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Check out this instrumental preview of my new song "Paper Airplanes"! 

Paper Airplanes (instrumental preview)

Wolves hunt down and kill their prey. A Wild boar in this case. You can also hear Red Deer.
(Vargar jagar vildsvin och dödar ett av dom).

Here is the story before the recording starts.

I was out photographing/recording. It was late, but the full moon helped lighting up my surroundings. I had the recorder in rec/pause and my headphones on, so all sounds around me was amplified like I usually have. Since I was trying to photograph animals. I was camouflaged. I rarely use a hide. Suddenly I heard that the ducks, lapwings and other birds to the left of me, flew up in the air worried about something. I looked in that direction with my binocular and then I saw two wolves coming in my direction. They were about 200m from me. The female (smaller) was about 50m ahead of the male. She stopped when she was about 40m from me a little to the left. She probably “sensed” that I was there… She sat down and looked around. The male wolf came straight at me since he was to the right of the female from my view. He stopped at about 30m from me. He stared at me or in my direction for 5 minutes… I was leaning to the left in a not so comfort position so I said to myself, please go now… my back hurts, but he didn’t. Instead, he lay down in the grass… and he continued staring at me (or my not camouflaged mic). I was completely still and after a few minutes he started to look around instead. The female passed him and lay down further away to the right of me. After 10-15 minutes he joined her. They changed positions a few times and seemed to be in no hurry. Then the female started to target a red deer bull. She crawled on her stomach closer and closer. The male followed about 30m behind her. She got closer and closer and when she had about 50m left to the red deer she got in to full attack. The male wolf followed and they both attacked the red deer bull. The deer defended himself really well with his big horns. He attacked the wolves so they had to back off a few times. The wolves continued their attack from two directions for a while, but then they gave up and lay down in the grass. After a while they tried again, but the deer still defended himself really well. He didn’t make the mistake to try and run. They gave up again and the walked away to the edge of the field and lay down just inside the forest. After about 20 minutes I heard a familiar sound. Wild boar heard was incoming…

Here my posted recording at soundcloud starts, since there was just breathing sounds and sounds when wolves and deer move in the grass previously, so not much to listen to.

Wolves' wild boar hunting (Canis lupus lupus)

Some tracks from me and the lads.. happy times. Me, Foss Paterson, Davey Paton, Neil Hay, John Henderson, Kevin Wilkinson, Taj Wyzgowski.. in various configs. 

11 Celidh Funk

Sounds European but Its actually Bath, UK on a sunny weekday morning. Wear headphones for a more immersive experience.

City square ambience with classical guitar (Binaural)

"Ocean Of Stars" by Tom Cooney (c)2016 TomCooneyMusic

Grab your headphones and take a listen to a variety of different sounding race cars.    Post production included compressing the time between vehicle passes which makes it sound like they were racing much closer together.  All tracks normalized for the loudest vehicle to preserve the relative sound levels between cars.  Cars in order of apperance are:
Toyota MR2
BMW M3 6-cylinder
Mustang 4.6 Litre super-charged
V8 powered Porsche 914
WRX
Corvette
Honda s2000 turbo.

None of the vehicles recorded here are considered stock.  

Duryea Hillclimb Auto Race 2016 Sampler

Helen O'Keefe

"Dancing on the Moon" (c) TomCooneyMusic, is a jazz ballad about magic by the riverside.  It hints of a jazz ballad from decades past, but sounds fresh today. 
- Tom Cooney, songwriter, guitar, vocals.
- Gene Galligan, keyboards
- Steve Ball, Sight snd Sound Studios, audio engineer

"Dancing on the Moon" Tom Cooney with Gene Galligan (c)TomCooneyMusic

Recorded at the approach end of the Reading Air Show with a Jecklin Disk using two Audio-Technica AT4022 microphones and a Sound Devices 702 recorder.  This is a rare opportunity to hear B-29 bomber performing a high speed low-altitude fly-over.  

This is very close to what it must have sounded like to the Allied prisoners of war who were starving at the Omori prison camp in Tokyo, when suddenly a B-29 flew low over the camp.  Many spirits were revived on that day for sure.

Recording levels were set with minimal gain in order to hopefully eliminate any clipping.  The sound is best heard with wide-range monitors turned up slightly.  If the lapels on your shirt flap during the fly-over you have the sound level set about right. 

Rare B-29 Superfortress bomber FiFi performs a high speed low altitude flyover, AT4022, Jecklin disk

A musician and recording enthusiast, I'll direct my microphones at musical performances, nature soundscapes, and man-made sounds alike.  Mixing, tracking, and Sound for Video services at our discretion or by invitation.

Duryea Hillclimb Auto Race 2016 Sampler

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