki strings (played by Tito Rinesi).
In "Maya Prayer" we find fields recordings recorded by Testa in the forests of Mexico. Before the final track there is also space for a long-tropical ambient improvisation recorded in 1995 in Milan with U. de Souza, Raphael Scinia, Susana Beatriz Alvear and Rosana Santos.
Roberto Mandolini
credits
released December 10, 2008

Composed and recorded at Tribe studio in Milan, Italy 2008.

All music composed and perfomed by Antonio Testa © SIAE Italy except:: Tracks 2&4 A.Testa & Tito Rinesi, Tracks 11 A.Testa, U.De Souza, Raphael Scinia.

Antonio Testa: Drum, Percussion, Organic instruments, Kalabash, Talking Drum, Udu, Bambù, Teponatli, Horn, Wood, Bone flutes, Mbira, Darbuka, Stones, Shell, Stalagmite, Voice, Piano, Keyboards, Samples, Textures and Drones, Programming, Fields recording from Burkina Faso, Mexico and Italy.

S.B.Alvear: Lyrics, Classic and Etnic voices on Tracks:1.2.3.5.6
Roberto Santoro: Trumbet and Classic guitar Track 2
Tito Rinesi: Programming, Keyboards and Bouzouki Track 4.
Alio Die: Drone Track 4.
Davide Mantovani: Bass guitar Tracks 2.5.
Francesco Saverio Porciello: Acoustic guitars Track 6.
Kayum: voice recording live at Mexico forest Track 8.
U.De Souza: Lyric, voice and Classic guitar Track 11.
Raphael Scinia: Electric guitar Track 11.
S.B. Alvear: Percussion Track 11.
Rosana Santos: Percussion Track 11
Track 11 recording live at Tribe studio Milan Italy.

Artwork by Mariella Fumagalli.
Photo by Rahièn Testa.

ExperimenTribe Records 2008

Dance to Bobo

https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-of-the-nature

No science and no magic will be ever able to find the angelic purity of the sounds that men could hear in those days”- This sound map, full of singing birds, breaths of wind, water fountains, the distant tolling of bells, of crickets and insects, is an acoustic sculpture of great impact on our daily hearing system offended by the painful sounds of human society. With this work by Antonio Testa, you’ll be able to discover the sound of nature as it has always been, and with it, its wonderful balance. The artist has followed the life of the park, he has immersed himself in its biological rhythms until he became an integral part of it, he has seized the park’s hidden expressions. A work of acoustic ecology, which highlights the pain that the human impact has caused

Gianluigi Gasparetti / Deep Listenings
credits
released May 1, 1998

Recording in 1998 In the Natural Park of the Capanne di Marcarolo (AL) Italy.
Ideation and Recording: Antonio Testa

Ornithologist: Massimo Campora
Faunist: Renato Cottalasso

Editing and Mastering: Max Costa

Photographs: Massimo Campora and Renato Cottalasso

ExperimenTribe Records © SIAE Italy 1998

Sound of the nature

https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/album/sacb

This CD published by Tribe is titled "Sacred - Bright Way" (Sacred paths on Mother Earth) " and it is the guide to a good travel experience in the Land of the Maya. Among the temples and sacred sites of ancient Mexico, a sort of spiritual diary written by several hands collects the memories of a pilgrimage to the "Sacred" route, the enlightened way which leads to the inner awakening and propitiates astral calm, according to the ancient shamanic teachings of the Aztec. But more than a travelling reportage, the writings that accompany the CD of Antonio Testa are a collection of thoughts on both the small and great mysteries of human existence, a guide that promotes that excursions of the soul that the authors use in that adventure;it tells us about the emotions felt during the ceremonies for the Spring Equinox or the perception of an eminent presence in the jungle of Chiapas and in the Natural Park of the Birds, or in the joyous ritual of the singing well described by the story. Furthermore , there is the music composed by Antonio Testa for this occasion, the sounding page (preceded by an essay by the artist) that brings us a little closer into the midst of these ancient cultures and thir timeless spiritual moments, right into the land of their ancestors:the dances and the songs around Life’s fire which burns into the wind of the cosmic night and that threw its shadows on our time.

ALDO CHIMENTI Rocherilla

Shaman Coyotl

Antonio Testa   https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/track/rapanui

Each musical work by Antonio Testa could be described as a journey that takes us around the world.
The attitude is similar to that of other eminent musicologists like David Parsons and Stephan Micus, but Testa’s approach to music is a very personal one.
"Ecosphere" confirms the eclecticismat the base of his music career
It was created in order “to find a balance between the biosphere and the technosphere' .
Translated into sound, it means a blessed meeting between the new deep rhythmic of the digital age and the old traditional harmonies of the world’s music.
In order to interpret them, Testa has trusted once again the magnetic voice of Susana Beatriz Alvear , author of lyrics and vocals and also responsible for five of the first six tracks, languid trip-hop dances in which the trumpet of Roberto Santoro ("Recuerdos ") shines alongside the acoustic guitars of Francesco Saverio Porciello (" Dance To Bobo ") and the drones played by Alio Die mixed with his bases and his bouzoki strings (played by Tito Rinesi).
In "Maya Prayer" we find fields recordings recorded by Testa in the forests of Mexico. Before the final track there is also space for a long-tropical ambient improvisation recorded in 1995 in Milan with U. de Souza, Raphael Scinia, Susana Beatriz Alvear and Rosana Santos.
Roberto Mandolini
credits
released December 10, 2008

Composed and recorded at Tribe studio in Milan, Italy 2008.

All music composed and perfomed by Antonio Testa © SIAE Italy except:: Tracks 2&4 A.Testa & Tito Rinesi, Tracks 11 A.Testa, U.De Souza, Raphael Scinia.

Antonio Testa: Drum, Percussion, Organic instruments, Kalabash, Talking Drum, Udu, Bambù, Teponatli, Horn, Wood, Bone flutes, Mbira, Darbuka, Stones, Shell, Stalagmite, Voice, Piano, Keyboards, Samples, Textures and Drones, Programming, Fields recording from Burkina Faso, Mexico and Italy.

S.B.Alvear: Lyrics, Classic and Etnic voices on Tracks:1.2.3.5.6
Roberto Santoro: Trumbet and Classic guitar Track 2
Tito Rinesi: Programming, Keyboards and Bouzouki Track 4.
Alio Die: Drone Track 4.
Davide Mantovani: Bass guitar Tracks 2.5.
Francesco Saverio Porciello: Acoustic guitars Track 6.
Kayum: voice recording live at Mexico forest Track 8.
U.De Souza: Lyric, voice and Classic guitar Track 11.
Raphael Scinia: Electric guitar Track 11.
S.B. Alvear: Percussion Track 11.
Rosana Santos: Percussion Track 11
Track 11 recording live at Tribe studio Milan Italy.

Artwork by Mariella Fumagalli.
Photo by Rahièn Testa.

ExperimenTribe Records 2008

Rapanui

Sounds Of Nature - Soothing Waterfalls

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2013/05/life-round-here-manik-ghost-pine

Download at XLR8R

James Blake "Life Round Here (MANIK Ghost Pines Rework)"

Sounds of Nature - a pine forest in April

Что может быть лучше звуков природы? Бегущие ручьи под первыми тёплыми лучами солнца, пение птиц и звонкая капель приходящей весны, шум шелестящих ветвей, словно морская волна с перекатами и приливом и конечно же, скрип старых сосен, томно раскачивающихся на ветру. Всё это собрано в этом музыкальном треке, записанным мною в апреле.

Эта композиция, создана для расслабления нервной системы и приведения её в порядок. Каждый кусочек звука собран в единый трек продолжительностью 25 минут. Вступление состоит из звуков ручья и воды, что бы ввести слушателя в тему и расслабить, дальше, вы услышите грозные раскаты гула ветвей от сильного ветра, это расслабит и позволит отвлечься от ненужных мыслей. В середине трека, вы услышите загадочный скрип сосен, а к концу композиции мы вернёмся к солнечному ручью. 

Надеюсь вы прослушаете данный трек до конца и он не только очарует Вас, но и поможет вам расслабиться и привести ваши нервы в порядок! Релаксируйте, расслабляйтесь и любите природу. Для прослушивания, я рекомендую надеть хорошие наушники и лежать закрыв глаза в тишине.


Sounds of Nature - a pine forest in April

What could be better than the sounds of nature? Flowing streams under the first warm rays of the sun, bird songs and calls drops of spring coming, the sound of rustling branches, like a sea wave and tidal shoals, and of course, the creaking of old pine trees, languidly swaying in the wind. All this comes in this musical track recorded by me in April.

This composition is designed to relax the nervous system and bring it into order. Each piece is assembled into a single audio track of 25 minutes. The entry consists of the sounds of the creek and water, which would introduce the listener to the topic and relax, go on, you will hear the ominous rumble rumble branches from the strong wind, it will relax and get away from unwanted thoughts. In the middle of the track, you will hear a mysterious creaking pine trees, and by the end of the song we go back to the solar stream.

I hope you will listen to this track to the end and it will not only enchant you but also help you to relax and bring your nerves in order! Relaxing, relax and enjoy nature. To listen, I recommend to put on good headphones and lay eyes closed in silence.

Sounds of Nature - a pine forest in April

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