I performed a Mid-Side test by inserting a Primo EM283 figure-eight microphone and a PUI AOM 5024 omnidirectional microphone into a 53 cm diameter parabolic dish.

MID - SIDE AOM5024 + EM283 figure 8 Parabolic Microphone Blackcap Song

After an overnight rain and before dawn the sounds of two song birds, a cricket, a flock of noisy ravens, and distant fisherman preparing nets, are accompanied by pounding waves of the Arabian Sea, Kerala State, India. Recorded October 2022 with pair Lom Usi Pro omni mics in AB stereo & Zoom F3.

Arabian Sea Sunrise

The endangered pine rocklands provide ideal bird habitat during the dry season at Everglades National Park, Florida. A Chuck-will's-widow intones with nighttime crickets, an Eastern Towhee clicks at daybreak, and while afternoon winds blow through the forest, a Northern Cardinal sings. Recorded April 2023.Three clips edited from 44 hours of recording with Zoom F3 and Ursi Pro stereo pair taped to tree trunk.

Pinelands Dry Season Birds

Green Tree frogs, Southern toads, Pig frogs, and a cricket sing separately to create a cohesive soundscape after dark in the Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida. Recorded June 2023 with NOS pair Line Audio CM3 cardioids & Sound Devices MixPre-3.

Dark Swamp Forest Frogs

In this excerpt the sounds of the loom, as metaphor of the technological information operated by the handcrafted gesture of the hand, creates new possibilities of language.
The piece want to give an imaginative sound rendition to the warp and weft weaving process, the presence and absence of representation, and the intersection to technology with tradition.

Credits:

Loom is part of the EP “Scanners”, released February 18, 2023 for the label Plus Timbre

Lorenzo Brilli - sampler, production, electronics, drums, percussions

Recorded and composed on June 2022 
Mixed and mastered at Ferm_ Recording studio by Ruggero Fornari

Loom Excerpt

A Hindu priest recites prayers that assist a worshiper with spiritual guidance at the Pashupatinath Temple complex in Kathmandu, Nepal. Located on the banks of the Bagmati River, It is here many Nepalis bring their dead for Hindu cremation rituals. Recorded November 2023 with Audio Technical  AT4025 stereo microphone & Sound Devices MixPre 3.

Nepal - Hindu Priest

As alligators glide by in flooded cypress forest at sunset, hungry fish splash for insects, honey bees visit wildflowers, and pig frogs, doves, woodpeckers, cormorants, and herons call, and at 2:25 a large bird flies past. Recorded March 2024 in The Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, with pair Line Audio cardiod microphone in NOS. MixPre-3 has 80 Db gain and -40 Hz low cut.

Cypress Forest Sunset

21 03 2024 MS Avec deux Schoeps CMC3U, une MK4 et une MK8 (abeilles) (24 Bit - 96 KHz)

A warm onshore breeze pushes small expressive waves onto the beach at the Nature Conservancy's Blowing Rocks Preserve, Jupiter, Florida. Recorded April 2024 with match pair Line Audio CM3 cardioids in NOS stereo and Sound Devices Mix-Pre 3, 50 Db gain and -80z low cut.

Florida Waves

2025-03-23 19_41_12 MDLR

Stefano Bellemo - Registrazioni microfoniche oggetti - Manipolazioni.
Anno produzione 2016
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Olivio Fass