World has slowed down. 
Hidden beneath a skin of fear.

All Silver was created during the first days of the Corona shutdown.
Made with passion and modular synths.

Sound and artwork by Thomas Breuer

All Silver

all silver

Sound of the rain recorded at Loch Achilty, Highland.  3 October, 2020.

Two MKH8040 mics in ORTF were positioned under a rain shield, facing an arm of the loch and some broad-leafed trees.

Loch Achilty Rain

Wednesday night, playing with loops, one seven beats long, the other eight, then layering occasional accent notes. Fade in and out just turning the knob on the amp once the loops were left to their looping. Recorded to phone put in front of the amp. Not sure why the eight-beat loop is more prominent than the seven-beat one, except perhaps that it's in 4/4 so the brain registers it more easily. Also not sure about that one hiccup at :46 seconds. Something suddenly went out of alignment and then came just as suddenly back into alignment. The bit at the very end isn't a tape cassette stopping. It just sounds like that.

Wednesday Loops

A short row from the shoreline through ices to free water near Trolloori reef in Makholma on a silent and windless day 25/12/2020.  (Shortened and the passage through ices lowered with 3 dB.)

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/201226/

(MKH8020 ab80cm in the stern, SD702, 24/48, flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

A quiet row - 26/12/2020 - Trolloori Reef

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left ashore

halF stereO [disquiet0472] - 85 bpm

Elephants, hoofed mammals, big cats, hyenas, birds, they all come to the waterhole to drink. If you want to see, hear or study wildlife, waterholes are the place to be.  Longer soundscape at https://youtu.be/LOKnQziT0ug

African Wildlife At Waterhole

From an over night recording with a blizzard (with gale force gusts) inside a fisherman's hut in the midnight by Makholma shore. In the first minute there's Whooper Swans shouting far in the background. Next day   most of them was gone. In the morning the microphones where covered with snow, as there was some gap under the roof.

Updating www.rupuranta.net

(MKH8020 ab80cm, MixPre3 32>24, no processing, 24/48 flac)

Winter Night - 11/1/2021 - Inside a Fisherman's Hut

Impulsive Habitat, 2014.

The material of this work is based on a static recording: I installed a microphone under the roof of my father's house in a small village in Alsace (France) for one year. Each day, I recorded one minute of sound on the hour at four different intervals: midnight, morning, noon and evening. I subsequently selected one recording per week for each of the intervals.
These (untreated) recordings were then sewn together in four different tracks, one for each time of day, spanning the course of a year. This results in a cyclical movement consisting of four different time-lapse sequences that trace the entirety of a year in one place.

A Year's Hours Behind my Father's House (Excerpt: Midnight, from May to September)

Red Rock Gorge Camp Ground in Sundown National Park, Queensland, beside the small dam at the Northern end, around midnight. Zoom F6, Rode NT55-MP with cardioid capsules, Rycote BBGs with wind jammers, ORTF. Three species of frog can be heard calling. I think they are: Striped Marsh Frog (Limnodynastes peronii, pok, ..., pok, ....), Smooth Toadlet (Uperoleia laevigata, creeek), and Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog (Litoria fallax, buzz like running a nail down a comb).

RRGCG 3 Species

180515 19:03 Cuckoo

This is a compilation from an over night recording in Kirpakka woods with 15 small cracks in chronological order and as last a bigger bang from one long recording earlier in february.

I had the microphones out in Kirpakka small preservation area over night (from sunset to midday) during the coldest days when temp went down to -20C.  There was practically no sign of life except some road noise and machines from a nearby farm.  Daytime there were a few Crows and two Ravens, one Great Spotted Woodpecker and in early night the distant call of a Tengman's Owl.  

One recording of 18 hours earlier didn't result in any sound of life except a very weak Crow at 11 am. and the big crack in the end of this recording.

There seems to be a great loss of tits and crossbills in Finnish forests today.

But the trees were keeping a good amount of cracks and pops, specially in the early night when the temperature change was as fastest. 

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/210215/

(MKH8020ab80cm, MixPre 32>24/48, no processing, +3dB, flac)

180515 19:03 Cuckoo

silent spot

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