Name: At the pools of Bryn-llwyd by Trefoil
Duration: 8 min 43 s
Description: On a warm September evening Ravens gather to drink at pools below Corsican pines.

Excellent recording, love the space and clarity of the Raven calls.

Is this by any chance recorded in a quarry? How did you manage to get this close? What mics did you use?

Au premier plan, le régulier Blongios nain, et les grinantes Rousseroles turdoïdes. Au second plan : Loriot d'Europe, Huppe Fasciée, Rossignol Philomène (...?)

Lac du Salagou
Micro AT4041 ORTF et Mixpre-6

Blongios nain et rousseroles turdoïdes dans les roseaux du lac du Salagou

As the sunset in the old disused quarry, just outside Lérouville, most of the songbirds fell silent. But the Song Thrush perched just to the left of my microphones and continued singing for another 15 minutes. In the background we hear the melodic chorus of Common Midwife Toads that were located in the sandy hill just ahead of my mics. At around 3 minutes in, we also hear Parsley Frogs off in the distance.

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

Song Thrush And Common Midwife Toads - Lorraine, France

These recordings were made with deep respect in the country of the Ngarrindjeri peoples.

With respect, with sadness, with hope. Everything here has changed; except for the sound of the ocean. Where the waters meet, is where the sounds merge. The sound of the ocean, permeating all, remains the same.

Unprocessed excerpts from original recordings. (Listening with good quality headphones - preferably open-backed - with a flat frequency response is recommended.)

An Afterword: I am deeply pleased and honoured that the original recordings from which this piece was composed have found a perfect home in Megan Spencer's important and heartfelt podcast, 'Bringing His Spirit Home: Private Arthur Thomas Walker, Ngarrindjeri ANZAC', as immersive field recordings made in, and expressing the natural spirit of, Arthur Thomas Walker's home country. This educational podcast is one of four produced by Megan, commissioned by the Virtual War Memorial Australia, and can be heard here: https://vwma.org.au/education/bringing-his-spirit-home-private-arthur-thomas-walker-ngarrindjeri-anzac.

Some of my earlier Kurangk/Coorong recordings have also been happily woven into Megan's related podcast, 'Walking in Two Worlds: The WW1 Story of Ngarrindjeri ANZACs Cryril & Rufus Rigney', which can be heard here: https://vwma.org.au/education/podcast--walking-in-two-worlds--the-ww1-story-of-ngarrindjeri-anzacs-cyril-rufus-rigney.

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2022.10.09 From the Mouth of Murrundi to Goolwa Beach. Kumerangk, Kurangk. Night to Dawn. Spring.

Ojesjön lake, Sweden, freezing over with a whooper swan flying over

Ojesjon lake, Sweden, freezing over. With a whooper swan flying over.

Fin de soirée. Temps calme. Le blongios nain entame son chant. Sur l'autre rive, un autre mâle chante également. La rousserolle effarvatte nous fait profiter de son talent d'imitatrice, avec ici un début de chant inspiré de celui de l'hypolaïs polyglotte. Juin 2023

Sound Devices MixPre 6II + Parabole Telinga Modular

Le discret blongios nain

I enjoyed recording some winds recently, in this section there are some grasses, loose sand, and occasional birdsong, and various tones from the shape of the spot where I had the mics

Desert Wind with Grasses and Sand

On a warm September evening Ravens gather to drink at pools below Corsican pines.

At the pools of Bryn-llwyd

This is a compilation of several tracks available on the Rhythm of Kubah album which is downloadable in mp3 or FLAC format from https://wildambience.com/albums/rhythm-of-kubah/

Rhythm of Kubah

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Rhythm of Kubah - Sarawak, Borneo: Album Sample

[Experiment] Trying the Shure MV88 mic on a iPhone for field recording (nature).   Not that I would want to do this very often, but it could be useful when better mics/recorders are not available in a given moment.   The photo shows the location where this recording was made (holding the iPhone, standing about 5 feet from the grass in lower middle of photo).

[Setup] Shure MV88 on an iPhone 10 with foam windscreen. Settings on app:  mid-side mode, max compression, flat EQ,   The quality is not bad for what it is.

The Shure MV88 is *not* a sensitive mic and certainly not great for nature field recording.  The manual even says it was designed to record in very loud environments like concerts, so it would not be good for recording a quiet soundscape.   However, for loud environments it seems OK.   These cricket frogs were so loud that I wore the headphones for ear protection even when not recording.  Without ear protection the frog calls were painfully loud (to give an idea of the ambient sound levels being recorded).

BTW, on an iPhone X I was not able to find a way to monitor audio while recording.  Gain was set by watching the meter on the app.  On phones that have plug-in headphones, apparently there is a way to monitor audio while recording.

iPhone field recording using Shure MV88 mic (frogs in forest)

Recorded in late May, 2018. Springtime dawn chorus in Minnesota's Chippewa National Forest.

Dawn Chorus - Fiske Clearing

taken from the project 'mineral veins' (dissolves)  natural substances breaking down under environmental pressures, interactions and distortions. 

(recorded using JrF d-series hydrophones & adapted geophones)

mineral veins | Lugnas Dissolve (extract) - headphones / speakers needed

Tales from the understory
Nocturnal and twilight mostly. 
Recordings by Vince Chanter

At the pools of Bryn-llwyd

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