Name: Munch Munch by Stijn Demeulenaere
Duration: 4 min 17 s
Description: Some drama going on here, something is eating something else. And I just happened to have a hydrophone (= underwater microphone) hanging next to it. Recording made at the coast of Belgium in the framework of my project "Zijlijn".

my word, that's right in my ear.....sounds (and feels) as if it's eating my ear worm!

Some drama going on here, something is eating something else. And I just happened to have a hydrophone (= underwater microphone) hanging next to it. Recording made at the coast of Belgium in the framework of my project "Zijlijn".

Munch Munch

Recorded a storm inside the cabin to the left on the picture. Did not bring heavy recording equipment to record outside. Some metal is making a noise, but the sound of the wind comes through quite nicely.

Microphones: DPA 4060
Pre-amp: DPA MMA-A
Recorder: iPhone 13 Pro with Harmonicdog MultiTrack DAW

Storm In A Cabin By The Glacier

Photosynthesis bubbles

In this narrow sound, where a river runs out in a fjord, the underwater soundscape is especially vibrant.

Different species of fish and crustaceans thrive in the streaming waters that bring a lot of food and nutrients. Some of the species in this recording are wrasse, cod, brown crab (Cancer pagurus).

Here, innermost in a fjord I was lucky to capture this soundscape without any anthropogenic sounds present. As sound travel faster and longer distance in water, a small boat miles away could permeate a recording.

Hydrophones: Aquarian H2A-XLR
Recorder: Zoom F3

Osstrupen

Sélection Field recording

Diego Véliz
Sound Desert – Agrovoices & FCALP
58’, autoproduction (Chili)

Cette suite en cinq tableaux, aussi divers que les territoires qu’ils évoquent, est une immersion dans les sons de Arica, une ville chilienne si-tuée aux confins du Pérou et de la Bolivie, au cœur du désert d’Atacama. Successivement, une promenade le long de la zone côtière, les ambiances et voix d’une gare routière internationale, un marché agricole, une zone humide en péril, et les friches d’une gare ferroviaire inoccupée. 

Diego Véliz s’est formé au cinéma documentaire au Chili, à Cuba et en Espagne. Il est l’auteur des courts métrages projetés dans plus de 40 festivals. Il vit et travaille dans la région tri-frontalière du Chili, du Pérou et de la Bolivie, où il développe des projets artistiques avec sa société de production Candelabro Films. "Sound Desert" est son premier projet d’art sonore.

Diego Véliz_Sound desert_FCALP

This is a long recording from a ridge near the ocean, so the surf is in the background, there is bird and animal activity at dusk and dawn, and a big thunderstorm rolls in.  The Yellow-Throated Toucan is very active, and the Scarlet Macaws, Tinamou, and Mantled Howler Monkeys are also calling at dusk. I removed one section of a few minutes where the rainfall was so heavy it started leaking through and hitting the mics but otherwise left this recording intact.  I used my Sennheiser Double MidSide system with a Sound Devices MixPre recorder.

Dusk To Dawn Costa Rica Osa Peninsula Coastal Forest Thunderstorm

Cold nights and warmer sunny days causes stress on thick lake ice. As the ice freezes and melts on a daily basis, periodic cracking and pinging sounds can be heard, sometimes quite dramatically. This track is edited from an all night recording made at a lake in south Estonia, a "greatest cracks" if you will, from more than 6 hours of material.

Cracking Lake Ice

My favorite recording location did not disappoint this evening in early march. I have heard about cod drumming, and suspect that this is it. However I wasn't prepared for this intense sound of several individual species making noise at the same time. 

There are some anthropophony in this recording. Mainly noise from small vessels, but some faint sounds from cars passing over a bridge 600 meters to the east.

Hydrophones - Aquarian H2AXLR
Recorder - Zoom F3

Intense sound from the deep

Track samples from the album "Spring in Padakõrve". Album tracks have been recorded during 2015-2018, in one of the natural forest areas in eastern Estonia. In these sample clips you can hear White-backed woodpecker, Greenish warbler and other birds in May morning, Ural owls and Roe deers in April evening. 

On album, all the tracks are blended into one continuous listening experience. Enjoy!

Spring Padakõrve

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Kevad Padakõrves - Spring in Padakõrve

Random found sound... two plastic tubes left over from some construction work provide a form for a resonant filter effect of passing traffic. Recorded with two Primo EM172 capsules and an Olympus LS-10 recorder.

Roadside Found Tubes

This is an excerpt from a longer recording from my permanent installation of aeolian wind harps. The installation consists of multiple towers, each with four strings and resonators, that stand in a field. The field is nearly an open space from all sides which provides optimal conditions for the harps to 'sing' from the movement of air. Special thanks to Janno Bergmann for the invitation and hosting me at Copper Leg residency in Northwest Estonia.

aeolian wond harps

Aeolian Windharp Installation At Copper Leg

Sound Artist and field recordist from Belgium. I'm researching the phenomenology of sound, or how we give meaning to sound, and the sonic characteristics of spaces and places. I make installations, soundscapes, concerts and do sound design for dance, theatre and film. On my soundcloud I mostly upload the pure recordings, but I do digress as well.

Munch Munch

Stijn Demeulenaere

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