Archive for the 'fieldrecording' Category

"The high frequencies of the popping and cracking noises are transmitted faster by the ice than the deeper frequencies, which reach the listener with a time lag as glissandi sinking to almost bottomless depths."

A sample set of deep sea audio.

Evolution of the field recording from that which records non-western or folk musicians to include also recordings of wildlife or other environmental sound. I'm not sure this is quite so recent a phenomena as all that, but the article's interesting anyway.

Site for The Quiet American, a traveling field recordist who makes many of his compositions and some of his source material available for download.

Nice quality recording of an ants' nest. (Note - recording is credited to Jana Winderen, though hosted on Chris Watson's site.)

"The sound is something like laser beams from a 1980s video game, but the voices are baby Nile crocodiles calling out from inside their eggs."

Two directories with some space-related audio clips, the first from NASA's INSPIRE project (very low frequency radio waves) and the second a recording of a radio burst caused by a solar flare on 4/9/2001.

"Additionally, sounds may be very faint. The amplifier settings are a compromise between picking up distant animal voices and not overcharging the system by nearby calving icebergs. So please beware of sudden extreamely loud events."

A wide sample of the geological recording and installation work of Jacob Kirkegaard. Edfjall is a personal favorite.

Kio and I share an interest in field recordings, it seems. Very cool (pun!), very rhythmic recording of a glacier melting. via wfmu.

I am, obviously (?), a sucker for field recordings of any stripe. But this is fantastic.

"Airport Symphony, commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival and Brisbane Airport Corporation, documents and synthesises the experiences of travel."

Samples of the sound of "singing / roaring / booming" dunes. Very low frequency sound produced by localized dune avalanches, with accompanying explanation, sound samples and historical instances. Amazing.

more at: 365 Days #93 - Stephen Ettinger, D.V.M. - Canine Heart Sounds (mp3s)