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Environmental sounds
This round of environmental sound clips is focused on introducing the wide variety of nature sounds available through the many CDs offered at CDeMusic. For our entire catalog of environmental CDs and books, go here.
Wild Soundscapes
Bernie Krause coined the term 'biophony' to mean the sounds of nature (as against the sounds made by humans). The following recording, taken during a trip to the Amazon, is one of many on the CD that accompanies his book Wild Soundscapes, a fascinating, easy-to-read users' manual for field recording, with practical advice on equipment, where to place microphones, and all kinds of explanations and information. More, Krause tells some wonderful stories and offers excellent examples. Recording a jaguar in the Amazon, as in the following excerpt, is simply charming.
A jaguar steps up to the mic
Rainforest Soundwalks
Steven Feld writes: "If you travel all the way into Papua New Guinea's interior from any direction you'll ultimately come to the country's Southern Highlands Province. Travel inward further still, and you'll reach Mt. Bosavi, an extinct volcano rising to eight thousand feet. In the northern foothills that ramble six thousand feet below lies a vast mid-montane rainforest. Bosavi is the name its two thousand residents give to the land and to themselves. Since 1976 I've been a regular visitor here, learning how Bosavi people create a sense of place in the rainforest ecology. "
Song of Seyak (Hooded Butcherbird)
Kaefo (Morning)
CDs by Steven Feld |
Transformations
Hildegard Westerkamp wrote: "I compose with any sound that the environment offers to the microphone, just as a writer works with all the words that a language provides ... I like to use the microphone the way photographers often use the camera ..." The following sounds are from in and near Vancouver.
Kits Beach Soundwalk
Cricket Voice
CDs by Hildegard Westerkamp |
Mutawinji
David Lumsdaine writes: "The Warrumbungle Range is a volcanic outcrop forming a spur of the Great Dividing Range reaching out into the plains of north central New South Wales ... This valley is the home of the Pied Butcherbirds which I recorded between the 15th and 17th of September, 1983 ..."
Pied Butcherbirds of Spirey Creek
CDs by David Lumsdaine |
Caratinga
These are excerpts from Douglas Quin's exquisite recordings at the Caratinga Biological Station in Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest, made during a period of a few weeks in July, 1991.
Stream at dawn
Muriqui (Woolly Spider Mondey)
Yellow Toads at night
CDs by Douglas Quin |
Sound of Light in Trees
What we're hearing here are bark beetles inside the pinyon pine of the southwestern United States. David Dunn writes: "I first began to focus my attention on these trees and their principal invaders as the demise of the pinyons where I live in northern New Mexico became quite evident ... "
Pine beetles at lunch
CDs & books by David Dunn |
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