I searched for such a thread. Found nothing. If this is redundant, please delete.
Peaceful video with great recording of ice that sounds like ELF/VLF recordings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaTDfK5o3rE
"Earlier this winter, Henrik Trygg filmed his friend Mårten Ajne skating on less than two inches of lake ice. The result was a mini-documentary that captured the eerie, beautiful sounds of bending ice."
What?? It's about time for this thread, then.
More ice: https://youtu.be/Q2VRbGetzUU
I have an insane full moon frog orgy recording I need to do something with. Love this stuff, even when absolutely nothing is happening.
One of my favorites is something I think Dylan Nyoukis posted years ago; recording from a buddhist temple where it's this extremely loud drone of crickets being drowned by out these evenly spaced, resonant bell tones. Will see if I can find it on an HD somewhere...
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Various_Artists_Sonic_Mmabolela/
Francisco Lopez and a revolving door of others doing pure 90% field recording work with an African flavor - 10% involve electronics/instruments which I tended to skip, but the pure field recording ones are great as sleep material. Insects, birds, distant animals mostly. Some fairly "harsh."
Daniel Menche's Raw Recording Series is great. My picks are "Ant Hill", "School Basements" and "Sea Lions Barking".
https://danielmenche.bandcamp.com/album/raw-recording-series
I think Chris Watson is somewhat 'famous' for this ?
https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/album/south-africa-recordings
Raw recordings, but he's influenced these in a fantastic way. Raw indeed. Volume jacked? Definitely have a great feel to them, whereas some straight field recordings can come off as sterile. These do not. Loud and powerful. Like they've been manipulated, but not. Hands To-ish even.
https://www.discogs.com/Alan-Lamb-Archival-Recordings-Primal-Image-Beauty/release/170796
One I used to play often.
Quote from: Zeno Marx on January 13, 2019, 10:40:50 PM
https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/album/south-africa-recordings
Raw recordings, but he's influenced these in a fantastic way. Raw indeed. Volume jacked? Definitely have a great feel to them, whereas some straight field recordings can come off as sterile. These do not. Loud and powerful. Like they've been manipulated, but not. Hands To-ish even.
Thanks, I listened to some of this last night. Quite immersive.
Some of his ritual work sounded great too, this one especially
https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/album/clearing
Felix Hess (friend of Remko Scha) released 4 tapes and one LP with frog sounds in the 80s.. https://www.discogs.com/artist/279315-Felix-Hess
Toy bizarre - kdi dctb 180
Peter kastner - Bastard 1-5
Aarniaallot, a small label closely related to Aural Hypnox in Finland, has released three binaural "3D" nature recordings on CD/digi in 2014:
- Koskelle ("To the Rapids)
- Tulilla ("At the Fire")
- Soutu ("Rowing")
https://aarniaallot.bandcamp.com (https://aarniaallot.bandcamp.com)
These were never targeted at the "musical audience" really, so they're rather hard to find at the moment via the usual channels. I believe NHFA Store has a pile of them, still.
I was just listening to "Soutu" CD yesterday. All these three CD's are good. There is nothing "musical" about them. No cutting, no adjusting, no effects. Just something "happening". And this something tends to be highly textured with small detail.
More recent Finnish field recordings focused work:
Got JAZZHAND tape, where it is focused a lot into field recordings, but within this, is buried details like distant screaming happening in the city soundscape. Not to be confused with C. Spencer Yeh project under almost same name. I liked a lot this tape, even if it doesn't come out as masterpiece. It comes out as sort of unique. Mixing field recordings with things that happen within soundscape and quite surprisingly takes turn into electronic sound and back to field recordings.
Gave the Francisco Lopez/John Duncan - Nav 2CD (2000) a go a couple weeks ago. Didn't much hit me, but when Noisextra mentioned the Lopez Through The Looking-Glass 5CD set (2009), it seemed like a good idea. I don't know where you draw the line, but I was surprised Addy En El País De Las Frutas Y Los Chunches (1997) wasn't included. Maybe because it was already reissued once before? That's such a great listen. Highly recommended. As for the box set, I was already very familiar with La Selva and Buildings (New York). La Selva is a Lopez favorite and right up there with Addy. I didn't know Sub Rosa gave La Selva an odd reissue a couple years ago. CD4, Qal'at Abd'Al-Salam - O Parladoiro Desamortuxado (also issued on CD back in 1995), was new to me. Old recordings with more of an industrial and manipulated vibe to them. Such a great feel that I probably mistakenly don't associate with Lopez. How are the Nowhere - Short Pieces 1983 to 2003 and 1980-82 releases?
EDIT: CD5 of this Lopez set is more of what I refer to as Trente Oiseaux sound, and it is from 2008. A let down after the first four discs of greatness.
Quote from: Eigen Bast on March 13, 2018, 10:46:38 PM
I have an insane full moon frog orgy recording I need to do something with. Love this stuff, even when absolutely nothing is happening.
One of my favorites is something I think Dylan Nyoukis posted years ago; recording from a buddhist temple where it's this extremely loud drone of crickets being drowned by out these evenly spaced, resonant bell tones. Will see if I can find it on an HD somewhere...
Did you ever find the recording? It sounds really interesting.
As for nature recordings in general, I especially like recordings of bird calls and songs. I have a lot of birds in my yard, and have made many recordings of them. It's really fun to manipulate them by shifting the pitches and speed.
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on May 01, 2020, 06:49:03 PM
As for nature recordings in general, I especially like recordings of bird calls and songs. I have a lot of birds in my yard, and have made many recordings of them. It's really fun to manipulate them by shifting the pitches and speed.
When I think of bird recordings and ornithology, it's Bernard Fort. His recordings can be a little dry, but if you're into birds, he's probably the person.
Quote from: Zeno Marx on May 01, 2020, 08:22:50 PM
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on May 01, 2020, 06:49:03 PM
As for nature recordings in general, I especially like recordings of bird calls and songs. I have a lot of birds in my yard, and have made many recordings of them. It's really fun to manipulate them by shifting the pitches and speed.
When I think of bird recordings and ornithology, it's Bernard Fort. His recordings can be a little dry, but if you're into birds, he's probably the person.
Thanks, I never heard of him before. So I will have to check out some of his work. By any chance do you know what kind of birds he would usually record (i.e. parrots, common finches, crows, etc.)?
Edit: I just looked him up on discogs, and it looks like all kinds of birds make it into his work.
I did! Ill up this weekend, thanks for the prompt.
Quote from: Eigen Bast on May 01, 2020, 08:34:03 PM
I did! Ill up this weekend, thanks for the prompt.
Cool! I will look forward to it.
Yesterday I was going out of isolation because of the lightning going on and enjoyed the heavy weather and thunder sounds. But it was over way too soon. Anyone knows good recordings of heavy weather & thunder sounds ?
Quote from: W.K. on May 01, 2020, 09:17:31 PM
Yesterday I was going out of isolation because of the lightning going on and enjoyed the heavy weather and thunder sounds. But it was over way too soon. Anyone knows good recordings of heavy weather & thunder sounds ?
Paysage d'Hiver made good use of recordings of winter storms and wind all across his discography (not sure about thunder though).
Quote from: W.K. on May 01, 2020, 09:17:31 PM
Yesterday I was going out of isolation because of the lightning going on and enjoyed the heavy weather and thunder sounds. But it was over way too soon. Anyone knows good recordings of heavy weather & thunder sounds ?
Daniel Menche has a 3" CDR called "Blood of the Land" which is some extreme NW downpour sounds unprocessed, think there is some thunder in the mix too. I may actually have some NM lightning storm recordings, ill up tommorrow if I find them.
https://danielmenche.bandcamp.com/track/blood-of-the-land
This track of mine is layers of field recordings from my old yard in rural NM, includes some of that storm recording. Fun to live between a highway and a catholic church...(veers into noise around around the 6 minute mark)
https://ineffableslime.bandcamp.com/track/tinntinnabulum
I think Menche might have more than one rain/thunder recording. He would contact mic a window as it gets hit with rain? Sneak a mic underneath an old weighted window in a thunderstorm? I checked the bandcamp, but maybe they were on his old blog?
Frog recording
https://soundcloud.com/user-992432638/olympia-wa-cooper-point-spring-18-frogs
And the fourth of July
https://soundcloud.com/user-992432638/olympia-wa-last-fourth-summer-19
One i occasionaly listen to is Yannick Dauby's "La rivière penchée" ("The leaning river" in french).
Consists mostly of objects sounds and "watery" textures, plus some birds and insects on last tracks:
https://kalerne.bandcamp.com/album/la-rivi-re-pench-e
The vinyl edition is a simple yet beautiful piece of art.
Andrea Penso's work often falls into these categories. He has two releases on what seems to be his own label, Canti Magnetici, and one on Joy De Vivre. I've really enjoyed all three. Opaque, evocative and sort of sad tape music. Slow-moving, lonely sound collage.
Quote from: W.K. on May 01, 2020, 09:17:31 PM
Yesterday I was going out of isolation because of the lightning going on and enjoyed the heavy weather and thunder sounds. But it was over way too soon. Anyone knows good recordings of heavy weather & thunder sounds ?
BJ Nilsen and Chris Watson did a really good CD based on thunder and storms called Storm. https://www.discogs.com/Chris-Watson-BJ-Nilsen-Storm/release/805011
BJ Nilsen also have had a project going through the whole april where he has recorded a different part of Amsterdam each day and put it soundcloud. Here is an article about it and links to the recordings. https://acloserlisten.com/2020/05/04/bj-nilsen-pending/?fbclid=IwAR1j3hkv1QSKXCxASU0_yYkpFCO5lsbFGzYB61GHWi24OvjL2iiKGB4iRV8
Thanks guys.
A recent recording of mine
https://soundcloud.com/soloman-tump/24042020a
20 minutes of a few recorded pieces from the industrial estate where I work. Layered and slightly boosted where necessary. Bird song, air craft, vehicles, metallic scrapes, compressors, etc... Quite a pleasing listen to my ears
https://danielmenche.bandcamp.com/album/raw-recording-series - some as mentioned in this thread before.
Quote from: ashraf on March 16, 2018, 04:31:25 AM
Daniel Menche's Raw Recording Series is great. My picks are "Ant Hill", "School Basements" and "Sea Lions Barking".
https://danielmenche.bandcamp.com/album/raw-recording-series
Thanks for the recommendation, I've been looking for more conceptual work revolving around nature after listening to Kjostad's Glacial Lake. https://kjostad.bandcamp.com/album/glacial-lake
Recorded last night. Marsh sounds, tree frogs, leopard frogs, cicadas
Planning to leave the mic at this spot overnight soon to get a longer recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sctaIoBzeHk
I started a field recordings blog thing last year. Urban and natural settings. The texts are fairly personal and mostly intended for family members and close friends - feel free to ignore them and just play the audio:
https://www.jbalsinek.net/ (https://www.jbalsinek.net/)