Species: song thrush, greylag goose, common chiffchaff etc...

Song Thrush was captured by Telinga Universal MK2 parabolic reflector & Sennheiser MKH8020, backgournd ambience track: MS stereo Sennheiser MKH8040, MKH 30, 48Khz/24bit into MixPre6

Location: Zahorie, Slovakia, Czech Republic
Date: 28. 3. 2021
Starting of recording: 6:20h
Temperature: 3-8 °C
Photo by: Soňa Sommerová

Song Thrush Dawn Chorus Zahorie Slovakia

Two years ago, I buried a bathtub in our garden. Birds go to bathe in it, drink and drink insects. The wife also planted aquatic plants in it. Below the water surface of this small reservoir, there is a fragile, inconspicuous sound world.

Location: Židlochovice, Czech Republic
Date: June 2021
Starting of recording: 14pm

Vana - underwater recording in my garden

From album Jaro /Spring/ Bandcamp 2023
https://tomassenkyrik.bandcamp.com/album/jaro

Notes to this recording:
Last April, I went to a floodplain forest in southern Moravia to capture a bombina bombina at one of the wetlands. No sooner had I settled down on the shore than the bombina bombina starts to call. My son fell asleep in his bicycle seat, it was beautifully quiet, no wind, no people, so ideal conditions. I quickly connected the equipment and started recording. After pressing the record button, I heard a small sport plane approaching me in my headphones. It circled over the wetland and then over the floodplain forest continuously for twenty minutes, yes really twenty minutes. It alternately receded and approached. I cursed quietly and preferably away from the microphones, so luckily my comments are not heard on the recording. The next day I downloaded the recording to my computer and was determined to delete it. But I listened to the recording. Something happened that I didn't expect. From the first seconds, the picture seemed to me as a compositional unit. The hum of the aircraft engine entered the recording with gradually increasing volume and began to create a harmony in the lower frequency band to the call of the bombina bombina. Since then, I listen to nature sounds and the sound environment differently. During the recording session, I took a photo of the location and my son sleeping on the bike. I decided to use it as the cover image for the whole album Jaro because it reminds me of the day I started listening a little "different"

Bombina bombina and a small sport plane

Rana arvalis. Foto: Tomáš Hájek
Locality, Czech Republic, South Moravia, Foto 

Short time for blue

Dear Kitty (electroacoustic piece) for electronic, singer, violin, viola). It was inspired by diary of Anne Frank. The piece was composed for Czech Radio. Electronics: Tomas Senkyrik, Voice: Marketa Kaluzikova, Violin: Pavel Rajmic. Produced by Michal Rataj

Dear Kitty

Kopisty - 13092015 - Most Basin - North Bohemia
These sounds were recorded in the area of the former village Kopisty. Kopisty was demolished (in the 70's) to make way for the expanding mines and petrochemical industries. There are many kilometers of pipes in the landscape. The black liquid tar flowing from these pipes...
Foto: Michal Kindernay

Nahrávka byla natočena v místech, kde se dříve nacházela dnes již zmizelá vesnice Kopisty. Kopisty musely být srovnány se zemí v 70. letech z důvodu rozšiřující se těžby hnědého uhlí. V krajině se nachází soustavy mnohakilomentrového potrubí. Nahrávka přináší záznam jedné z výpustí, z níž v pravidelných intervalech tryská hustě černá, horká popelavá voda, hnaná ze zdroje ukrývajícího se daleko za vysokými ploty chemičky. Druhá část nahrávky přináší zvuky, které se dějí uvnitř těchto rour...Jde z toho všeho jakýsi zvlášní smutek.    




Kopisty 13092015

Birds in the feeder. 1 st January 2016 in our garden...gently snowing..and the ravens are flying into the fields. 

Ptáci v krmítku 01012016

I discovered with my son a water source in June 2015. The place is close to my parent's house. It's a beautiful and quiet place in the forest. I've started to build a very small well. Every 13-15 minutes small bubbles come up from the bottom of the well. 
These sounds was recorded by pair of hydrophones (under the water) and by a pair of DPA 4060 (above the water). 

Studánka na Rusavě

Under water recording. Wetland in South Moravia, Czech Republic 

Mokřad 29032016

Recording Date: 28. 3. 2016
Local Time: 6:13
Site: Rusava - Hrklavka, Czech Republic
Altitude: 430m
Temperature: 8C
Recording data: Parabola Telinga Universal and Sennheiser MKH 8040

Drozd zpěvný (Turdus philomelos), Rusava

Recording Date: 25. 3. 2016
Local Time: 5:20
Site: Plačkův les (floodplain forest), South Moravia, Czech Republic
Altitude: 191m
Temperature: 4C
Recording data: Parabola Telinga Universal and Sennheiser MKH 8040  

Drozd zpěvný (Turdus philomelos), Lužní les

Date: 14. 5. 2017
Photo: Julius Klejdus
Time: 0.15 am
Location: Region Zidlochovicko, South Moravia, Czech Republic
Weather: Clear
Temperature: 13C
Wind: 0,9 m/s
Altitude: 180
Moon Phase: 91% Waning Gibbons

Slavík

Species: great tit, song thrush, great spotted woodpecker (drumming), middle spotted woodpecker, Eurasian nuthatch, carrion crow, Eurasian blue tit, Eurasian blackcap, grey-headed woodpecker, Eurasian treecreeper, common wood pigeon, common starling, common pheasant, mallard, mute swan, common chiffchaff, stock dove, marsh tit.

Location: Plačkův les (floodplain forest), Dawn Chorus, Czech Republic
Date: 2. 4. 2017
Starting of recording: 6.13h
Temperature: 8-10 C
Photographer: Dr. Julius Klejdus

Dawn Chorus - Plačkův les

Dawn Chorus from small Wallachian village Rusava. You can listen to quiet and fragile dawn chorus without aircraft pollution because of Covid 19.

You can hear these bird species on this recording: There are there: Tawny owl, Song Thrush, Black Bird, Eurasian collared dove, Great spotted woodpecker and many others.

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Dawn Chorus - Fragile songs of Wallachian village Rusava

Music by Tomas Šenkyřík, Organ: Martin Jakubíček, Sopran: Lenka Ďuricová, Lyrics by Bible Kralická

Vyuč mne Hospodine - Žalm 86,11

Tomáš Šenkyřík (CZ) is a musicologist with interest in field recordings. He is interested in acoustic ecology and discovering musical structures in nature. He is a founder of a Moravian soundmap.

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