Hello,
I am Ed Anson, and I recently joined the group. I've been lurking
awhile, just to get a feeling for how things go here.
I have been working with video and audio for a few years now, strictly
as a hobby. Recently, I have become more interested in just recording
the sounds around me -- especially the natural sounds.
I live in Andover, MA, which is about 20 miles north of Boston. For a
suburban small town, we have a fair amount of preserved land. Between
the state forest, the Conservation Commission and the AVIS
organization, we have more than 5000 acres of conservation land in
town. Unfortunately, the town is also home to two interstate highways
and four state highways, so traffic noise is always a problem.
Consequently, I do my most serious nature recordings at sunrise, before
the traffic starts getting loud. Although it's a beautiful time of day,
I'm not really a morning person, so I don't do it as often as I
otherwise might. But I'm starting to consider the possibilities of
midnight recording.
I came here mostly to listen and learn. But I might insert a thought
now and then when I think I have something to add.
My ISP gives me a small quota for online data, so I have posted about
five minutes from a recording I made last May, near a pond in the
middle of town. The pond is part of a 314 acre preserved area that is
home to about 38 species of birds as well as many other living things.
I arrived at twilight, to record the morning chorus.
http://home.comcast.net/~edanson/PondAmbience320.mp3
http://home.comcast.net/~edanson/PondAmbience56.mp3
These two links are the same recording, at 320k and 56k bits per
second, respectively.
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