Sound recordings selected for Shakespeare Off the Map 2016, a UK higher education videogame competition organised by the British Library and GameCity.

The winning entry for Shakespeare Off the Map 2016 was The Tempest by Team Quattro (De Montfort University): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lzpEFgpk3Y

Off The Map challenges budding designers to use collections from the British Library as inspiration to create exciting interactive digital media.

Shakespeare Off the Map

zienze

meditation

Environment

The world

Listen to a selection of natural soundscapes from the British Library and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

Wild Places

nature sounds

Rainforest

The amazing sound of the Screaming Piha. I recorded this earlier this year and I am working on this project that will bring the sounds to realization. Mother nature has some amazing sounds but unfortunately, Homo sapiens tend to forget these sounds are for free as they walk around with ear buds listening to musical crap....
website: www.naturesound.org
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recorder: sound devices 788t
microphone: Sennheiser 30/40 double MS
recordist: martyn stewart
tripod mounted with rycote windjammer.

Screaming Piha and cicadas

5 am Palenque, Mexico. These crazy howler monkeys greet the rising sun and wake us up. They look much less intimidating then they sound...

Howler Monkeys In The Morning

A group of five Carrion Crows in the trees, before roosting, during a blustery force 6 wind. Recorded in winter at Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire by Richard Margoschis.

British Library reference: 1CD0091587 D2 BD9

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/forest-sky-winter-landscape-r%C3%BCgen-584354/

Woodland In Winter

Scottish woodland at dawn recorded by Richard Margoschis. A chorus of several Chaffinches and Wrens singing, a Blackbird and Rooks, Woodpigeons singing, loud Crows and wing whirring from a Pheasant, a distant cockerel and Jackdaws.

British Library reference: 1CD0091587 D1 BD8

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/bluebell-wood-flowers-springtime-905626/

Woodland In Late Spring

Babbling brook recorded in Kynance Cove, Cornwall on 1st March 1996 by Paul Duck.

British Library reference: W1CDR0000199 BD11

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/water-drop-rain-falling-pouring-275938/

Babbling Brook, Cornwall, England, March 1996

Light rainfall recorded in Amacayacu National Park, Colombia on 1st September 1988 by Richard Ranft.

British Library reference: W1CDR0000524 BD5

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/water-priroda-drops-rain-815271/


Light Rainfall, Colombia, September 1988

Morning in an old forest in Gloucestershire at springtime recorded by Richard Margoschis. The shrill notes of a Wren and nasal calls of a Nuthatch, gentle cooings of Woodpigeons, Robin song, a Pheasant crowing and bees humming. Rooks cawing, scolding notes of a Jay, a Blue Tit calling and singing, drumming from a Great Spotted Woodpecker. Also the songs and calls of a Blackbird, Cuckoo, Willow Warbler and Coal Tit.

British Library Reference: 1CD0091587 D1 BD3

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/tree-support-tree-moss-forest-log-505041/

Old Forest In Spring

Recreation of a Victorian factory. Steam engines, line shafting and belting taking power to tools, lathes, men hammering.

British Library reference: 1CD0126081 D2 BD33

Image reference: 'A Factory Interior', 1871 http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3643389

Victorian Factory

Excerpts of Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi's address at UNESCO, in Paris on April 10, 2015.

PM speaking at UNESCO on Climate Change

Random sounds from the jungle. Recorded low-tech on an iPhone in the Amazon rainforest near Iquitos, Peru.

Peru Amazon Jungle Sounds

Outdoor ambient sound as ESA's 600-tonne, 35-m deep space tracking station at New Norcia, Western Australia, rotates into horizontal pointing during a maintenance test in 2012. 

Original source via http://bit.ly/1K5LoWb

Credit: ESA - CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
http://www.esa.int/Services/Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_IGO_CC_BY-SA_3.0_IGO_licence

ESA New Norcia Deep Space Tracking Station

今年の夏は暑い！少しでも涼を感じて頂ければ幸いです。

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We can feel cool atmosphere when we hear this cicada's chirp.
Recorded at Higashi Awakura Town in Okayama

Higurashi Cicada

Chirping of Insects in Autumn

A cold and overcast Autumn afternoon on a Welsh heather moorland. A strong wind blows over the crags. Distant sheep, mewings from a Buzzard overhead and the calls of a Meadow Pipit and Raven can be heard. Recorded by Richard Margoschis.

British Library Reference: 1CD0091587 CD2 BD7

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/tree-heather-moorland-purple-blue-943247/

Mountain Moorland

Recording on a heathland with trees and bracken on a foggy, dark and very calm autumn evening. Fallow Deer are rutting: the pig-like grunts are from the bucks, the quiet bleats are the does. In the far distance, a Tawny Owl hoots.

British Library Reference: 1CD0091587 CD2 BD6

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/fallow-deer-herd-park-females-597550/


Ancient Chase

Typical midday sounds at La Selva Biological Reserve, Costa Rica. Loud cicadas dominate with a few persistent singers (Columba nigrirostris). Recorded on 15th March 1985 by Richard Ranft.

British Library Reference: W1CDR0001740 BD5

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/forest-rainforest-green-flora-214884/


Tropical Rainforest at Midday, Costa Rica, 1985

Dawn in a primary tropical rainforest at La Selva Biological Reserve, Costa Rica. Sounds heard include cicadas, Eleutherodactylus frogs and Columba nigrirostris. Recorded on 16th March 1985 by Richard Ranft.

British Library Reference: W1CDR0001740 BD10

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/jungle-forest-trees-green-nature-601542/


Tropical Rainforest at Dawn, Costa Rica, 1985

Morning sounds from the Amazon Rainforest recorded by Richard Ranft.

British Library Reference: 1CD0170969

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/tree-tropical-jungle-foliage-143627/

Amazon Rainforest Atmosphere - Morning

Afternoon sounds of the Amazon Rainforest recorded by Richard Ranft.

British Library Reference: 1CD0170969

Image Reference: https://pixabay.com/en/rainforest-palm-trees-moss-78516/

Amazon Rainforest Atmosphere - Afternoon

Philae’s SESAME-CASSE instrument ‘listened’ to the lander’s MUPUS instrument hammer the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last November. 

Note: Access full description of this audio file via:
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/11/12/the-sound-of-philae-conducting-science/

** SESAME-CASSE is the Cometary Acoustic Sounding Surface Experiment located in the lander’s feet in the form of three accelerometers, each of which records acceleration in three directions (one vertical and two horizontal)

** MUPUS comprises the Multi-Purpose Sensors for Surface and Subsurface Science – including the MUPUS penetrator that was activated towards the end of Philae’s first science sequence on 14 November 2014

It was recognized early in the preparation of both experiments that the hammering mechanism of MUPUS, which drives a thermal probe into the comet’s surface, would serve as an acoustic source for sounding the subsurface with CASSE. The determination of the propagation velocity of sound would allow scientists to look at possible layering in the comet’s surface/subsurface materials, important for understanding its evolution.

The CASSE instrument listened to the hammering of MUPUS for 2 hours and 15 minutes. Due to memory limitations, CASSE was not able to take continuous recordings, but only recorded a few seconds in one go. 

A total of 15 hammer strokes were recorded; this audio file contains two signals. The time between the two strokes fits to the charge time of the hammer mechanism expected at that time, thus this particular recording proves that CASSE was really recording hammer strokes.

When recorded, the Philae lander and the comet were about 510 million kilometres from Earth.

Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/SESAME/DLR (CC BY-SA IGO 3.0) 

The sound of Philae conducting science - 1

The LISA Pathfinder GO/NOGO roll call in the Main Control Room at ESOC, ESA's European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany. The roll call was conducted by Flight Director Andreas Rudolph just an hour before lift off at 04:04 UTC (05:04 CET), 3 December 2015. Image credit: ESA/K. Siewert - CC BY-SA v3.0 IGO

LISA Pathfinder was launched on board a Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, on a mission that will test-drive the hardware for detecting gravitational waves – ripples in spacetime, the very fabric of the Universe. 

LISA Pathfinder launch - GO/NOGO rollcall

Celeste - Reiki Meditation

160531_0021S34.mp3

Binaural Dreams

The Taita Apalis (Apalis fuscigularis) is one of the rarest birds in the world. The future of the Taita Apalis depends on how quickly the current habitat can be restored, expanded and protected. Actions include land purchase or lease, active restoration of degraded areas and engaging local people in protecting this unique species.

Episode 001

Mtu na Mazingira - Taita Apalis

TASCAM DR-44WL

Kajika Frogs and River Stream

Birds and monkeys at the Amazon rainforest.

Recorded at DreamGlade, near Maralillos/Iquitos-Nauta Road/the Itaya River, Perú, spring 2017

Amazon rainforest 05

Forest Sounds for Relaxation

Amazon Rainforest Sounds

Liquid Mind - Awakening (Cosmic Sea)

My "Ancient Time". A beautiful Asian pan pipe song from my mix. Stick around, more to come.

Instrumental - Ancient Time

Relaxing - Meditation - Reiki

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