Name: Cracking Ice by Cochlea
Duration: 1 min 11 s
Description: 2 channel piezo contact mic recording of a high density sound of cracking ice, caused by a crowd walking and skating over a thin ice sheet on a lake.

gorgeous sounds - what piezo's did you use ?

2 channel piezo contact mic recording of a high density sound of cracking ice, caused by a crowd walking and skating over a thin ice sheet on a lake.

Cracking Ice

Late morning on Staple Island, the Farnes, Northumberland in the company of raucous Guillemots, Kittiwakes and later the odd growling Razorbill. 
In spite of the sheer numbers of birds, the Farnes are a difficult place to record, battling in the short gaps between chatting birdwatchers, camera shutters and boat engine noise.

Sony ECM55s in reflector to Sony TCD-D8 DAT. 11.30am 17th May 2004

Staple Island, Farne Islands: guillemot & kittiwakes

11.04.2023, Massiaru, Thunder, Rain and Hail

A recording under a big Fir in our backyard on a windy day with gale force wind. During the strongest gusts, the fir keeps a higher whining (or hissing) sound that is not commonly heared unless strong wind enough.

MKH8020 ab80 cm, SD702, 24 bit wav, nothing (except fade in and out) done in edit.

Listen with headphones, thanks!

A big Fir whining - 7/10/2023 - Makholma Finland

PLEASE NOTE COMPRESSED QUALITY FOR SOUNDCLOUD
Binaural recording (WEAR HEADPHONES) using 8 microphones and contact mics of a working marine shipyard,capturing the natural sounds of wind filtering through objects.
*Binaural recording wear headphone*
In the boatyard, a cacophony of enduring winds orchestrates a myriad of rhythmic sounds, creating textures and tapping, both constant and dynamic. My attempt to capture the wind's essence reveals its whistling resonance, intertwining with reverberating sails, wires, and walls, producing gentle timbres reminiscent of icicles. Amidst the gusts, a vocal-like whistling emerges, accompanied by the sound of small objects falling or friction between surfaces. This recording encapsulates the unspoken poetry of the wind. Wind sails' rattling becomes a natural refrain, echoing the dialogue between human design and the untamed forces, a testament to the harmonious conversation between human and more than human soundscapes.

Marine Wind

My favorite recording location did not disappoint this evening in early march. I have heard about cod drumming, and suspect that this is it. However I wasn't prepared for this intense sound of several individual species making noise at the same time. 

There are some anthropophony in this recording. Mainly noise from small vessels, but some faint sounds from cars passing over a bridge 600 meters to the east.

Hydrophones - Aquarian H2AXLR
Recorder - Zoom F3

Intense sound from the deep

A peine arrivé du weekend Pascales, je vois de ma fenêtre un nuage noir et menaçant. J'ai juste le temps d'installer les microphones avant n'éclatent les coups de tonnerre suivit par une brève averse de grêles.

Enregistrement avec mon SD MixPre 3II et mon couple de MKH40

Colère brève et soudaine

Chorus of endemic treefrogs of Taiwan :
莫氏樹蛙 Rhacophorus moltrechti Boulenger, 1908.
台北樹蛙 Rhacophorus taipeianus Liang & Wang, 1978.

Recorded near Jiaping Camp, Yilan County, Taiwan.
13.04.2024 20:40
Sony PCM-D100 + Primo EM272

240413 treefrog chorus, Jiaping, Yilan, Taiwan

Enjoy relaxing in shelter of mountain cabin.
It wasnt freezing so water dripping and there was strong wind that day.
Mkh40 sennheiser Ortf and zoom f 3 recorder
Slovenian mountains

Howling wind in mountain cabin

Listening with ancient trees.
Starting our journey to this ancient forest at midnight,scrabbling o ver large granite stones and undulating paths.

A night walk in a temperate rain forest in Dartmoor Devon UK.
Close your eyes and take a sonic journey of deep earthly time  with this ancient tree that's been a silent witness to layers of history.

The sounds you here are after a warm day are  tiny popping  that is the sound of water passing through the cells of the xylem tubes and cavitating as it mixes with air on its way upwards.

I have wanted to capture for years what goes on behind the bark of a tree,I spent hours with this ancient trees at night to escape as much human noise as possible.Using highly sensitive contact microphones and hydrophones,handmade pre-amps and probes  to make audible the inner workings of trees. I first heard the moss layers of the bark as it  hydrated and dehydrated  then the rumble of the tree moving and the popping of the water,and the odd plane going past.

Internal Sounds of a Tree

Psarocolius montezuma recorded at a nesting colony, near Turrialba, Costa Rica. 5.30am 2nd March 2018. Primo 172 mics AB to SONY PCM-M10
Overall winner of 2019 Competition of Wildlife Sound Recording Society
https://simontelliott.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/some-birds-have-all-the-luck/

Montezuma Oropendola

Tjerk Stoop is an artist and musician with a background in environmental engineering and sonology, specializing in field recordings to capture the unique and diverse sonic characteristics of soundscape ecologies.

Cracking Ice

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