Great recording! I love the way we can clearly hear each call reverberate off the surrounding woodland!

Briiliant recording!The natural echo is lovely,indeed.

Great sense of space/environment here... Well done.

The Empress cicada starts calling as the sun sets, just as daytime birds are winding down their calls and nighttime creatures are waking up. You first hear distant ones, and it almost sounds like some industrial metal cutting process. Long version at https://youtu.be/6ZPDYlvj7MM

The weird sound of the Empress cicada

Species: Mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
Date and time of recording: 25 April 2021, 6.45am
Location: Florence Court Forest Park, County Fermanagh, Ireland
Habitat: Old estate managed woodland
Gear: Sennheiser 8040 on parabolic dish, 744t recorder

Mistle Thrush

The close action of a pair of Ural Owls was so fascinating that I failed to notice the display of northern lights. 3.03.2024, Saueaugu, Estonia.
The noise from Tallinn-Tartu high traffic motorway.

Ural Owls and Northern Lights

Fen Violet

This recording was around midnight, it had just stopped raining. I heard them calling in a field near my garden and rushed out with my recording gear.
I didn't quite have time to get my levels set right.
At one point a female flew right over my head calling, it was so close the recording peaked and is distorted (sorry about that!).
I've never heard so many female calls in such a short space of time.
I love the natural echo's from the calls bouncing off the houses in the village.
The odd distant sounds of cracking branches and rustling are from cows in a wood opposite!
Recorded using a Telinga parabolic reflector with stereo dat mic to an Edirol R4 Pro recorder.

You can now download this track and works by other recordists for free, from the album 'a quiet position: wildeye edition":
http://engravedglass.bandcamp.com/album/a-quiet-position-wildeye-edition

TAWNY OWLS, FEMALES CALLING TO EACH OTHER.

Chris Watson Invertebrate Harmonics

Taken from the album 'taking into account only a portion of your emotions' released as CD and Download

taking into account only a portion of your emotions

pinkcourtesyphone 'Reference Point Intermission 1' (EMEGO 236)

Werbeliner See bei Leipzig, 10.06.2019, 21:00 Uhr
unfortunately with a little bit of traffic noise

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Thunderstorm at the lake

This year London has experienced several weekends of the hottest summer and that moved the Australian sound artist Kate Carr, whose practice is centred on articulating the relationship between people and place through sound, to point her microphone at the city. This volume is based on her recordings during a particularly hot long weekend in a corner of very busy intersection in London, where she resides now. In Heatwave, Carr is interested in both the serious and also the more prosaic aspects of soundscapes related to climate change. She investigated the throbbing summer music from her neighborhood, people’s efforts to keep cool, and the uneasiness which accompanies these everyday activities in this moment of environmental crisis. The way these pieces construct and compensate, with all the tangible sounds that fold into larger moods via multiple instruments, exemplifies her acumen in creating sonic stories that reflect our multi-layered experience of reality.

Humidity - from Heatwave out now via Hasana Editions

Starting to work with different layers from my bicycle recordings. This sketch includes recordings where contact mics are attached to the bicycle while riding, and ones where it is stationary and 'played' as an instrument.

Bike Sketch - Kate Carr

Wildlife interactions can often bring out all sorts of unconventional sounds, allowing us to hear more natural communication, which can sometimes be aggressive, or more intimate. I wouldn't like to guess whether this is aggressive or intimate but that sound towards the end is certainly compelling.

Gavin Vella

Tawny Owl Pair - MixPre - 1750 01.WAV

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.

TAWNY OWLS, FEMALES CALLING TO EACH OTHER.

Peter Toll

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