Congrats on the award! Great recording :)

great recording robert! i have to be a bit of a nerd and mention that those definitely aren't cicada's in the background, either mole crickets or more likely, katydids

Excellent recording Robert. So much depth and variety with mostly non tonal content! What time of the year was this recorded?

brillant recording - keep coming back to this. what time of the year was this recorded?

This is a second recording made in 2020 of the fallow deer 'lek'. This happens around in the second half of October in the UK. The males tend to congregate in in small groups or mating territories where they exhibit lekking behaviours such as sticking to particular 'stands' where they will repeating grunt and bellow.

This recording was made with a Sony M10 and a spaced pair of clippy EM172s. The mics were placed where I had observed a large group of rutting males the night before.

PS DEER MALEGRUNTS MULTIPLE VERYCLOSE MOVEMENTACROSSSTEREOFIELD M10

A pair of juvenile Long-Eared Owls calling out from the top of a tall pine tree along the Plateau De Montselgues in Ardeche. This was recorded at approximately 22h00 on a windy mid-May evening. 

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s (ORTF)
12.05.2021

Thanks to Grégory Chamming's & Olivier Pichard for help identifying the species.
Photo courtesy of Hedera Baltica (Creative Commons)

Juvenile Long-Eared Owls - Plateau De Montselgues, Ardeche, France

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

Sample from the 83 minute album "Borneo: Night Symphony".

Dreamy nocturnal soundscape from Borneo's rainforest featuring the unique calls of Bornean Treehole Frogs.

Full album available for download from wildambience.com/albums/borneo-night-symphony/

Borneo: Night Symphony

Borneo: Night Symphony - Album Sample

Olympic Dream by @geraldine-kwik, is the lead track, from the forthcoming compilation to celebrate Piano Day, with The 88 Notes series releases.

Available on CD & Digital : https://music.imusician.pro/a/2XFT3dTB/
The 88 Notes - Series 2 released on March 29, 2023

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Premiered on Ad Adstra Electronic Radio on March 25 // 21:00 CET - 4PM EST  https://www.adastra-radio.com
Event https://ra.co/events/1677827

Full review thanks to Igloo Magazine https://igloomag.com/reviews/the-88-notes-series-2-ecu

ECU continue to support resident talents alongside international artists from numerous countries. Crossing genres, paths, and people not only brings people, communities and landscapes to life, but it also prompts personal and moral reflections, and musical expressions. Today artists are (no particular order): 

Infinite scale - Hold // https://infinitescale.bandcamp.com/music 
Florian Förster - ​​4 Uhr Tee  // https://florianfoerster.bandcamp.com/
Ruxpin - Rapla  // https://ruxpin.bandcamp.com/music 
Coppé - Sm:)e  // https://mangoandsweetrice.bandcamp.com
Mei - Entreluire La Fugitive  // https://closetomei.bandcamp.com
Sergio Mariani - Titan Moon Of Frozen  // https://sergiomariani.bandcamp.com/music
Mikromatique - Heimþrá // https://mikromatique.bandcamp.com
Lorenz Weber - the earth beats // https://lorenzweber.bandcamp.com
Géraldine Kwik - Olympic Dream  // https://geraldinekwik.bandcamp.com
Bistro Boy - Handan Undralands (for dad) // https://bistroboy.bandcamp.com 
X.U.L - Bluebird  // https://xulmusic.bandcamp.com
aAirial - Beneath the Mist  // https://aairial.bandcamp.com 
Anam Gu Anam - Three Colors Moon // https://anamguanam1.bandcamp.com
Oscar Carmona - Otoño  // https://oscarcarmona.bandcamp.com 
Sunken Foal - Hold Your Fire  // https://countersunk.bandcamp.com 
Marie Awadis - Music with motion I (ft. Evgeny Ganeev) https://youtu.be/z-h_BBDYwpo 

#pianoday2023 Piano Day Worldwide Celebration
https://www.pianoday.org

The 88 Notes - series 2

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Géraldine Kwik - Olympic Dream - The 88 Notes (Series 2) [ECU010]

I visited Sri Lanka's Sinharaja rainforest during the monsoon season with the hope of recording some of it’s unique wildlife, but the torrential rain forced me to spend most of my time sheltering inside a lodge! However on the final morning of my stay the rain eased for a few hours and I had a brief opportunity to record the sounds you hear on this album.

The full 65 minute, 6 track album is downloadable from https://wildambience.com/albums/storm-in-sinharaja/

Storm in Sinharaja

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Album: Storm in Sinharaja (Recorded in Sri Lanka)

This entry won the Habitat section in the 2015 WSRS Recording Competition. It was also awarded the Silver Fox Trophy for best recording. 

These 2-minutes were selected from a 2-hour recording, made with a pair of MKH406’s arranged ORTF in a homemade wind cage placed on a tripod in the reed bed. The recorder used was a Fostex FR-2LE. 

The marsh was at Barrage Imi-N-Laârba, near the town of Aït Ouri, 50km from Marrakesh. As well as crickets, the main species heard are the deeper-voiced Berber Toads (Amietophrynus mauritanicus), Sahara Frog (Pelophyllax saharicus) and the rasping sounds of Mediterranean Tree Frogs (Hyla meridionalis).


Evening at a Moroccan Marsh

A solo piano piece that explores the space between 2 realms.

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http://jeffchipman.bandcamp.com/track/threshold
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Threshold

Sionskoe Lake

"Black-east from the crow" - cold, dry east wind (Galloway) / stone shed (West Cornwall)

Music by Bethan Kellough
Artwork by Gregory Euclide

Place Language is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary.

The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound.

More info: stationarytravels.wordpress.com/place-language/

Evening at a Moroccan Marsh

Robert Malpas

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