I am reuniting with @georgevlad and @trexbeverly to raise money for environmental causes this holiday season. The three of us have a deep love of nature and actively work to conserve natural soundscapes through our field recording. Together, we have raised $13,000 over the years from our annual giveaway contest. We are each donating some of our recordings as a prize to encourage donations. 
I am donating a custom selection of mastered bird, insect, mammal, and amphibian sounds and select soundscapes from the Pacific Northwest, Costa Rica, Alaska, Peru, and more selected from my personal library. These sounds are unavailable commercially and are normally packaged in custom libraries and sound design projects.
More than 45 bird species across 19 families, several species of cricket, katydid, ad cicada species, Rockies (Wapiti) and Olympic Elk, Douglas Pine Squirrels, Coyotes, Pacific Chorus Frogs, American Bullfrogs, Leopard Frogs, and more have been mastered and edited to best represent the individual species and reflect the variety of life found in their home territories in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. These valuable recordings are not immersive soundscapes but single-species sounds, ready to be dropped into your project with minimal preparation. Whenever possible, both processed and unprocessed versions of each species are included.
A select set of soundscapes from around the Pacific Northwest includes active and quiet sessions, dawn and dusk choruses, and may be stereo or quad depending on the situation.
All proceeds will go to benefit three different charities. My share will go to Conservation Northwest, www.conservationnw.org/, an organization with a mission to protect wildlands, connect habitats, and restore wildlife throughout the Pacific Northwest from the Washington Coast to the British Columbia Rockies.
Contribute at Thomas' online shop here: https://thomasrexbeverly.com/products/the-soundscape-fund-2025

please note: the following playlist is not fully representative of this year's reward as I just toss tracks on SoundCloud in a haphazard fashion as I feel like it. Names and select tracks may change in order to provide the best selection I can while also providing detailed metadata fully compatible with UCS 8.x. I'll update the playlist over the next week as more tracks are prepared. Happy listening and good luck!

The Soundscape Fund 2025

The Soundscape Fund 2025 Preview - Soundscapes

I am reuniting with @georgevlad and @trexbeverly to raise money for environmental causes this holiday season. The three of us have a deep love of nature and actively work to conserve natural soundscapes through our field recording. Together, we have raised $13,000 over the years from our annual giveaway contest. We are each donating some of our recordings as a prize to encourage donations. 
I am donating a custom selection of mastered bird, insect, mammal, and amphibian sounds and select soundscapes from the Pacific Northwest, Costa Rica, Alaska, Peru, and more selected from my personal library. These sounds are unavailable commercially and are normally packaged in custom libraries and sound design projects.
More than 45 bird species across 19 families, several species of cricket, katydid, ad cicada species, Rockies (Wapiti) and Olympic Elk, Douglas Pine Squirrels, Coyotes, Pacific Chorus Frogs, American Bullfrogs, Leopard Frogs, and more have been mastered and edited to best represent the individual species and reflect the variety of life found in their home territories in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. These valuable recordings are not immersive soundscapes but single-species sounds, ready to be dropped into your project with minimal preparation. Whenever possible, both processed and unprocessed versions of each species are included.
A select set of soundscapes from around the Pacific Northwest includes active and quiet sessions, dawn and dusk choruses, and may be stereo or quad depending on the situation.
All proceeds will go to benefit three different charities. My share will go to Conservation Northwest, www.conservationnw.org/, an organization with a mission to protect wildlands, connect habitats, and restore wildlife throughout the Pacific Northwest from the Washington Coast to the British Columbia Rockies.
Contribute at Thomas' online shop here: https://thomasrexbeverly.com/products/the-soundscape-fund-2025

please note: the following playlist is not fully representative of this year's reward as I just toss tracks on SoundCloud in a haphazard fashion as I feel like it. Names and select tracks may change in order to provide the best selection I can while also providing detailed metadata fully compatible with UCS 8.x. I'll update the playlist over the next week as more tracks are prepared. Happy listening and good luck!

Bird Species in this library (and heard in this preview) may include:
American Goldfinch
American Robin
Barred Owl
Black-capped Chickadee
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Brewer's Blackbird
Brewer's Sparrow
Brown Creeper
Brown Thrasher
Canyon Wren
Chipping Sparrow
Cliff Swallow
Common Loon
Common Nighthawk
Common Poorwill
Common Raven
Dark-eyed Junco
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
Hutton's Vireo
Marsh Wren
Mourning Dove
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Pacific Wren
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Red-winged Blackbird
Rock Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruffed Grouse
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Spotted Towhee
Steller's Jay
Swainson's Thrush
Tree Swallow
Varied Thrush
Western Meadowlark
Western Wood-pewee
White-crowned Sparrow
Willow Flycatcher
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-headed Blackbird

The Soundscape Fund 2025 Preview - Northwest Voices

Colockum Pass, Naneum Reserve, Kittitas County, WA, rare tunderstorm booms on the eastern slope of Cascade Mountains, dry thunder, 2019-08-10

Edited for time. Thunderstorms are pretty long.

Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest in Washington, WA, United States

Thunder Dry Rolling Mountain Booms

Colockum GMU, Kittitas Country, WA, midnight rain in a dry raiparian creek, dry scrub land surrounds

Recorded in the Beautiful Pacific Northwest

Northwest Soundscapes

Rain on Scrubland

Still air in a cool late Spring night in a temperate deciduous forest, quiet air broken only by a calling Barred Owl, Strix varia, echoing through the forest, mastered stereo mixdown from original quad Tree Ears recording with UsiPro for the front and a Clippy EM272 pair for the rear

This is a very still, very quiet recording. In person you would not be able to detect even the still air. If you hear a bare hint of it in your speakers be careful not to turn up your volume as the owl will be much, much louder.

Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest in Washington, United States

AMBForst Deciduous Forest Quiet Still Night With Owl

A powerful thunderstorm moves in across the swamp. Deep booming thunder drives the insects, birds, and frogs to seek shelter. Sheets of rain whip the trees and understory plants. Hard thunderous cracks mingle with a steady downpour. This is the power of the sky when it meets the Earth.

Summer Thunderstorm 3 of 4 - Powerful cracks of thunder and sheets of rain, birds and insects test the air

Field Recordist / Sound designer
Shhhhh. Listening to nature.

To license sounds or for all other inquiries: info@andymartinsound.com

#naturesound #naturesoundscape #fieldrecording #naturesounds #savequiet #listentonature #soundscape

Summer Thunderstorm 3 of 4 - Powerful cracks of thunder and sheets of rain, birds and insects test the air

Andy Martin, Field Recordist