Amazing phenomenon... and amazing work you're doing, Bill!!

I would love to be there, smelling thehay in the fall and listening to birdsong. So beautiful ♥

I too had amazing flight in Ithaca 6 miles north of you the same night. So I wonder if there had been array of microphone in a line may we could have seen a waves of birds passing through!

Masterful recording, a night of legend! Mesmerizing beauty. Thank you so much, Bill, for this contribution and for all of your foundational input in the field. My experience as a newby has been to keep OldBird open on my computer and phone all the time. Dangerous inverse rabbit hole. Thank you again.

Sounds like there are coyotes singing, too!

Was just telling my students about the bird migration patterns... I will play this for them! Thanks!

I listen to this recording more times than I'd like to admit. I find it so comforting for some reason.

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Dima: Antrakt (Intermission)

Original music for "Museum Town" documentary. Engineered by Erfan Hajy

A F S

Rain during the night in the Brazilian forest, in the small village of Serrinha do Alambari in the state of Rio de Janeiro.  Recorded from the balcony of the house, during the night (around midnight for this part of the recording)

GPS: -22.392420 -44.560264
ORTF Setup done of 2 Schoeps CCM4 on a Cinela Suspension + Windscreen, recorded on a Sound Devices Mixpre6 in Wave 96kHz 24bit
Sound Ref: BR-210831-02
Recorded during the night on 31st of August 2021
Same sound on Freesound here https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/585845/

Freesound

Light rain in the forest (Brazil)

Dima: Otrazhenie (Reflection)

Elegant, Golden

Halftribe - Intro

Rest of Life

Steve Roach - Stream of Forever

Somi

Minism

Hearing Music

Majesty Suites - Entrance of the Queen of Winter Dawn

Originally released in 1974 on Costanza Records CO 10010 (library series)

Music by GIANCARLO GAZZANI, SANDRO BRUGNOLINI, STEFANO TOROSSI - composed and directed by Giancarlo Giazzani.

An extraordinary Italian Library recording originally released on the lauded series “Musica Per Commenti Sonori” with a mispressed catalogue number. The unveiled twin session of Stefano Torossi’s legendary FEELINGS, this album features the same line-up, and same composers, with music and direction by Giancarlo Gazzani and compositions made by Sandro Brugnolini and Stefano Torossi himself.

Upon its release, the label realized its mistake, and the album was immediately withdrawn. It is one of the most obscure Italian Library albums as a result. The music is similar to FEELINGS,  ranging from jazz-funk to orchestral to experimental.  This album has been repressed on 180gr. wax, and was remastered from the original master tapes. Edition of 400 copies.

Mix courtesy of TommyBoy

MUSICA PER COMMENTI SONORI

Giancarlo Gazzani - MUSICA PER COMMENTI SONORI

A recording from central New York State (North America)of thousands of night migrating birds on the night of September 11-12, 2020. The most common calls are from 12+ species of wood warblers, Rose-breasted Grosbeak & Swainson's Thrush -  most all headed to Caribbean Islands, southern Mexico or Central & South America for the winter. The 6+ hour recording began at 9:45pm EDT. To hear the intricacies, crank the volume. WARNING FOR HEADPHONE LISTENERS: There are a few instances of very loud bird calls (ex. flock of Green Herons passing over at 0:01:45 - one minute 45 seconds into recording. Adjust your headphone listening level on this section before proceeding).

I made this recording using an "Old Bird 21c" microphone mounted on a 2.5 meter wood tower in the middle of a hay field. It contains the densest dark terrain (no artificial light), non-coastal, avian nocturnal flight call rate I have documented in 30+ years of monitoring such calls in North America. The original audio submitted to SoundCloud was a mono wav file, 22050 sampling rate, 16 bit resolution.

The artwork is by Cheryl Chalmers (c) 2011, and depicts her kids listening to night migrating birds through a roof-mounted "flowerpot"  microphone in Trumansburg, NY.

Special thanks to Cathy & Frank Darrow for hosting the recording station in their Danby, NY hayfield, and to Herb Susmann of Nature Sound Electronics for superb S/N in the microphone electronics.

Big Migration Night

Recorded and assembled by Italian ethnomusicologist Vincenzo Della Ratta, this mixtape features a selection of field recordings made throughout southeast Asia, including a Dayak Benuaq gong ensemble, recorded over the phone one night in Borneo, playing a genre of funerary music called titi mati. And after you’ve listened to this, check out his Sublime Frequencies release Kwangkay: Funerary Music of the Dayak Benuaq of Borneo (SF106LP) and another great collection out on Akuphone called The Gamelan of the Walking Warriors: Gamelan Beleganjur andthe Music of the Ngaben Funerary Ritual in Bali (Akuphone).

Tracklist
1 Semut Megarang, from The Gamelan of the Walking Warriors (Akuphone, AKU1007).
2 Soundscape of Pleiku City (Vietnam, 2007).
3 Pak Viktor plays the gambus lute and sings (Kutai Barat, Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia, 2011).
4 A Jarai gong ensemble playing in a funerary ritual (Central Highlands of Vietnam, 2013).
5 A busker playing the saw duang fiddle (Luang Prabang, Laos, 2009).
6 A Black H’Mong woman singing a song (Sa Pa, Vietnam, 2007).
7 A funeral march played by a brass band (St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2007).
8 Titi mati, from Kwangkay: Funerary Music of the Dayak Benuaq of Borneo (Sublime Frequencies, SF106LP).
9 A gerantang bamboo xylophone player by the seaside (Pasir Putih, Bali, Indonesia, 2010).
10 An Ede gong ensemble playing in a communal ritual (Central Highlands of Vietnam, 2013).
11 The Juar melody played by a Bahnar man on the ting ning tube zither (Central Highlands of Vietnam, 2018).
12 The Juar melody played by a Jarai gong ensemble in a communal ritual (Central Highlands of Vietnam, 2012).
13 A Dayak Benuaq gong ensemble playing during a healing ritual (Kutai Barat, Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia, 2011).
14 A Black H’Mong man playing the jaw’s harp (Sa Pa, Vietnam, 2007).
15 A Rongao man playing the trung bamboo xylophone (Central Highlands of Vietnam, 2020).
16 A Laotian man playing the khen mouth organ (Southern Laos, 2009).
17 A Dayak Benuaq gong ensemble playing in a healing ritual (Kutai Barat, Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia, 2011).
18 Siu Khoi (ting ning tube zither) and Rochom Tih (koni spike fiddle with a mouth resonator) playing a well-known Jarai lullaby (Central Highlands of Vietnam, 2016). 
19 A Bahnar gong ensemble playing in a communal ritual (Central Highlands of Vietnam, 2019).
20 Kokuh porotok, a well-known Bahnar song, sung by Ksor H’Hoanh and Ksor Thuc, and accompanied by the ting ning tube zither, played by Siu Khoi (Central Highlands of Vietnam, 2009).
21 A Jarai gong ensemble playing in a funerary ritual (Central Highlands of Vietnam, 2012).
22 An old Bahnar man singing the classic French song Boire un petit coup (Central Highlands of Vietnam, 2019).

Big Migration Night

Bill Evans

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