Great capture Peter.  Just listened again on headphones - love that owl near the end.

@london-sound-survey: Thanks Ian, was great listening whist recording :)

Birds

Angry Wife

Ra Uru Hu | Under Shamash | Recorded October 20, 2006

Sailing Neutrino Seas

With my many trips out recording in the field, this track personally for me is one of the most beautiful sounds I have recorded.

It was at 3:50am on the 13th of June 2012 on the banks of the river Waveny near Geldeston, Suffolk, UK. I had set up the microphones the evening before and ran a 50-metre cable back to a boat. 
Luckily there was very little wind to affect the recording and to my delight as the dawn chorus began, a Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos) came close to my microphones and started to sing his beautiful song.
Many other songbirds are singing and calling, including Blackbird, Wren, Tawny Owl, Cockerel and a Cuckoo halfway through this recording.
No wonder so many poets such as Tomas Hardy, Robert Browning, William Wordsworth and Edward Thomas have included this bird in their poems describing its wonderful song.

 It was pure joy resting on my bed in the boat wearing my headphones, listening live as I was recording this beautiful song. Not a bad way to start the day!
 The photo is of the location, taken the evening before as I was setting up the microphones and cable.

BeautifulNow Competition Entry: Song Thrush at Dawn

Last week whist leaving a friends house, I heard some mighty sounds coming from a nearby wood, Thousands of Jackdaws (Corvus monedula) and Rooks roosting as darkness fell. 
Thursday the 26th of November 2015, I was given permission from the land owner that evening to set up my equipment to record this rather loud spectacle. It was a cold still evening in North Norfolk, some distant sounds of traffic and a river could be heard. Whilst getting to the spot to record, I had to cross a flimsy, slippery, bridge over the river made from a piece of hardboard which had no railings, so had to watch my step carrying the gear, especially coming back in the dark.
The equipment was in place by 3:30pm and I patiently waited. At 4pm, still no sign and it was now starting to get dark. A low mist was rolling in across the field on the edge of the wood. Pheasants were now roosting all around, making there loud calls as they sprung up into the trees for the night. Then at around 4:15pm I could hear a wall of sound approaching and this was what I had been waiting for, thousands of birds heading in my direction. Quite a surreal moment crouching down looking at the recorder with such sounds coming from right above my head! After a little while the sounds got quieter and a few calls from a Tawny Owl was a nice way to finish, pack up and make my way home.
Many thanks to Gav, who helped me spot the location. Many, many thanks to the landowner for letting me record on their property. Length 10.03min

Jackdaw's returning to roost with Rooks

thousands of geese & ducks take off from lake

Dawn at Marsh by Lake Jõemõisa, Jõgeva County, Estonia.
 29th April 2016

Bitterns ( Botaurus stellaris) with Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus), Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris), Savi’s Warbler (Locustella luscinioides), Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago), Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana)... and others. 

Recorded with a pair of Rode NT1A’s arranged ORTF into a SD702

Many thanks to Veljo Runnel for assistance with recording locations in Estonia. 


Bitterns Booming

sound mo(ve)ments - music for meditation is available for purchase at saraauster.com

F I R E - sound mo(ve)ments

In a recent Women's Workshop, a participant in her 80's asked "What is the function of an older woman beyond childbearing age?". This recording is Michaela's answer, touching on sexual viability, experience, wisdom function and lessons to be learned from a Wise Woman.

For all workshops and information go to: www.michaelaboehm.com


The Truth About The Wise Woman

The warning call of female Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo). The call has been also described as ‘Devils laugh’. It sure can scare you in dark quiet forest, when it suddenly starts…

Warning call of female Eagle-Owl

Behind the church, in the small village of Praia do Sono, toads are singing. Beach in background very far away...

Recorded by a MS Setup Schoeps CCM41+CCM8 in a Zephyx Windscreen by Cinela
Recorder Sound Devices 633
Original Recording in Wave 96kHz 24bit
Sound Reference: BRA170219T10

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Toads singing during the night in Praia do Sono (Brazil)

Quarry, Marušići, Croatia by OR poiesis http://orpoiesis.blogspot.com/

candelabre

unity.projections[001=>2]  - for accordion and cello (2020)
/live recording/

Branko Džinović (accordion)
Aleksandar Latković (cello)

Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra Hall
10 March 2020

unity.projections[001=>2]  - for accordion and cello (2020)

Dark Hall.

Beelze's Tub

Join Michaela in this live Q&A recording from her 9-month Women’s Study Group.
 
0:00 - How to get things done as a woman 
8:50 - What’s the big deal about kundalini energy?
15:28 - Women’s empowerment vs neotantric views on femininity 
19:22 - Strategies for working with emotional triggers

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Podcast #48: Women’s Empowerment, Getting Things Done, & Emotional Triggers

Peter Toll is fascinated with the sounds & rhythms of the natural world, with a long interest in sound recording for which he has won several awards.
For ten years under the name ‘tolly’, Peter was a member of the a/v group addictive tv, producing and performing all over the world.
Now Peter is using his field recordings, its rhythms, sounds and textures as a basis of structure and inspiration to produce his music.

"The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music."
- Ryuichi Sakamoto -

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“When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.” 
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

Jackdaw's returning to roost with Rooks

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