Simona Castria — saxophone
Morgan Laplace Mermoud — percussion
Julia Sinoimeri — accordion
Moeka Ueno — piano

Fernando Palomeque — cond. 

rec & mix : A. Pétiard
27/02/21, Conservatoire de Paris CNSMDP

photo © B. Champeaux

Scorie (2020)

Two black woodpeckers hammering in duel, a wren can be heard in the background. 

Recorded :  24.03.2022,   3 pm.
Location:   Siebentischwald, Augsburg/Bavaria - Germany
ZOMM F8 - RODE NT5 MP - ORTF - Sourcefile: 96 KHz

Black Woodpecker - Wren Wood - Ambient - Forest - Field Recording - Nature

For the full-length version: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20220702-still-night-in-a-pine-forest-winter-full-version

2022.07.02 Still Night In A Pine Forest. Winter. (Abridged Version)

August 14, 2022...    forest soundscape at ~ 5 am.   Quiet, still, calm, little wind, dominated by insect sounds typical of this time of year.  Recorder & mics located on the edge of a still pool in Brown Creek, not flowing this time of year due to lack of rain in late summer here.  There actually is a very slight flow of water, which can be heard thoughout the recording.   Photo shows site of recording.  Near the beginning of the recording there are calls of an eastern screech owl.  Later, a few frogs chime in.   This night was relatively cool for August (temps in the high 60°F range).  

In the forest here, this is the the quietest time of the night, 1-2 hours before dawn.  After dawn, the cicadas will start, the wind will pick up and it won't be quiet again until late afternoon.  As night falls, the evening summer soundscape here is dominated by (very loud) katydids, crickets, other insects and sometimes frogs/toads, for hours...   continuing through most of the night until early morning quiet time. 

Recorded with Earsight mics about 50-60 cm apart into a Zoom F3 recorder.  Low frequencies were attenuated and volume was adjusted.  

Headphones recommended (as always).

Arkansas forest in late summer ~ 5 am August 14, 2022

These recordings were made with deep respect in the country of the Ngarrindjeri peoples.

With respect, with sadness, with hope. Everything here has changed; except for the sound of the ocean. Where the waters meet, is where the sounds merge. The sound of the ocean, permeating all, remains the same.

Unprocessed excerpts from original recordings. (Listening with good quality headphones - preferably open-backed - with a flat frequency response is recommended.)

An Afterword: I am deeply pleased and honoured that the original recordings from which this piece was composed have found a perfect home in Megan Spencer's important and heartfelt podcast, 'Bringing His Spirit Home: Private Arthur Thomas Walker, Ngarrindjeri ANZAC', as immersive field recordings made in, and expressing the natural spirit of, Arthur Thomas Walker's home country. This educational podcast is one of four produced by Megan, commissioned by the Virtual War Memorial Australia, and can be heard here: https://vwma.org.au/education/bringing-his-spirit-home-private-arthur-thomas-walker-ngarrindjeri-anzac.

Some of my earlier Kurangk/Coorong recordings have also been happily woven into Megan's related podcast, 'Walking in Two Worlds: The WW1 Story of Ngarrindjeri ANZACs Cryril & Rufus Rigney', which can be heard here: https://vwma.org.au/education/podcast--walking-in-two-worlds--the-ww1-story-of-ngarrindjeri-anzacs-cyril-rufus-rigney.

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2022.10.09 From the Mouth of Murrundi to Goolwa Beach. Kumerangk, Kurangk. Night to Dawn. Spring.

It's dawn on a very still Lake Öjesjön in mid April. Just a few days earlier the lake was completely frozen, but in the past few days Spring has well and truly come alive. In this recording we hear Canada and Grey Lag Geese, Common Cranes, Goldeneye and other wetland birds on the lake. From the trees on the shore of the lake we hear a Redwing accompanied by other woodland birds. From time to time we hear Black Grouse displaying in the distance. 

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 ii + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s (ORTF)
15.04.2023

Dawn At Öjesjön Lake - Västmanland, Sweden

SPECTRAL   DREAM   -   2

Streichquartett No. 3

Morning at Yanayacu River

[Experiment] Trying the Shure MV88 mic on a iPhone for field recording (nature).   Not that I would want to do this very often, but it could be useful when better mics/recorders are not available in a given moment.   The photo shows the location where this recording was made (holding the iPhone, standing about 5 feet from the grass in lower middle of photo).

[Setup] Shure MV88 on an iPhone 10 with foam windscreen. Settings on app:  mid-side mode, max compression, flat EQ,   The quality is not bad for what it is.

The Shure MV88 is *not* a sensitive mic and certainly not great for nature field recording.  The manual even says it was designed to record in very loud environments like concerts, so it would not be good for recording a quiet soundscape.   However, for loud environments it seems OK.   These cricket frogs were so loud that I wore the headphones for ear protection even when not recording.  Without ear protection the frog calls were painfully loud (to give an idea of the ambient sound levels being recorded).

BTW, on an iPhone X I was not able to find a way to monitor audio while recording.  Gain was set by watching the meter on the app.  On phones that have plug-in headphones, apparently there is a way to monitor audio while recording.

iPhone field recording using Shure MV88 mic (frogs in forest)

Phonography : In the middle of a herd of cows near a water point, multiple cowbells ringing around me. Mooing cows, lot of crickets.

Recorded inside the "Parc du Mercantour", French Alps, France.

Microphones : Double M/S Sennheiser (MKH 8040+30)

Recorder : Sound Device MixPre 10T

GPS coordinates : 43.995373, 7.442152

08/22/2020

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Phonography : Cow Paradise,  Parc du Mercantour (43.995373,7.442152)

Phonography is an artistic and traveling project dedicated to sound recording that brought us from Alaska to Ushuaia.

Throughout this trip, we recorded sounds and we will publish them on this site as and when we derush them.

Other destinations to come.

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Phonography : Cow Paradise, Parc du Mercantour (43.995373,7.442152)

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