(Best listened to with good quality headphones, in a quiet environment, at low to mid volume. Be warned: the dynamics occasionally explode, particularly in the form of Black-winged Currawongs.)

This recording is an early result of experimenting with a pair of omnidirectional and a pair of supercardioid microphones in parallel. The omnis absorb the environing atmospheric ambience, the supercardioids capture a selective and narrower focus of detail. (No processing.)

2023.01.08 Awakening Pine Forest. First Light. Summer.

MIST (produced, as always, by lil hummus himself)

A recording made between first light and sunrise in a plantation pine forest adjacent to the Western River Wilderness Protection Area near the northern-western coast of Kangaroo Island. The pine forest was incinerated during the unprecedently severe 'Black Summer' bushfires of 2019-2020. Five years later, natural regrowth from surviving pine seeds and eucalyptus seeds is surging from the soil around the charred trunks of the still-standing burnt-out forest. Young pines and eucalypts have grown above human head height and densely pack the understory of the much taller dead pine trees, which creak, knock and crack in the wind. The scenery and soundscape of the forest in the dawn twilight was at once eerie, mysterious and magical; suffused with the dark, muted sound of the nearby coastline and the gentle wind stirring the forest, but also embroidered with the occasionally clear and bright, but more often soft and distant, calls of bird species such as the Australian Magpie, Common Bronzewing, Brown Thornbill (ssp. zietzi*), Crescent Honeyeater, Crimson Rosella (ssp. melanoptera*), Grey Currawong (ssp. halmaturina*), Grey Fantail, Grey Shrike-thrush, Little Wattlebird (ssp. halmaturina*), Red Wattlebird (ssp. clelandii*), and Superb Fairy-wren (ssp. ashbyi*); and the gentle hopping and rustling of Tamar Wallabies fossicking through the forest, feeding on sprouting grasses and the supple leaves of young trees. It's a moderately long recording, but with deep listening at a quiet time, and in a mindful frame of mind, (and through good quality headphones or speakers,) it can provide an engaging, immersive, intriguing, and informative experience. [*Note: these sub-species are unique to Kangaroo Island, having evolved during its long period of isolation from the mainland. There are sixteen local endemic sub-species in total.]

2024.12.09 Dawn in a Burnt-out Pine Forest. Early Summer.

Clammyclams x Ryota Nozaki

from "Winter Flower Reimagined"

Clams Casino, Jazztronik - Pine Forest

For background information, please see the playlist description at https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/sets/2022-10-16-night-listening-coastal-pine-forest.

Night Listening: Pine Forest. 1-6. Continuous Version.

Step into the pines and let the music take you home.
“Love in the Pines” blends alternative rock, R&B, country, and symphonic pop for a sound that’s as unique as it is heartfelt. This is a song for late nights, longing hearts, and dreamers in search of a place to belong.

Let the energetic drums, lush harmonies, and bittersweet lyrics light your way through the midnight forest.
Produced by Soul Dust — where music meets emotion.

"Love is a journey, and we all have a story that echoes through the pines... 🌌
✨ Which part of ‘Love in the Pines’ speaks to your heart the most?

Drop your thoughts below – your voice completes this tune."



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[New Hit] Love In the Pines | Midnight Whiskey | Soul Dust Production

Sitting on a blanket on moist grass in a clearing between two forests.
The pine forest is behind, the eucalypt forest is in front.
Left is east, right is west.
The sounds from in front blend with those from behind, both to the left and to the right.
The variable breeze pervades throughout.
The sky above is ever so gradually lightening, and all around, beings are awakening.
Like forever, the natural mystery of Mind is happening.

(From an ongoing series of recent exploratory field recordings with a mid-side rig, this one with cardioid mid microphone. This track is an excerpt from a longer recording.)

2025.11.02 A Dawn between Two Forests. Spring.

𝔈𝔵𝔭𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔢𝔯, 𝔞𝔰 𝔞𝔫 𝔈𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔱, 𝔞 𝔐𝔬𝔡𝔢, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔞 𝔇𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔅𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔤.

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