Location Recordings

A recording of the Yarra at Laughing Waters in Eltham.
I've tried to create a narrative of the river by following the progress of a little stream with the microphones

StreamStory

I love the sound of frogs. These sound strangely like a woman talking over a PA at an airport

Frogs at Brewarrina

This is a recording of the ocean (Discovery Bay, Victoria) from under a rock , so it's very muted & has lots of bass. I love the way these environment recordings sound like a musique concrete piece or a synthesised soundscape. I did a little EQ & limited the peaks a bit, but apart from that it's a raw location recording.

Ocean Under A Rock - Discovery Bay

I love the high frequency sound of insects in the bush, it eventually merges together as a regular rhythm and then dissipates, like the insects are moving in & out of phase with each other. This was recorded at Barmah National Park, on the river Murray

Pulsing Insects - Barmah National Park

This is the sound of the surf at Lorne, on the south Victorian Coast, recorded amongst where the sea was coming in. It's a little short, since the sea took me by surprise a few times, so I've edited out the yelling & squealing. The only other treatment I used was some deep low end filters to remove the wind pop & potential harmful frequencies. The bass of the sea is around 60Hz on this recording, whereas my previous post (from Discovery Bay) has a lot of lower subs.

Ocean Under a Rock - Lorne

Recorded under a brick arch railway bridge in Winchcombe, near Cheltenham, England. The resonance of the tunnel is very nice, if you listen carefully at the end you can hear it's still resonating. 

Train from a Tunnel - Winchcombe

A short excerpt of some frogs in the Alpine bogs in the ACT. The frogs seem to talk in short narratives like this, several minutes apart. The mid-frequencies are impressive, shatters the air

Frogs - Ginini Bog (Namadgi National Park)

A narrative compilation of 3 field recordings
Insects at Wyperfield National Park (Vic)
Underneath Snowy Flats Bog (ACT), where the water runs
Ocean in a rockpool at Lorne (Vic), with mics placed to concentrate the resonant frequencies of the rockpool

Wyperfield - SnowyFlatBog - Ocean In A Rockpool (Lorne)

A field recording of the Melbourne Drone Orchestra concert at Northcote Uniting Church on 7 May 2016
The recording starts inside the venue, then walks outside, listens to the buzzing of the windows, the droning guitars in a drainpipe, walks out to the street to hear the passing traffic, then back into the foyer
It's a lo-fi sound, using just the built-in mics on a Tascam Dr07

Location Recordings

VerticalNoise