Fire is an element that has shaped the Australian landscape for thousands of years – a tool of management used by nature and humans. Phragmites reedbeds of the Macquarie Marshes become tinder during dry periods, susceptible to dry summer storms. It only takes one strike for fire to take hold, smouldering quietly until the flames gain energy. On a Saturday afternoon in late October 2019, a fire raged across the Northern Nature Reserve of the Marshes, burning 3,000 hectares before being brought under control the following morning. If there’s follow-up rain or sub-surface moisture, the reeds will come back. Some of the old river red gums flanking the reedbeds weren’t so lucky – it’d been one drought too many for them.

Fire in the Marshes

recorded by somewhere in Akiruno city 2014

habitat (excerpt)

Photosynthesis bubbles

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Song of Lake Akan 20230101

Cricket song in winter

drawing the sky (excerpt)

colony #14

Recorded in the River Wensum next to the New Mills Norwich Sluice Monitoring Station, 25th June 2020. 

A handmade mono hydrophone connected to a Zoom H4n Recorder was utilised.

Mono Hydrophone Field Recording - River Wensum, Norwich

A hydrophone was placed inside a full water butt in our garden, this recording documents turning the tap on and filling a water can, 15th July 2020.

A handmade mono hydrophone connected to a Zoom H4n Recorder was utilised.

Mono Hydrophone Field Recording - Water Butt

Wind through trees in a local wood with gusts at over 50MPH.Rode NT55 Matched Pair into Tascam DR-680. This is a raw sound only cut in length from a 10 minute take and fade in and out added. Otherwise untouched.

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Windy Day in May (No Edit)

Sound diary, Field recording
Listen to the rest on YouTube Podcast.

Satoshi Sugiyama creates handmade books and music with his family in the small studio “Bonami” in Manazuru, Japan. He learned letterpress printing, hand-binding and playing the guitar on his own.
6 books and 3 music albums were released by Bonami so far.

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Sound Diary in MANAZURU 日々の音