Part of a hydrophone recording I made next to an old barge at Ierapetra's port.

Ierapetra Port, Hydrophone Next To Old Barge

High-voltage pole near the railroad tracks. Recorded with LOM Geofón and MixPre3.

Railroad Drone

02-01-2022, Poznań, ul. Botaniczna   16:01

2 stycznia ul. Botaniczna

Silny wiatr w środku łąki spowodował, że usiadłem schowany za belą siana, żeby od niego odpocząć. Postawiłem mikrofon za drugą belą, choć nie uchroniło go to zupełnie od uderzeń mocniejszych podmuchów. Ze słonecznego, wietrznego dnia nagle zrobiło się szaro, odezwały się syreny alarmowe, wiatr wzmógł jeszcze bardziej i uderzyła fala śniegu. Wiatr szeleści i szarpie trawami, gwiżdże na załomach beli, huczy i szumi dookoła.

Strong wind in the middle of the meadow made me sit down hidden behind a hay bale to take a break from it. I placed the microphone behind another bale, although it did not completely protect it from the impact of stronger gusts. Suddenly it turned gray from a sunny, windy day, alarm sirens sounded, the wind picked up even more and a wave of snow struck. The wind rustles and tugs at the grass, whistles on the bends of the bale, rumbles and hums all around.

2022/02/19; 13:49 - 14:07
50.1795964, 16.6924341
Zoom F4, AT BP4025

24dB HPF 40Hz applied

Silny wiatr, syreny i śnieg / Strong winds, sirens and snow

Ceiling Lights

One half of a short EP called 'Dockside', the entirety of which can be heard/downloaded at https://mola-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/dockside-2

Bridgelift Blue

This is an edited excerpt from an overnight to morning recording made at the shore of the Coorong saltwater lagoon, for anyone who might be curious to dip in and get a taste of one way a Coorong dawn might sound, and how it did sound on this particular morning. The microphones were placed in amongst reeds near the tip of the point of land jutting out into the water, which can be seen in the track photo. This excerpt begins from around 06:25 (ACDT). Calm, cool weather conditions, with considerable condensation.

I've come to the conclusion that listening to recordings - and especially raw, unprocessed recordings - of the Coorong environment may be an acquired taste (although the taste may be acquired from a familiarity with other coastal environments and ecosystems with a similar kind of soundscape). The incessant 
 'Coorong roar' takes some getting used to, particularly when heard through headphones. It took me a long time to accept it and immerse myself in it; but eventually I found that other much quieter but higher-pitched natural details - like the calls of birds, and even the sounds of their interactions with the water of the lagoon and the air itself as they wing through it - can still be quite clearly discerned within the soundspace, without the aid of low frequency attenuation. The adjustment in my attention was more effective than an adjustment in EQ.* (A special thank you to Jan Eerala for helping to catalyse this intuition and shift in my perception (although it only works for natural sounds, of course).)

96/32 > 48/24. Edited excerpt, not processed.

Recorded on land of the Ngarrindjeri people that is now a national park.
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*Having said that, though, there are still situations in which I will use EQ for certain Coorong recordings: for example, when the subject is a specific detail, rather than the experience of the soundscape or soundfield as an integral whole.

2022.02.20 A Coorong Dawn. Waterline. Late Summer.

"Tuba Mirum" is a part of the "Dies Irae", a Latin poetic sequence used in Anglican and Catholic liturgies, especially the Requiem Mass.

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Tuba Mirum

2024-06-19

Krótkie nagranie dokonane nad jeziorem Gościąż położonym na terenie Gostynińsko-Włocławskiego Parku Krajobrazowego.
Jezioro jest unikalne w skali Europy ze względu na nienaruszone osady denne gromadzone na przestrzeni 13 000 lat. Objęte jest ścisłą ochroną.

Audio Technica BP4025
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Jezioro Gościąż/Gościąż Lake

An artistic and research project based on the practice of field recordings in old cemeteries.
The Funereal project is set in the broad context of death studies and considerations on memorial sites and deathscapes. It focuses on the soundscapes related to the heterotopic space of old, forgotten cemeteries. In its considerations, it combines seemingly distant threads, regarding memory, sound ecology and the parascientific EVP - Electronic Voice Phenomena.

Coordinates: 50°42'49.6"N 19°22'37.9"E
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Funded by European Union NextGenereationEU.
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Choleric cemetery, Pabianice, 22.09.2024, 18.00

Tired of being bombarded with visual images all the time, I turn myself to the sense of hearing. I invite you to listen to the world with me.
https://tomaszpizio.bandcamp.com

Silny wiatr, syreny i śnieg / Strong winds, sirens and snow

Tomasz Pizio

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