Early morning by little Rengaskari Reef, less than a mile from our shore. This is an excerpt from an over night recording. Had to do a low cut as there's been some low rumble from an unknown source that has affected all nightly recordings of this spring from the sea side. (and is still audible)
Birds: Common Eider, Greylag Goose, Barnacle Goose, Mew Gull

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(MKH8020 ab80cm, MixPre II 32>24, Flac)

Morning by Rengaskari Reef - 20/4/2021 - Makholma Finland

In the morning of the last day of July, as I was about to enter the main door of an aged care nursing  home, I had to stop and step aside to make way respectfully for a trolley bearing a deceased person draped completely with deep red cloth. I do not know who they were - their name, gender, nationality, story... The body was borne into a nondescript white van.

Later, that evening, while editing and composing some field recordings for a quite different work, this particular conjunction of layers happened to align  itself, as if of its own accord, and I recalled my meeting with an unseen deceased body, neatly draped in deep red cloth, earlier that day. For that person, for every such person, I wanted to offer this sound-parable, as an aesthetic gesture of respect, mourning, but also of celebration, a confident casting and sowing of thoughts towards the all-encompassing horizon of infinity.

"Among the Seven Wise Women, one woman said, 'Sisters, you and I should not go to scenic parks to partake of worldly entertainments... Instead, let's go together to enjoy the charnel grounds.' The other women said, 'That place is full of decaying corpses. What is such a place good for?' The first woman said, 'Sisters, just go. Very good things are there.' When they arrived in the forest, the woman pointed to a corpse and said to the other women, 'The corpse is here; where has the person gone?' The women witnessed the truth and realized the way." (Dōgen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Kōroku, translated by Taigen Dan Leighton and Shohaku Okumura, Boston: Wisdom Publications 2004, p. 120)

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2021.08.01 Parable the Second: Passage. (Παραβολὴ ἡ Δεύτερη• Πέρασμα.)

My first serious attempt to gather ambiences from nature. These were recorded in late May & early June 2020 at a tree farm in southwestern Wisconsin, USA. 

I've left aircraft or other vehicle sounds in at times as there's precious little silence left in the world.

2020 Tree Farm - 06 Peters Farm Mark Stand Bp4025

Enäjärvi is a small lake near town Pori only one mile from the Sea. The lake is tightly between a highway and a railway and the traffic noise is apparent even night time. This was the first place for an inland colony of Great Cormorants in Finland. Today there’s hundred of nests in two small islets in the middle of the lake. 

 I made an over night recording and this starts from 04.40 in the morning, half an hour before sun rise with the Cormorants just being active, though not as most. Though the lake was still mostly frozen the Cormorants have been more than two weeks there. This is the most silent moment of the night of traffic, still there’s a train passing.

The train is carrying coal (or anthracite) from Novosibirsk in Russia, a distance of 4000 km.  Each train is making two weeks or longer time on the rails to Tahkoluoto Port on the Finnish West Coast.  From there the coal is shipped rounding Cape Hope to Bangladesh. Normally there's  2-3 trains passing daily in spite of the sanction policy against Russia. 

Listen with headphones.

 http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/220421/

(AT4022 ab60cm MixPre2 32>24/48 no processing Flac)

Cormorant Night - 21/4/2022 - Enajarvi Finland

Of all my recordings at Whiritoa, this one reminds me the most of what it sounded like sitting on the deck of my friends beach house drinking a cool beer on a hot summers night..

Location on google maps: http://goo.gl/QgGmwX

Except from the single, Whiritoa Evening available at http://naturesounds.co.nz
Just to confirm: one mic, one location. This is a single "take" recording.

Whiritoa Evening

3.Andante (G Minor, Ending In G Major) MENDEL fin

1. Andante – Allegro Con Fuoco (D Major – D Minor) MENDEL fin

2. Fêtes Animé Et Très Rythmé 51218

A short binaural recording of a small flee market in Berlin, too early to be packed, so quite a relaxed atmosphere.
Recorded with Luhd binaural mics and a Zoom F1 recorder. No post, just slighthly cropped at the beginning and the end.

Flohmarkt

[Quarantine Soundscapes #25] Lake Superior is more like an inland sea than a lake by its size and moods. It's shore ranges from hard rock outcroppings, sandy beaches, and cliff faces. Here are rough waters on an outcropping.
#fieldrecording
Listen:

[#25] Lake Superior Rough Waves

(Best listened to with good quality headphones with a flat frequency response.)

Recorded on land of the Meru and Danggali peoples, which is now a private protected area, purchased from pastoral lease in 1997 by BirdLife Australia (see https://www.gluepot.org/). The Reserve is also part of the Riverland Biosphere Reserve and the Riverland Mallee Important Bird Area.

Track image credit: Kym Nicolson, https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/60529363, under (CC BY) license. 28th November 2019, Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.

2020 Tree Farm - 06 Peters Farm Mark Stand Bp4025

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