Soundscapes + field recordings

High-voltage pole near the railroad tracks. Recorded with LOM Geofón and MixPre3.

Railroad Drone

Werbeliner See bei Leipzig, 12.03.2022, 07:00 Uhr.

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Goldammer (Yellowhammer), 12.03.2022

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

Such an angry bird lol, these always make me laugh as their posture always makes them look like they mean business and they really do! 

They make a variety of different song types but all of them seem to share this rich, Song Thrush like quality that's powerful, smooth and has some satisfying higher articulation. 

Gear: Sound Devices Mixpre 6 ii / Telinga Dish / Schoeps CCM 4 / Lom Usi Pro's

Gavin Vella

Nuthatch - MixPre - 5465

When you're walking in a lush jungle it's very easy to miss small things like termites, ants, snakes or a gorilla (that totally happened by the way). Long version at https://youtu.be/WQa2E4iAnWQ

Dusk in the rainforest

It's no wonder these birds are so easily persecuted, as they are so loud during the breeding season. Especially when the chicks have fledged as they're constantly calling the parents for food. This nest is monitored and chicks are ringed every year but they have decided to nest right alongside a main track so I hope they don't attract the wrong attention. Either way, chicks have fledged and are wondering further away from the nest site, so hopefully they'll disperse soon. 

Gear: Sound Devices Mixpre 6 ii / Schoeps CCM 4 in Telinga Dish / Schoeps CCM 2 Stereo Pair

Goshawk Fledglings - MixPre - 5929

It's a slow start to the day at Andravoahangy market in Madagascar's capital. Sellers are unwrapping their wares and laying them out in little displays in their stalls. Recorded with Sony PCM D100.

Calm day at the market in Antananarivo

Westhampton, Massachusetts forest, 11:45pm-6:3Oam

For an abridged version: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20220702-still-night-in-a-pine-forest-winter-abridged-version

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

Red-winged blackbirds

Madagascar's dry forests are amazing biomes, full of weird flora and fauna. Huge baobabs tower over thorny scrub, dwarfing everything around them and creating a feeling of awe. Long version at https://youtu.be/Dnsz-1Jjmws

Madagascar dry forest sounds

A representative abridgement of an attended recording that runs from 02:33 to 06:44. Edited without processing. 96/32 > 48/24.

Hear a longer version

2022.09.11 Pine Forest. Full Moon Night. Early Spring.

Recorded from http://acoustics.safeproject.net/06:00/3/36068?t=0.1444

Borneo rainforest dawn | 5:43-6:29AM, 4°42'40.25'' N 117°37'8.36'' E

Unedited and unprocessed original recording.
Recorded on land of the Meru and Danggali peoples.

2020.09.14 Dawn in the Mallee. Spring.

As dusk falls in the Amazon rainforest, the sounds of the jungle change dramatically. Long version at https://youtu.be/Yfm_Vkv0C9o

Dusk in the Amazon rainforest

Rain in the Amazon rainforest sounds soothing, calming, meditative. Long version at https://youtu.be/2cwPNJTpl4s

Soothing rain in the Amazon rainforest

Whale Song is a collection of underwater recordings of humpback whales singing and calling in the Indian Ocean. Get the library at https://mindful-audio.com/whale-song.

MAFX025 WHALE SONG Demo

Maxi the cat discovers my microphone, screams into it and purrs. In the background you can hear the nearby children's playground. Birds are chirping ...
🎧 Please use headphones.

Recorded : 03.10.2022
Location: Augsburg/Bavaria - Germany
SENNHEISER AMBEO SMART HEADSET - Sourcefile: 48 KHz

🎧 Maxi the cat discovers my microphone ... 🎧 Binaural

While the eastern states of Australia are probably sick and tired of a prolific over-abundance of thunderstorms and rain this year, thunderstorms are far too few and far between in this southern neck of the woods; or, more precisely, what storms there are almost always seem to bypass this town. I've been carefully watching approaching storms on weather satellite maps for several years, and it is utterly uncanny, beyond mere coincidence, that large storms approaching from the west or north-west typically tend to split and pass to the north and the south, diverging away from and skirting around the whole Adelaide region. Trying to record thunderstorms means driving long distances in the hope of intercepting them somewhere farther afield (but this does have the advantage of getting farther away from urban noise). Weary after work, I was in no mood for chasing storms. By a stroke of luck, however, parts of an oncoming storm did pass overhead, so I put the mics out on the balcony: once in the early evening, and then once again a little while before first light. (You may hear a persistent background sound throughout both of these recordings: this is our neighbour's back garden automatic watering system. It was left on all night long and well into the morning, even though it rained quite heavily through most of the night. Still, their air conditioner is much, much noisier, and so I can only be grateful for being dealt the lesser of two evils.)

This clip is from the early evening recording.

2022.11.09 Evening Storm above the Suburbs. Late Spring.

What does a sandy desert sound like? Spend a little time letting your ears become accustomed to the sparse soundscape and you'll start hearing a lot of detail. Long version at https://youtu.be/cRkK0bIfrAc

Soundscapes + field recordings

Ralph Buttler