great recording, what's your policy regarding use by others?

this sounds very comforting and nice. if you don't mind me asking....how did you record this? what kind of mics?

nice recording! I added it into my Rain group, thanks for sharing.

While working on a documentary project in Addis Ababa, I was lucky enough to visit several natural sites in Ethiopia. This is a recording from Lake Langano, where many birds and other animals live. 

I was recording on the shore near the fishing village, which you can hear softly in the background. At that time, children were bathing and having fun.

March 2021. Recorded together with Lucia Nimcova.

Early morning on Lake Langano, Ethiopia

In the morning of the last day of July, as I was about to enter the main door of an aged care nursing  home, I had to stop and step aside to make way respectfully for a trolley bearing a deceased person draped completely with deep red cloth. I do not know who they were - their name, gender, nationality, story... The body was borne into a nondescript white van.

Later, that evening, while editing and composing some field recordings for a quite different work, this particular conjunction of layers happened to align  itself, as if of its own accord, and I recalled my meeting with an unseen deceased body, neatly draped in deep red cloth, earlier that day. For that person, for every such person, I wanted to offer this sound-parable, as an aesthetic gesture of respect, mourning, but also of celebration, a confident casting and sowing of thoughts towards the all-encompassing horizon of infinity.

"Among the Seven Wise Women, one woman said, 'Sisters, you and I should not go to scenic parks to partake of worldly entertainments... Instead, let's go together to enjoy the charnel grounds.' The other women said, 'That place is full of decaying corpses. What is such a place good for?' The first woman said, 'Sisters, just go. Very good things are there.' When they arrived in the forest, the woman pointed to a corpse and said to the other women, 'The corpse is here; where has the person gone?' The women witnessed the truth and realized the way." (Dōgen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Kōroku, translated by Taigen Dan Leighton and Shohaku Okumura, Boston: Wisdom Publications 2004, p. 120)

2021.08.01 Parable the Second: Passage. (Παραβολὴ ἡ Δεύτερη• Πέρασμα.)

La Montagnette is a 6000 hectare low-altitude ridge (150 m) located just outside the small village of Barbentane. The natural topography, with rather steep slopes, prohibit access by roads making the area well protected from anthropological (man-made) noise.

In mid-August 2021 I headed along the winding paths and found a suitable location to record the gentle summer soundscape of singing cicadas. Within a few weeks of this recording, the cicadas would fall silent once agin until the following summer. 

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s (ORTF)
14.08.2021

Cicadas - Montagnette, Barbentane, France

Recorded in Tokyo
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Field Recording Of Japan, Nature Sounds Of Japan, Field Recording Japan.

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Puerto de El Musel, Gijón, Spain.
25/10/2014

Amarres en el Puerto de El Musel (Contact microphones)

Distant Fires Burning (a.k.a. Gert De Meester) : Bass guitars, Electronics, Treatments 
Seigo Aoyama : Ac. Piano, Stylophone, Synthesizers, Sample

© 2019 by Distant Fires Burning, Seigo Aoyama.  All rights reserved.

Distant Fires Burning + Seigo Aoyama - Monostone

Solo upright bass
Harmonica
Synthesizers and Fx.

Image: Friendship by Agnes Martin.

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0456: Line Up
The Assignment: Interpret a painting by Agnes Martin as if it were a graphic score.

Step 1: Look at the work of painter Agnes Martin, best known for her parallel lines.

Step 2: Select an individual work that suggests itself to you as a musical score.

My imagination is not flamboyant today, I just went for some linear playing, both an upright bass linear impro and an harmonica and synth simple straight drone.

DD 25th Sep 2020

Parallel Lines (disquiet0456)

Visiting an abandoned farm in the outer woods of Luvia village on a rainy and windy day I come upon the windy howl from one really old and big aspen surrounded by younger firs. It was a little before the farmyard, so that the gusts could gather some strength from the more open yard behind. (There’s water dripping and some very small rain, but the sound that sounds like a rain shower in the end of most gusts is not rain, it’s the branches of the firs. I’m not sure if I’ve ever paid attention to this rather distinctive sound before. It was clearly heard against the jet like lower sound from the big aspen and the microphones were placed under one branch.)

I like this recording a lot but due to the loss of quality of the mp3 here the 24/48 flac is downloadable. Though be sure to listen with headphones.

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, no processing, 24/48 flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Old Aspen and Firs - 21/11/2020 - Ruusnellinloukko Luvia

Recording technique: ORTF inverted close to the *Ilm riverbank in Bad Berka, Thuringia, Germany. More about Bad Berka city: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Berka
Recording and monitoring gear: Zoom F4 Field Recorder, RODE M5 MP, Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO/ DT 1990 PRO.

Sound character: Palpable tones, forms, gestures and textures. Scattered vocalization of birds and occasional vehicular traffic. All characters are within distinctive stereofields. 

This piece stems from the project "URBAN SOUNDSCAPES: Between Man and Nature".
Urban Soundscapes is a participatory field craft which fosters:
. Learning and understanding of our environment through Sound.
. Listening to our sonic environment for ear training, meditation and recreation.
. Empirical study on quiet and loud spaces.
. Study on noise in product and material development.
. Knowledge in advanced Sound Engineering.

*The Ilm is a 128.7 kilometers (80.0 mi) long river in Thuringia, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Saale, into which it flows in Großheringen near Bad Kösen.
Towns along the Ilm are Ilmenau, Stadtilm, Kranichfeld, Bad Berka, Weimar, Apolda and Bad Sulza.
In the valley of Ilm river runs the federal motorway 87 from Ilmenau to Leipzig and two railways: the Thuringian Railway between Großheringen and Weimar and the Weimar–Kranichfeld railway. Part of the Nuremberg–Erfurt high-speed railway also runs through the upper part of the valley near Ilmenau.

Beneath the Ilm Bridge #2

A beautiful and calm atmosphere recorded in Borneo's rainforest. Longer version at https://youtu.be/RUZcg6SOZ0A

Borneo Calm Atmosphere

This is a compilation from an over night recording in Kirpakka woods with 15 small cracks in chronological order and as last a bigger bang from one long recording earlier in february.

I had the microphones out in Kirpakka small preservation area over night (from sunset to midday) during the coldest days when temp went down to -20C.  There was practically no sign of life except some road noise and machines from a nearby farm.  Daytime there were a few Crows and two Ravens, one Great Spotted Woodpecker and in early night the distant call of a Tengman's Owl.  

One recording of 18 hours earlier didn't result in any sound of life except a very weak Crow at 11 am. and the big crack in the end of this recording.

There seems to be a great loss of tits and crossbills in Finnish forests today.

But the trees were keeping a good amount of cracks and pops, specially in the early night when the temperature change was as fastest. 

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/210215/

(MKH8020ab80cm, MixPre 32>24/48, no processing, +3dB, flac)

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