Field Recordings

Eco Healing

Frogs

Anura by others

The Moustache Playlist

Trompettes Maurice Jarre Avignon

Rainforest Sounds And Animals 1 Hour - Soothing Audio For Relaxation, Sleep And Meditation

Frogs in the first weeks of activity of the year. It was the warmest night so far, unusually high and although I went to the lake's edge, they were so loud that they could be heard from a long distance. This is also a place to see and hear herons and sometime storks, but this night it was all for the frogs.
I was testing out a Zoom F3 for the second time.

Frogs in the Countryside

Some frogs in a pound - Worblaufen / Bern
Audio Technica AT8022 stereo mic on Tascam DR-100mk3
48kHz / 24bit - low cut in post

2024 - 05 - 01 Worblaufen - Frogs

Wildlife Sound Recording Society (WSRS) 2015 Competition Winner 
- restricted winner
- won the certificate for the overall restricted winner
- runner up of the open class of class 4 (Habitat)

In November 2015 I stayed for a few days in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. Whilst eating dinner one evening a huge, intense storm passed overhead. As soon as the storm had moved on, an incredibly intense frog and toad chorus began down at a small lake not far from my bungalow. As it was night time I had to be accompanied by a guard down to the lake in case any of the national park animals crossed our paths (elephants, leopards, hippos, snakes etc). 

Once we got to the edge of the lake I set up my mics and began recording. The chorus was really intense, with the dominant voices those of the Guttural Toad and the Rocket Frog. It was pitch black and as I sat and recorded, I became hypnotised by the evolving waves and patterns of the chorus. 

At the end of this recording we hear a clap of thunder. A few seconds prior to this, a bolt of lightning had forked down to the ground a kilometre or so away, and for a split second the entire lake had been lit up in bright purple. To my amazement, a hippo was standing in the middle of the lake, about 30 metres from where I was standing. I can't explain the rush of adrenaline I had at that moment. 

A truly amazing experience and a wonderful soundscape.

Photo courtesy of Charles J. Sharp
Special thanks to Robert C. Drewes, PhD for help on identifying the frog and toad species.

Intense Amphibian Chorus - Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

Musique du dessin animé "Les Shadoks et la maladie mystérieuse" de Thierry Dejean d'après l'oeuvre de Jacques Rouxel, A.A.A Production 2015.

Musique de triomphe du Professeur Shadoko - Les Shadoks et la maladie mystérieuse

Two binaural sound impressions from Guadeloupe: little frogs "singing" in the evening (they only could be heard after sundown) and waves at the beach (pebbles) of Vieux-Habitants

Guada - Frogs

Early morning as a large flock of starlings leaves the roost.

Winter murmuration # 2

Recorded in Kenya, this early evening chorus of frogs, Cicada, crickets and slate-coloured boubous, they are a delight to listen to. Kenya has long been a destination to see the animals of Africa but for a recordist, It is a dream to just sit back with headphones and take in the magic of Kenya.

Recorder: SD 788
Microphones: MKH-40/30 ms
Tripod mounted with Rycote windjammer.
Sample rate: 44.1k 24 bit
Temp:82f
Humidity:82%
Location: Samburu, Kenya

Website: www.naturesound.org

facebook:https://www.facebook.com/pages/NaturesoundorgMartyn-Stewart/270743161947?ref=sgm


Frog chorus with cicadas and crickets. Slate-coloured boubou, doves

Large pig frogs lead the croaking chorus of multiple species searching for mates in the flooded saw grass prairie along PaHaOkee Road in Everglades National Park, Florida. Southern cricket frogs "clack-clack" in background.Wide stereo field recorded in ORTF with pair of Line Audio CM3 cardioid microphones feeding a Sound Devices MixPre 3 recorder. February 2018.

Pig Frogs Pa Hay Okee

Brought out by a rain storm, toads and frogs call out as thunder continues to roll across the cypress and saw grass forest at the Big Cypress Preserve, part of the everglades near Miami, Florida. 00:05 Southern Toad, 00:11 Green Tree Frog, Spring Peeper frogs' birdlike chirp throughout, and 03:20 far off Red Shouldered Hawk. Recorded in XY Stereo with Audio Techinica BP4025 and MixPre-3, 40hz low cut and 57 Db gain. One continuous recording with EQ applied in post. May 2018.

Amphibian Rain Call

As the night progresses, frogs sing three verses: 1) cricket frog solos & far off pig frogs answer, 2) chorus of green tree frogs and 3) clacking southern cricket frogs harmonize with grunting green tree frogs. Big Cypress Preserve, Florida, June 2018. Wide stereo field recorded in ORTF with pair of Line Audio CM3 cardioid microphones feeding a Sound Devices MixPre 3 recorder.

Three Verse Florida Frogs

As the last noisy chorus of three southern cricket frogs fades out for the night, quieter creatures fill the swamp forest with more subtle sounds until dawn. Recorded in the Big Cypress Preserve near Miami, FL, June 2018. Wide stereo field recorded in NOS with pair of Line Audio CM3 cardioid microphones feeding a Sound Devices MixPre 3 recorder.

Swamp Forest Late Night

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter LXXXIX. Pianos In The Wild by Andrew Pekler. 
Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

 
This mix features some favorite (mostly unaccompanied) piano meanderings from Australia, Algeria, Ethiopia, Italy, South Africa and the US set against a shifting backdrop of various nocturnal field recordings.

Tracklist: 
1. Joanna Brouk - The Space Between 
2. Chris Abrahams - Roller 
3. Abdullah Ibrahim - The Pilgrim 
4. Mustapha Skandrani - Mode Ghrib 
5. Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou ‎– Golgotha 
6. Domenico De Clario - June 5 
7. William Duckworth - Time Curve Prelude III 
8. William Duckworth - Time Curve Prelude XIII 
9. Adrian Klumpes - Be Still 
10. Raul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo

https://soundcloud.com/pekler

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter LXXXIX

Mysteries of the Deep LXXXIX - ANDREW PEKLER | PIANOS IN THE WILD

Agitation & Robin

A far off night train whistles across a suburban pond as leopard frogs wake, their croaks overcoming the quiet evening in Mount Dora, Florida, December 2018. Recorded in XY stereo with Audio Technica BP4025 and Sound Devices MixPre3.

Night Train & Small Town Frogs

Larvae eating a log from the inside in the Amazon rainforest. Recorded with Sony PCM M10 and a pair of Clippy EM172 mics. More sounds from the Amazon rainforest at https://mindful-audio.com/amazon-jungle/

Amazon basin - Decomposing log - Larvae feast

2019.10.07 Eucalypt Forest Preludes. Early Spring. Night. No. 3.

Forest wonders, secret life of forest vol.3
https://ivovicic.bandcamp.com/album/forest-wonders-vol-3
Series of recordings recorded in period from early spring to late summer in (mountain) forest wilderness. Here you can find rare sounds of European Wolf recorded in wilderness, the whole pack. Mumble of Brown Bear among many other animals/biophony/sounds, but you can sense the "aura of natural places" through the "geophony" sounds as well.

Forest wonders Vol.3

Forest wonders vol.3 - album preview

Just a recording by the birdfeeder on our backyard. (The first and last minute says the most) Birds starring: Tree Sparrow, Whooper Swan and some tits.

Updating www.baltic.fi

(MKH8020 ab60cm, SD702, no processing, 24/48, flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Finnish Sounds - 13/12/2019 - The Bird feeder

Calm afternoon storm recorded at Tabin Wildlife Reserve in North Eastern Borneo. Recorded with Sony PCM A10 and Lom MikroUsi mics. Listen to more recordings I made in Borneo at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCRlYmmK1sqrM_BB3xp6quofSq7fYdEPA

Borneo Rainforest - Afternoon Storm with rolling thunder

Spectral Vectors was created for 'Come Hell Or High Water', a monthly series of live events on the Thames foreshore at Poplar, organised by Anne Bean, Hayley Newman, Harriet Latham and others. It takes as its starting point the idea of ghosts of the Thames; river revenants in the form of lost sounds of previous times from the river's busier industrial past, such as ship's horns, tugboat horns, foghorns and other industrial sounds. 

Expanding on this theme, the idea of things lost/buried/hidden/removed came to mind. Documentary radio footage relating to sunken unexploded WWII ordnance and tragic drowning was combined with recent field recordings of mine made with contact mics attached to cabling beneath Millenium Bridge at St. Paul's, amplifying sounds hidden to the naked ear, when the bridge is animated by foot traffic, wind coursing through it and sun warming it. 

Hydrophone recordings also capture hidden sounds – various vessels passing, sounding thin and insubstantial as wind-up bath toys from a submarine perspective. Delving deeper, recordings made inside Greenwich foot tunnel feature; resonant metallic sounds buried beneath the river itself echo along the tunnel's length.

Municipal greed and acts of resistance also form part of the documentary material with Bob Hoskins enlightening Barry Norman in 1982 about various development scams along the river, Malcolm MacLaren talking about the Sex Pistols' 1977 riverboat gig, and riverboat men going on strike. This footage is animated by the addition of lost ship's horns, populating the river with a lively, boisterous presence.

My first forays into field recording began whilst on summer work in the 1980s, when I bought a secondhand recording walkman, and my first recordings were made on the Thames at Vauxhall, capturing, amongst many things on a busy summer river, the sound of a speedboat whizzing past, dopplering downriver. This can be heard later in the piece, just after Hoskins says, “...regenerating the river.. bringing it back to life..making it a playground for the wealthy.”

The piece ends with recordings I made on a visit to Rainham Marshes in Essex in 2017, as the pace slows down and distant perspectives come into view. Sounds from the far shore can be heard, lending a widescreen feel, with the low hum of industrial barges drifting languidly past. Larks enter the frame, endlessly improvising metres above me as I sit on landfill overlooking the Thames estuary, while pigeons flap busily around the concrete barges, sounding like distant handclaps. 

These concrete barges were the site of a particularly memorable TV appearance by Bow Gamelan (on Channel 4's Alter Image in 1986), playing on and in the barges and in advancing tides (up to their necks at one point). Invoking the spirits of Paul Burwell and z'ev, whose ashes are scattered in the Thames, I improvised on a large cylindrical metal item on site near the barges. An extract from this enters low in the mix, panning back and forth across the stereo field, before quietly exiting. 

The main intention of my trip to the barges was to record myself improvising inside them. Traveling out from Battersea, I timed my visit at low tide. Despite this however, the exposed ground around the barges was way too treacherous to negotiate; I would've sunk up to my knees in squelchy sand. So near and yet so far... 

The piece opens with a pitch-shifted combination of older ship's horns and foghorns, which hove into view, as though summoned from the depths. These reappear to close out the piece, very low in the mix, as though already departing and quite distant; sinking back into the depths.

In memoriam: 

Paul Burwell 1949 – 2007

z'ev 1951 – 2017

Many thanks to Ian Rawes (www.soundsurvey.org.uk) for directing me towards freely available and immensely valuable BBC archive recordings.

The piece is freely downloadable for transfer to other listening media.

Spectral Vectors

I'm a Miami location sound recordist who will capture terrific tracks for your interview, commercial, documentary, reality show or news program. With more than 30 years telling compelling national and global stories, I’m a complete team member with a keen eye for production and a sharp ear for powerful sound.

And as a field recordist - working independently of a film crew - I’ve captured the subtle sounds of the natural world from a kayak, a manhood dance in Ethiopia and the action-packed soundscapes of China.

Pig Frogs Pa Hay Okee

Miami Sound Recordist