Just a few sound recordings. I'll put more up once I have a permanent site.
Morning bird song at Yarrangobilly Caves House.
Wind behind Frog Hollow.
A recording of wind blowing through a gully in bushland.
Wind over the scrub at Fort Rock, Blackheath NSW.
Microphones were placed within the scrub near a cliff edge to record the high winds blowing over and through the scrub.
Grasslands National Park.
Grasslands National Park is by Vale Marie in southern Saskatchewan. My interest in recording at Grasslands National Park came after reading of Gordon Hempton’s work. Through the basic criteria of “no anthrophony for at least 15 minutes or longer during daylight hours”, Hempton classifies Grasslands as one of “the last great quiet places” on the planet.
As part of my research progression to record the lowest level of the soundscape I travelled to Grasslands National Park in June 2016. It is largely free of all human sound, the wildlife is low in volume and consists mainly of bird song, the occasional distant call of a Bison and the always-chirping Prairie Dogs. The geographic sounds are minimal with low-lying grasses being the prime vegetation. The soundscape of the vast grasslands is of an untarnished, natural quietude. While there was sound created by circling storms, I did mange to find periods of stillness and placidity. On a still day it is a very quiet natural place.
But, capturing recordings of the soundscape that largely eliminates primary sounds was made exceptionally difficult by the chirping Prairie Dog colonies. Birds could be limited by choosing the time of day to record and other wildlife sounds were minimal but the chirping Prairie Dogs were a constant.
This recording includes the Prairie Dogs chirping with bird song, all of which are recorded from a distance, the recording is low in volume because the location itself is very quiet.
I went further into the park to get away from the Prairie Dogs. This recording is at Frenchman River Valley. Even though there was some wind that can be heard blowing through the grass, along with some birdcall and insect sounds, this is the quietest recording I captured in Grasslands.
Morning bird song at Yarrangobilly Caves House.
Wind behind Frog Hollow.
A recording of wind blowing through a gully in bushland.
Wind over the scrub at Fort Rock, Blackheath NSW.
Microphones were placed within the scrub near a cliff edge to record the high winds blowing over and through the scrub.
Grasslands National Park.
Grasslands National Park is by Vale Marie in southern Saskatchewan. My interest in recording at Grasslands National Park came after reading of Gordon Hempton’s work. Through the basic criteria of “no anthrophony for at least 15 minutes or longer during daylight hours”, Hempton classifies Grasslands as one of “the last great quiet places” on the planet.
As part of my research progression to record the lowest level of the soundscape I travelled to Grasslands National Park in June 2016. It is largely free of all human sound, the wildlife is low in volume and consists mainly of bird song, the occasional distant call of a Bison and the always-chirping Prairie Dogs. The geographic sounds are minimal with low-lying grasses being the prime vegetation. The soundscape of the vast grasslands is of an untarnished, natural quietude. While there was sound created by circling storms, I did mange to find periods of stillness and placidity. On a still day it is a very quiet natural place.
But, capturing recordings of the soundscape that largely eliminates primary sounds was made exceptionally difficult by the chirping Prairie Dog colonies. Birds could be limited by choosing the time of day to record and other wildlife sounds were minimal but the chirping Prairie Dogs were a constant.
This recording includes the Prairie Dogs chirping with bird song, all of which are recorded from a distance, the recording is low in volume because the location itself is very quiet.
I went further into the park to get away from the Prairie Dogs. This recording is at Frenchman River Valley. Even though there was some wind that can be heard blowing through the grass, along with some birdcall and insect sounds, this is the quietest recording I captured in Grasslands.
