May it all be protected until the end of time...

this Demo is made 100% with audio samples from the "PWL06 Wilderness Americas : Central American Jungle : Colombia - Costa Rica" Sound library. No filter or effect was applyed.

Here is the originals "referenced" files taken from the library :

Colombia : Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

00:00 -> Montane Tropical Forest Ambiance Day in jungle, surrounding point of a little valley, insect, cicada, exotic birds, light wind, some bamboo trees.

00:15 -> Montane Tropical Forest Quiet ambiance Day in jungle, insect, cicada, Oropendola exotic bird, call, wing flap, constant insect buzzing, Oropendola nest under a tree, insect flying around tree flowers.

00:30 -> Montane Tropical Forest Under a tree full of nest, Oropendola, exotic, tropical bird, call, wing flap. (mono - Telinga parabola)

00:45 -> Montane Tropical Forest Quiet ambiance Day in a Bamboo grove, light to moderate wind through bamboo leaves, bamboo wood creak, small birds shirping, ORTF.

01:00 -> Montane Tropical Forest ambiance afternoon in jungle, insect, cicada, Howler Monkeys, calling, tree branch breaking and falling, exotic birds in background.

01:15 -> Montane Tropical Forest ambiance afternoon in jungle, end of the day, quiet atmosphere, Howler Monkeys in the distance, exotic birds call.

01:30 -> Montane Tropical Forest  ambiance night in jungle, insect, very loud cicada, exotic birds, strange night call, like a Owl.

01:45 -> Montane Tropical Forest ambiance night in jungle, quiet insect, cicada, strange birds call.

02:00 -> Montane Tropical Forest ambiance morning in jungle, many exotic birds feeding themself. Strong Bird call, Oropendula in background. Insect passby. Distant Howler Monkeys in background, very discreet. Dawn Chorus.

Colombia : Cocora Valley

02:15 -> Montane Tropical Forest ambiance night under light rain, quiet atmosphere, water drop on leaves, batrachian, amphibian, frog call, birds.

02:30 -> Montane Tropical Forest ambiance night under rain, tropical storm is coming, thunder, water drop on leaves, batrachian, amphibian, frog call, birds. 

02:45 -> Montane Tropical Forest ambiance day, open area, wax palm trees, light wind through leaves, multiple exotic birds, insect, distant valley roaming river.

Costa Rica : Parque Nacional Corcovado – Osa Peninsula

03:00 -> Rainforest, ambiance day, multiple exotics birds, chirping and calling, very distant and discreet howler monkeys in the distance,wood and branches crack due to animals presence, cicada, cricket.

03:15 -> Rainforest, day, afternon, Pacific Ocean, beach, gentle waves , scarlet macaws, parrot, tropical birds.

Costa Rica : Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve – Puntarenas

03:30 -> Tropical Montane Cloud Forest, day, afternoon, quiet atmosphere, light wind, multiple exotics birds, chirpping, insects.

03:45 -> Tropical Montane Cloud Forest, day, afternoon, quiet atmosphere, very light wind, strange exotics birds call, like a metallic and harmonic rusty whistle (Varied Thrush), wings flap, insects, cicada, cricket.

04:00 -> Tropical Montane Cloud Forest, day, afternoon, quiet atmosphere, very light wind, small birds chirpping, insects, cicada, cricket.

Costa Rica : Biological Reserve Lomas Barbudal

04:15 -> Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forest Day, soft wind through tree leaves, exotics birds surrounding the mic, insect buzzing, distant river. Small chunk of wood, fruit, branches falling from trees.

04:30 -> Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forest Day, quiet afternoon, small birds chirpping, tweetingt, woodpecker, insect buzzing. (take 2)

04:45 -> Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forest, Day, soft wind through tree leaves, exotics bird call, insect buzzing, distant river. Small chunk of wood, fruit, branches falling from trees.

This library focus on the wildlife and wilderness sounds of the different type of forest encountered across these countries : rainforest, cloud forest, montane tropical forest, Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forest, primal forest, bamboo forest.

PWL06 Colombia CostaRica Jungle DEMO

During a mid-March visit to Big Bend National Park in Texas, I recorded this immersive binaural soundscape at dawn in Santa Elena Canyon. It features wind blowing through a dense thicket of Carrizo Cane (an invasive species from Asia that is now common along the Rio Grande), which produces clicks and clatters as gusts pass through the stiff, bamboo-like reeds. Ravens nest in the canyon and croak repeatedly as they fly up and down the Rio Grande River, their calls echoing off the steep cliffs above. Such a pleasing, enveloping mix of the sounds of the wind, ravens and reeds!. Please wear headphones for optimal immersion!

Recorded by Lang Elliott on March 17, 2021 shortly before sunrise. © Lang Elliott, All Rights Reserved.

Wind, Ravens, Reeds

3 minute audio sample from the 66 minute nature soundscape; "Dawnsong of Tuis", available for download from www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=123

The Tui (pronounce "too-ee"), a native honeyeater of New Zealand, has one of the most extraordinary voices of the bird world.

Their vocabularies consist of fluting and ringing bell-like tones, wheezy whistles, buzzes, clucks and ultrasonics almost too high for the human ear.

This recording will take you to the majestic old-growth forest of Whirinake, to hear a sublimely musical chorus of Tuis singing in the hour before dawn.

As I stood in the darkness that morning, under ancient tree ferns, hearing those first Tuis begin calling, I knew it would be a special recording. It was one of those moments that I hope to hear; when nature creates pure beauty. I feel this album is a meditation on the beauty of the natural world. 

'Dawnsong of Tuis' - Album Sample

NOTE: This is a binaural soundscape ... please listen using headphones! Otherwise, you may not appreciate the magic.

I always strive to keep my ears well-tuned, in order to perceive uplifting soundscapes that might easily escape notice, but sometimes I am not quite up to the task. Such was the case in late July of 2018.

I met up with two recording friends at one of my favorite wild areas … Shindagin Hollow in upstate New York, near where I live. We were very glad to see one another and immediately began chatting about this and that as we hooked up our recording equipment (they with parabolic reflectors and me with my binaural soundscape microphone). Then we dispersed, heading into the forest in different directions, each hoping to capture something of value.

It was then that I paused for a moment just to take in the scene … a foggy misty morning following a rainy night … the deep forest of hemlocks and hardwoods … drip from leaves in all directions … and subtle bird songs. I took a long slow breath and began to amble down the trail. At that moment, a wood thrush caught my attention, singing in the distance though quite clear. I stopped and listened more attentively … another was sounding off from even farther away, and a very faint one as well, unless I was just imagining it. And did I just hear a hermit thrush, buried in the mix?

Oh my, I almost did not notice … there, right next to the road, a lone ground cricket trilling prominently from the gravel. How could I have missed such an obvious sound? And then I detected a barred owl, hooting way off in the distance. And a mourning dove, just audible, cooing softly time and again.

Suddenly, I shook myself awake, finally aware of the miracle before me! The magic I was hoping to find somewhere down the trail was actually right next to me, fully and elegantly expressed! I did not need to walk down the trail in search of anything because nature was already showering me with an exalted mix, an elixir so pure and powerful that it thrilled my entire being, but only after I became fully receptive to it. Had I kept walking, I would have missed it entirely. Thank you wood thrush for breaking the spell of my self absorption, for unplugging my ears and inviting me into the here and now!

So finally I jumped into action … I quickly set up my soundscape mic, hit record, and prayed that nothing would interrupt this amazing concert so freely given. How careful we must be to keep our minds calm and quiet and our senses free of interference, so that we do not miss the extraordinary beauty that nature showers upon us, sometimes subtly, and often when we least expect it to arrive.

© Lang Elliott, Music of Nature. All Rights Reserved.

Thrush Dripscape

The bulk of volcanic Mount Meru dominates the Arusha landscape in equatorial East Africa. Looking out from its forested slopes toward the east, its sister volcano, Mt. Kilimanjaro, can be seen on the horizon some 70km distant.

This recording begins in silence under a canopy of tropical forest in the hours before dawn. From far away comes a barely audible murmuring; the huffing of distant colobus monkeys. Like a mexican wave, the sound grows closer, with each successive troupe around the base of the mountain waking the next, until a family of monkeys in the trees overhead begin calling; a wonderful, gruff, barking chorus.

Then it falls silent again. Bush babies call occasionally in the darkness. Soon the dawn birdsong begins, the air becoming filled with the sounds of greenbuls, flycatchers, sunbirds, and groups of colourful turacos which vocalise loudly as they scurry along high branches. Silverey-cheeked hornbills wing overhead, and diurnal cicadas begin buzzing. Birds move around the forest, as do the colobus monkeys, now active and clambering noisily around the treetops.

By late afternoon, other birds are heard, including the dusk singing of an olive thrush. The colobus give their evening chorus and the forest moves imperceptibly into the night.

3 minute audio sample from the 118 minute nature sound album; "Equatorial Africa - The Forests of Arusha", available for download from http://www.listeningearth.com/LE/p-131

Equatorial Africa - The Forests of Arusha - Album Sample

Superb Lyrebird calling in the early morning, not long after dawn, in the Jamison Valley. This particular area of the Jamison Valley is on the slopes of the Narrow Neck Plateau and is covered in lush, wet sclerophyll forest, which borders a small pocket of rainforest.
Some of the birds the lyrebird mimics in this performance are: Laughing Kookaburra, Satin Bowerbird, Eastern Whipbird, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Lewin's Honeyeater, Pied Currawong, Crimson Rosella, Pilotbird, Australian King Parrot. Many of the odd sounds it makes are pure Lyrebird calls as they do have their own unique repertoire. 
In the background you can hear many Bell Miners twinkling.
November, 2014.

Superb Lyrebird In The Jamison Valley, Blue Mountains

Night Ambience at Lake Yarina [Peruvian Amazon]

5-min recording at dusk at Ojesjon lake. Black-throated divers, frogs, woodcock and others

Ojesjon Lake dusk 5 mins April 2019

Werbeliner See bei Leipzig, 10.06.2019, 21:00 Uhr
unfortunately with a little bit of traffic noise

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Thunderstorm at the lake

A troop of Borean Gibbons call across a shallow valley on a damp morning after a night of rain. A white-rumpped shama awakes. Recorded near Purut camp in the Danum valley reserve in Sabah, May 2017.

Danum in rain

Now released as part of an 80-minute soundscape, entitled 'Native Birdsong of New Zealand', and available for download at:
http://www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=116

Native birdsong at dawn on Tiritiri Matangi Island, New Zealand. 

The sing-song of Bellbirds and the virtuosic calls of Tuis can be heard, along with whiteheads, fantail, kingfisher and (incredibly rare) stitchbirds. 

This is a short sample recording from our recent field trip to New Zealand. We plan to release full length NZ recordings in the new year (2113). 

New Zealand native birdsong dawn chorus

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.

More sounds and information on:

www.phonography.world

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