Very nice recording. I opened the map and looked at exactly where the city of Durham is located. The place is now in my mind through this recording

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

The sounds of a new day in the African bush. This album was recorded in Northern Tuli Game Reserve in Botswana and features the diverse sounds of birds and wildlife in an ecotone of mopane woodland and arid savanna.

Botswana: Dawn in Tuli Wilderness

Botswana: Dawn in Tuli Wilderness - Album Sample

This longish recording focusses on First Light rather than Dawn (Second Light and Sunrise), although it includes the beginnings of the latter. It ought to be listened to with good quality headphones, or good quality speakers, at a mid-range volume of around fifty to sixty per cent. The recording is unedited: one of the things that particularly interests me, and that I especially enjoy, about this early spring First Light forest soundscape (and other similar early spring forest Dawn recordings that I made during this road trip to Tasmania) is precisely its very gradual, slow, minimal, and spacious development. This sounds nothing like an overly-busy tropical rainforest. The 'silence' never completely disappears.

In this rich, dense, moist, cool-temperature southern forest of Tasmania, at the time that this excerpt begins, it is still fairly dark to the human eye. The first First Light call is (as usual) from a Black Currawong (Strepera fuliginosa), a species of Currawong that is found only in Tasmania. Its call is quite unique, very unlike any mainland Currawong, and I grew to adore it, and to recognise it as the main Tasmanian forest sentinel of dawn.

We also hear the final few night calls of Ninox novaeseelandiae leucopsis, which I would prefer to refer to as the 'Tasmanian Boobook', rather than its more common and familiar name, 'Morepork'. Both names are, of course, onomatopoeic labels provided by Europeans. But the name 'Morepork' suggests, to me, an image of radically displaced Europeans in an unfamiliar landscape, craving pork meat, and hearing this beautiful owl call as though it were expressing their own cravings: 'More pork!" (Interestingly, DNA evidence has suggested that Ninox novaeseelandiae is more closely related to the New Zealand Boobook (also commonly known in NZ as the 'Morepork') than to the mainland Southern Boobook (Ninox boobook).)

The other early caller, here, is the Yellow Wattlebird (Anthocaera paradoxa), also found only in Tasmania.

Gradually, the 'Dawn Chorus' stirs and unfurls into a more richly-populated wakefulness. Thankfully, the introduced and now feral Superb Lyrebirds, which have seriously infested this region, seem to be late risers that enjoy sleeping in: somewhat later in the original recording, they pretty much take over most of the forest soundscape.

Recorded with meditative respect upon the land of the Nuenonne tribe of the Palawa people. The recording was made with a pair of MKH 8040s in ORTF into an F3 recorder.

2023.09.23 First Light. Huon Valley. Early Spring.

These recordings were made by members of the Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group during a weekend workshop in regional Victoria.

Each recording documents the same 2 minute sequence during the dawn chorus, with recorders/microphones in proximity to each other. Recording rigs range from simple and inexpensive to hi-end equipment, and this edit allows them to be compared, with a brief silence between each recorder. 

1. Sound Devices MixPre6-2, with DPA4060 omnis (Vicki Hallett)
2. Zoom H6, internal mics @ 120º (James Harris)
3. Sound Devices 702, with pair of Sennheiser MKH20s in SASS array (Andrew Skeoch)
4. Sound Devices 702, with pair of Sennheiser MKH60s in pistol grips, hand held (Andrew Skeoch)
5. Zoom H4N, internal cardoids (Melinda Barry)

awsrg.org.au

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5 field recording rigs compared

Night Listening means sitting, through the night, in a chosen location, as still and quiet as possible, often for many hours, absorbed in purely listening, while recording. This is an excerpt from a recent Night Listening. It involves three Brushtail Possums, and one Red Fox. The responses of the Possums to the barking of the Fox are very interesting. (Don't start with the volume raised to more than 50 to 60 per cent: some of the fox barks are quite close and loud.)

Recorded on the land of the Kaurna people.

2023.12.28 Night Listening. Night Forest. Red Fox and Brushtail Possums. Early Summer.

Late afternoon forest ambience, Ibiza, Spain.
Pigeons and other birds. Wind in the trees.

Recorded with home made "Clippy" EM272 mics in to a Zoom F6 audio recorder.

There was a lot of wind so I put a brickwall high pass EQ on the recording to take the rumble out.

Forest Ambience Late Afternoon - Birds - Ibiza - 19th Dec 2023

A "trailer" track I've been working on requests this past week.
Synthesizers, orchestral samples, percussion, arpeggiators.


For this haiku:

ore train
bright colors
passing quickly

by: Jerome Berglund

Photo by CHUTTERSNAP

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku527-ore-train/

Dark Colors Passing (Trailer) - naviarhaiku527

Strong winds rustling the palm trees above the listener. 
There's a good vertical component with this recording. 
You can hear the trees above you. 
It's a little bit "blowy" but that's sort of expected with the strong winds.

Recorded 10th February 2024. Cala de Bou, Ibiza, Spain

Recorder: ZOOM F6
Mic: RØDE NT-FS1 ambisonic mic, 
Binaural Render: Harpex-x

Ibiza High Winds In The Palm Trees - Binaural Render of Ambisonic recording - RØDE NT-FS1

Kauhajoen Hukanluoma saa alkunsa Lauhanvuoren pohoispuolella olevalta Lumikankaan vedenjakaja-alueelta ja virtaa jo vuolaana luomana Isojoen Uuron kylän paikkeilla 23/10/2023.

(MKH 80, SD 702, 24 bit waw, A+B stereo)

A stream in Finnish forest - 23/10/2023 - Hukanluoma Finland

Pieni metsäpuro putouksineen solisee Kullaan Kakkurin metsätien varrella marraskuun hiljaisuudessa 9/11/2023.

A small stream in the Finnish forest in the mid of winter silence 9/11/2023 in Kullaa, Kakkurin tie, Finland.

(AT4022 A+B, MixPre6, orig. 32bit float, here as 24/waw)

A tiny stream in the forest - 9/11/2023- Kakkuri Finland

The dawn chorus as heard from a small patch of scrub Beech and Birch woodland by the river Wear in the heart of Durham City, North East England. A lovely mild still morning which became a little chilly as the mist rolled in from the river at sunup.

Less road noise than usual given Covid-19 restrictions in the UK. But traffic on the A690 still makes its presence known. On a more pleasant note the bells of Durham Cathedral also make an appearance as they sound the hour in the run up to Sunrise at 5:20am.

Recording 3 - Reload

Dawn Chorus Durham

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