Recording of the sound created by millions of cicadas that emerge in Maryland once every 17 years ("Brood X"). Recorded at 192khz with Schoeps M/S microphones and a Sound Devices MixPre3, feel free to download and use however you like.

Cicada Brood X

A track made from some old Greek folk song records I found in a charity shop. I used it on a Lucky Frame game trailer and people seemed to like it?

Oo La La La La La La

The door slamming in the Hamilton Mausoleum in South Lanarkshire, to demonstrate the 15 second reverb. To download the impulse response for yourself, visit 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o3vzvgajae633av/AADOsx3WN0mYuD2jHEqx4yb5a?dl=0

Hamilton Mausoleum door slam

The bell of a tram, and the tram departing from Murrayfield tram stop, recorded during the first test of the trams with passengers, aka "Exercise Salvador"

Edinburgh Tram Bell

A short stereo excerpt of the 27-minute piece I made for my Floating Cinema residency.
The full work is a multichannel surround piece for blindfolded audience on canal boat. 
This section was built mostly out of sounds recorded on the outskirts of Reading. You can hear a schoolyard that was next to the canal, as well as a giant flock of swans and ducks. The main star of this excerpt, though, is a man who started talking to me after seeing my recording equipment. It was a surreal experience in some ways - it was a beautiful day, with families out enjoying the sunshine and scenic boats passing by, but this man was telling me that my life was in danger. In this section I try to convey the strange shift from idyll to paranoia that this man’s warning created in me.

Published by Soundslike Music administered by Bucks Music Group (PRS)


Neither Here Nor There (excerpt)

1909 Bleriot XI with Anzani 3 cylinder engine. This is the oldest flying airplane in the USA, and the second oldest in the world - second only to an identical model in England.
Recorded idling on the airfield. Lightly edited, you can hear me moving around the aircraft, and occasionally speaking into the mic to say where I am (and also adjusting the gain considerably).
Part of the collection at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, recorded October 12 2015 with the very kind assistance of the Aerodrome staff and volunteers. 
Recording setup: Schoeps CMC6 MK8/MK41 m/s pair in Rycote blimp, Sound Devices 552 recorder.


Bleriot XI

Fokker Dr.1 Triplane flying and landing. Well known for being the preferred plane of the Red Baron, this reproduction is fitted with a slightly more modern radial engine, however has a distinctive whistling caused by the air rushing through the bracing of the three wings.
Lightly edited.
Part of the collection at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, recorded October 12 2015 with the very kind assistance of the Aerodrome staff and volunteers. 
Recording setup: Schoeps CMC6 MK8/MK41 m/s pair in Rycote blimp, Sound Devices 552 recorder.


Fokker Dr 1 Flypast Landing

B24 running one engine, and a P51 flies past about one minute in.
Lightly edited. Recorded in Stafford, Virginia, October 2015
Recording setup: Schoeps CMC6 MK8/MK41 m/s pair in Rycote blimp, Sound Devices 552 recorder

B24 Engine and P51 Flypast

Lightly edited. Recorded in Stafford, Virginia, October 2015
Recording setup: Schoeps CMC6 MK8/MK41 m/s pair in Rycote blimp, Sound Devices 552 recorder

B17 Idle

My first attempt at recording bats - two of them flying between around 3m - 10m above my microphones. Slowed down to 10% of original speed to make their ultrasonic chirps audible. The chirps show up on a spectrograph at around 35-40khz.

Recorded at dusk on a farm in Maryland, October 2015. 
Recording setup: Sound Devices 552 recorder (set to record at 96khz), Schoeps mk8/mk41 m/s pair in Rycote blimp. 

Some light editing, and a high-pass filter to remove all the rumble from slowing the audio down so much.


Bats on the Farm

A piece made out of archival reel-to-reel tape recordings of orbiting satellites from the 1960s, found at the National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. 

Telemetry

Mono 96k recording of a fishing line strung along a pier on Whidbey Island. The wind blowing through the line created some incredibly creepy sounds. Recorded August 2014. Feel free to download and use for your horror soundtrack.

Whidbey Island Pier Fishing Line

Field recording of a work I made for Sanctuary 2017. 

Ritual (Prayer Request) is a sound installation made from candles and recordings of people requesting prayers from the internet. Each time a candle is lit a recording is played. 

The installation took place in the Galloway Dark Sky Park during Sanctuary in September 2017. This recording tries to recreate the experience of the work, complete with rain, river, and waterfall.

Ritual (Prayer Request)

Audio examples from Volume 1 from the Book of Knowledge of Impractical Musical Devices: A Day That Will Never Happen Again.

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Audio example from Volume 1 from the Book of Knowledge of Impractical Musical Devices: A Day That Will Never Happen Again.

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