Name: Saxophone on the Pont D'Arcole by soundlandscapes
Duration: 8 min 5 s
Description: A saxophone player on the Pont d'Arcole close to the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris. First he tunes the saxophone and then he begins to play.

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park lies in southwestern Uganda on the edge of the Rift Valley and is home to an estimated 320 mountain gorillas – roughly half of the world’s population, including several habituated groups, which can be tracked.

During my time observing the mountain gorillas we spent around 1 hour in the company of the Oruzogo group, led by Bakwate the dominant alpha Silver back.

In this recording we hear Bakwate vocalising with two females of the group. All three had been eating bark in an Omu Jeje tree just in front of where I was positioned when Bakwate decided he’d eaten enough. As he started to climb down, he vocalised to the females to say he’d eaten enough and was leaving the tree, but he wanted to be alone. The females replied with grunts saying “ok” and remained in the tree. Bakwate climbed down to the ground and walked right passed me (literally within a meter of where I was sitting). I had an incredible rush of adrenaline when he walked passed, albeit the Oruzogo gorilla group are very passive when humans are present.

This was one of the most memorable moments of my trip to Uganda.

Photo courtesy of Anne Zak (http://www.annezakrzewski.de/)

Mountain Gorilla Vocalisations - Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

All recordings are the work of Nick Spradlin. Various performers.

Audio Recording Samples 2015

Swanee

Thunderstorm over Plouezoch, Brittany, September 2016. Recorded with two DPA 4060. To be listened to with headphones, and patience.

Thunderstorm over Brittany

A variety of chants* from an anti-Trump protest in Minneapolis on November 10, 2016. What's interesting about these is the snippets of conversation captured in-between chants.

*"Donald Trump has got to go," "F*ck white supremacy," "Pussy grabs back," "Not my president," "We're here, we're queer, f*ck Donald Trump," "Love trumps hate," "We are on the right side of history," and "My body my choice (her body, her choice)."

Trump Protest, Minneapolis, MN

This recording features the famous bells of Notre-Dame de Paris as they rang out before the daily mass. 

Recorded 04/03/2017
Recorded using 2 DPA 4060s, Sound Devices Mix Pre D & Sony PCM D-100.

Church Bells - Notre-Dame de Paris, France

In April/May 2017 I spent two weeks cycle touring around Southern France and Northern Spain with my father. Having cycled over the Pyrenees and into Spain, we followed the mountains west. I had prepared a route but we noticed some smaller roads that stayed closer to the mountains. The road slowly turned from decent B road, to farm road, to dirt track. Sure enough we found ourselves truly cycling the camino de santiago (on our road bikes whats more) with not another soul in sight. I made this recording on our mid-afternoon pause as we sat down amongst the arid landscape and appreciated the views. We followed the camino for another 20km of tough semi-offroad biking, thankfully no punctures were had.

Northern Spain - Sounds of the camino de santiago

a sweet summer morning in the brindabella ranges
the ancient land of the ngunnawal, walgalu and djimantan people
mics above, hydrophones amongst the gently moving pebbles below
if you listen carefully you may hear kangaroo's gently grazing
january, 2017

A summer morning in the Australian Alps

Soundscape / Paysage sonore
Date of the recording: 15-8-2004
Saint-Valery-sur-Somme - France
https://goo.gl/maps/qNa7fnCkQWE2
Steam locomotive
Locomotive à vapeur
Haine-Saint-Pierre 130T n°15
Recorder: Marantz PMD670 + Sennheiser ME80 microphone
Mono

Train1 disquiet0517

Soundscape / Paysage sonore
Date of the recording: 15-8-2004
Saint-Valery-sur-Somme - France
https://goo.gl/maps/qNa7fnCkQWE2
Inside the train
Train - intérieur
Recorder: Marantz PMD670 + Sennheiser ME80 microphone
Mono

Train2

A saxophone player on the Pont d'Arcole close to the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris. First he tunes the saxophone and then he begins to play.

Saxophone on the Pont D'Arcole

Suonn' by La Cosa Preziosa (1'26") 
Experimental interpretation of a traditional Southern Italian lullaby, feat. original field recordings and spoken word from the Basilicata region, Italy.

Suonn'

I am Des Coulam and I live in Paris.
 
My work involves capturing and archiving the everyday sounds of Paris in, as far as I know, a more comprehensive way than it’s been done before. 
 
I describe myself as a flaneur, endlessly walking the streets of Paris, observing through active listening and, in the words of Robert Doisneau, one of the great twentieth-century Parisian street photographers, capturing “that gratuitous, never-ending show for which no ticket is needed.”  And it is from the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Parisian street photographers that I take my inspiration to do the 

For most of our history we have used artefacts, architecture, pictures and words to create a vision of our past. It’s only in the last thirty seconds or so on our historical clock that we have been able to capture and record sound. Almost all our sonic heritage has passed by unrecorded. That is why I, and many others, are dedicated to recording and archiving the sounds around us so that future generations will have the sounds of our time to explore, to study and to enjoy.


Saxophone on the Pont D'Arcole

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