The human tone engages with the secret world of pond sounds. The orchestra, surely, is complete. It certainly doesn’t need me. But I take it as a place from which to begin. Interspecies musicians want to ensnare music out of the surrounding sounds.

This soundworld is busy, beating, thrumming, pulsing, all on its own without any transformations. This is a single piece that convinces me that playing along with ponds is a proven thing. Yes it does work. So much is going on beneath the water. Its bustle implores me to slow down, relax, get lyrical for once.

This is a magical sound forest right around you, usually ignored. Drop the hydrophone down, plug in, hear it for yourself, imagine what you want to add to such a thing.

This is the pond of ponds.

Little Pond Beasts With Clarinet

Each individual Magicicada tredecim makes a single "Phaaaaroooah!" sound.  Millions of them together turn into a forest-wide drone.  Starting with just one insect singing, I demonstrate how this happens by repeating the sound unevenly, over and over again using uneven grain delays.

One 13-year cicada turned into many

The third year in a row a pair of Blyth's Reed Warblers will nest at Salsta Castle, just north of Uppsala. Always a pleasure to record with all its imitations. At least 15 species are discernible in this recording: Chaffinch, House Martin, White Wagtail, Linnet, Common Swift, Goldfinch, Bluethroat, Blackbird, Yellow Wagtail, Blue Tit, Redstart, Fieldfare, Barn Swallow, Wheatear and Redwing. Salsta, May 29, 2023.

Blyth's Reed Warbler - the master mimic!

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Two Thrush Nightingales in song.  Recorded at night beginning at 2.05am on the 20th of May 2013, in Soomaa National Park, Estonia.  This is the third of three recordings.  Some months ago I uploaded this same recording but a shorter version in 44khz/16bit, this recording is the full-length 48Khz/24Bit version.  Equipment; A matched pair of Sennheiser MKH8020 microphones, a Sound Devices MixPre microphone pre-amp and a Marantz PMD661 solid state recorder.
Recording 2502.
To help you find my other albums, here is a list of the names of the albums as sound cloud is not structured in such a way as to make it easy to find material that is a long way down or at the bottom of the page, so it is easier to search for the albums if you know their names, here is a list.
Put any of these names in the search bar and press enter.  
Central America . . . Belize.
Garden of songs.  	Forest Home.	  Out of the blue.
Jungle report.	Wild enough.	  Na Luum Ca - revisited.

South America . . . Brazil.
Xixuau   (2 disc production).
South America . . . Guyana.
Karanambu.	   Iwokrama.
South America . . . Peru   (4 disc production).
Otorongo.     	  Tahuayo. 
Europe . . . Finland.
Natures Song.	  At the blue moment.
Europe . . . Estonia.
Soomaa.
Europe . . . Wales / Ireland.
Morning Birds 3.	
Europe . . . Ireland.
Morning Birds 1 and 2.	  The joy of birdsong.	  Birds of the great Saltee.   Saltee Revisited.		Songs of silence.		Aubade.
More Suburban Birds.		 Suburban Birds (This one was never uploaded to sound cloud).

2 Thrush Nightingales - The 48khz/24Bit version

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This innovative CD represents a dialogue between pianist Fábio Caramuru’s music and the sounds of several animals from the Brazilian fauna. These “two songs” are carefully intertwined in each one of the tracks, which results in unique, extremely balanced and delicate performances, paying a tribute to the Brazilian nature.

Fábio Caramuru - Cigarra

Bolbol by Cymin Samawatie & Korhan Erel @ Radialsystem Berlin

First single from the brand new Brazilian Girls album LET'S MAKE LOVE, due April 13, 2018.

Produced by longtime Brazilian Girls collaborator Frederik Rubens, the Let’s Make Love album came to life over the course of several years. Since they’re now scattered throughout the U.S. and Europe, the four band members assembled when possible to write and record, piggybacking those sessions onto gigs in Istanbul and Madrid and Paris and New York. Despite the distance, Brazilian Girls consistently found their chemistry as kinetic as when they first started out. “It’s a little astounding to us because we’ll go so long without playing, and then we get together and things just happen in this very harmonious way,” says Sciubba.

One 13-year cicada turned into many

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