Name: A psychedelic Grinding Machine by Michael Deak
Duration: 3 min 50 s
Description: Listen to this psychedelic sound of a grinding machine, captured with two contact microphones.

my E-MU E4X would love this as sample fodder :D

A short and quick test for Zoom F3 and Dodotronic Hi-Sound stereo 2 + 2 AOM 5024 Phantom Power 48Volt stereo parabolic microphone.

Zoom F3 - Dodotronic HiSound Stereo - Nightingale Song

I have tried to record common midwife toads unsuccessfully for over two years and finally succeeded on a recent trip to Lorraine. This recording was taken in an old disused quarry. The toads begin calling at dusk and when the conditions are right, continue on throughout the night. This recording was made at around midnight, once all the birds had stopped singing. There were hundreds of toads all calling at slightly different pitches, resulting in this very musical performance. 

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s (ORTF)
Recorded on 05.06.2022

Photo credit : Bernard DUPONT (Creative Commons)

Common Midwife Toads - Lorraine, France

In October 2023 there was a spectacular gathering of 25 000 cranes (Grus Grus) in the area of Lake Neusiedl at the Austrian-hungarian boarder not far from Vienna.
You could observe smaller and larger groups in the sky, coming from the north and taking a break from their trip to the south. I've captured a recording of a smaller group, which was passing by from the fields, where they stayed during the day to the sleeping place at the lake.

Recorded with a pair of LOM USI PRO (wide AB) into a TASCAM DR-100MKIII at a place called MEKSIKOPUSZTA/ HUNGARY.

Cranes at the Lake of Neusiedl/Austria

Distant woodpackers hitting wood on shore of lake Cerknica. Some human noise which cant be avoided here. Very cold morning at -10degree C lake is covered with ice which later when sun gets high making very excotic sounds.
Sennheiser MKH40, ZOOM f6

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Many woodpackers around frozen Cerknica lake

Listen to this psychedelic sound of a grinding machine, captured with two contact microphones.

A psychedelic Grinding Machine

Eine Soundcollage aus Aufnahmen der diesjährigen Heuernte des urbanen Agrarkollektivs der LaaerBergBauerInnen. Das Wetzen der Sensen wechselt sich mit den Erntegesängen, Umgebungsgeräuschen wie Fluglärm und dem sanften Tröpfeln der Gießkannen ab. 

A sound collage of recordings of this year's hay harvest of the urban agricultural collective LaaerBergBauerInnen. The sharpening of the scythes alternates with harvest chants, ambient sounds such as aircraft noise and the gentle trickling of watering cans. 

English below!
Event: https://flucc.at/events/CRKqDX-expanded-garden-leopoldstadt-common-rooms/ 

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DE:
Expanded Garden / Irene Lucas und Christoph Euler
Ein Projekt im Rahmen von Common Rooms // FLUCC 2023

Im Rahmen des Projekts Expanded Garden Leopoldstadt werden von 24. September bis 1. Oktober ausgehend vom FLUCC mehrere Mikrolabore zwischen agrar-ökologischen Initiativen, Lern- und Kulturorten an der künstlerischen Schnittstelle zum öffentlichen Raum stattfinden. Eine dreiteilige Erdprozession ermöglicht allen teilnehmenden Orten sich miteinander verbinden zu lassen. Nahrung und neue Bilder werden gesammelt, geteilt, gegessen, verarbeitet und lassen arbeiten. Fermentation, eine Workshop-Konferenz und eine performative Boden-Eröffnung, aber auch gemeinsame Mappings, eine mobile Lochkamera und eine Saatgutbörse werden von einer Solarkantine begleitet. Die Ausstellung reflektiert visuell und installativ über diverse methodische Zugänge dieser situativen Kunstpraxis von Expanded Garden. 

COMMON ROOMS ist der Titel der 2023 neu initiierten »Community-based Art«  Reihe des FLUCC, welche nach einem Open Call von einer Jury ausgewählte Künstler:innen und Kollektive durch partizipative Kunstprojekte mit polydiversen Communities, Nachbarschaften und Schulen rund um den Praterstern und darüber hinaus verbindet.

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ENG:

Garden / Irene Lucas and Christoph Euler
A project in the framework of Common Rooms // FLUCC 2023

As part of the Expanded Garden Leopoldstadt project, from September 24 to October 1, starting from FLUCC, several micro-labs will take place between agro-ecological initiatives, learning and cultural places at the artistic interface with public space. A three-part earth procession allows all participating sites to connect. Food and new images will be gathered, shared, eaten, processed and let work. Fermentation, a workshop-conference and a performative soil opening, as well as shared mappings, a mobile pinhole camera and a seed exchange are accompanied by a solar canteen. The exhibition reflects visually and installatively on diverse methodological approaches to this situational art practice of Expanded Garden. 

COMMON ROOMS is the title of FLUCC's newly initiated »Community-based Art« series, which connects artists and collectives selected by a jury after an open call with polydiverse communities, neighborhoods and schools around Praterstern and beyond through participatory art projects.

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Recordings: Nina Vobruba
Produktion / Collage: Sandro Nicolussi aka. BYDL (@bydl)

Expanded Garden Leopoldstadt – Heuernte LaaerBergBauerInnen [Common Rooms]

This is a recording of a mug full of water and two sticks of chalk. Chalk has a loud natural reaction when placed in water as the air escapes and bubbles out. Recorded with an Aquarian Audio Hydrophone and a Crank Sturgeon plasti-dipped contact mic inside the mug in the water and a Lom Geofon suctioned onto the outside of the mug. No overdubbing or Fx.

Chalk In Water -Hydrophone, Contact Mic, Geofon - Zoom F6

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This soundscape was recorded from the top of a magnificant treehouse built in an ancient Chesnut tree in the forest surrounding the Ferme des Cevennes. We hear gentle summer birdsong as well as one of the farm donkeys calling out and resonating beautifully through the valley. We also hear a woodpecker pecking against a nearby tree.

Recorded 08.08.2025
Zoom F3 + 2 x DPA 4060s

A psychedelic Grinding Machine

Michael Deak

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