Hi, first time poster here. I joined the group to learn about techniques,
gear, and experiences in the field. The end product will be my next dark
ambient album, which will use only field recordings as the source. I plan
on using not only nature sounds, but also industrial sounds from factories,
the sounds of restaurants, etc. At the end of the day, though, I most enjoy
recording in nature. Animals provide the most beautiful sounds, and can
sound quite cold and foreboding when processed digitally. Are there are any
other people doing music using field recordings as the source on this list?
Thanks for letting me listen in, it's been educational so far. I have law
school finals this week (*cringe*), but after that I have a xmas break.
Hopefully I will become more of an active poster during that time!
- Nick
On 12/6/05, Steve Pelikan <> wrote:
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> Friends:
>
> I, too, would like to read a discussion of how people use their nature
> recordings: What do you do with yours?
>
> Just to start things off, here are a few random thoughts and comments on
> the topic.
>
> 1. As Martyn says, ambient recordings have potential value as scientific
> data. Here I'd point out that the value is dependent on extremely good
> documentation (supplementary data) and curatorial practices. The
> recordings aren't too much use if people who need them can't find and
> use them, or can't associate exact dates and locations etc. with them.
> A clearing house/database of available ambient recordings available for
> use could be an important tool.
>
> 2. Other uses of recordings include donating appropriate ones to
> bioacoustics archives or directly to a scientist who's interested. That
> is, some of us focus a lot of effort on documenting sounds from a
> particular organism and associating them with behavioral observations.
> Sometimes these recordings can be of use to researchers.
>
> 3. Another use of recordings is to assemble a guide to natural sounds in
> a region or to the sounds of a particular group of animals. For example,
> Jim Morgan's project on North American bird songs is extremely nice and
> highly regarded, both as a reference and as tool for learning to
> identify birds by sound. It is based solely (I believe) on donated
> recordings. So people could start similar projects, or join in on one to
> which they contribute. It'd be especially interesting to have things
> like this available on the WEB where school kids could use them easily.
>
> 4. I've entertained myself by making songrams of bird songs and insect
> sounds and thinking of them as a graphic art --- basically, calligraphy.
> Print 'em big and put 'em on the wall! I'm a complete hack at this, but
> imagine there's lots of possibilities for uses of graphical
> representations of sounds. So one could try to hook up with a graphical
> artist and see what happens.
>
> 5. I make "Birdsong Quiz" CDs that I distribute to friends and family as
> gifts. The idea is to edit together a batch of bird sounds as if they
> were being heard as one walks around in a particular location. The first
> part of the quiz is to name all the birds, the second is to specify the
> date and location where the sounds could have occurred as the appear in
> the quiz. My quizzes run between 5 and 20 minutes and are followed on
> the CD with a copy of the recording with voice-over identifications of
> the sounds. Over the years, I've started to get more sophisticated and
> based the whole quiz on an uninterrupted ambient recording as a
> background. With all the bucks people throw at birdwatching stuff these
> days, I'd bet there's commercial potential for this sort of thing.
>
> 6. Another thing I make is a bird song computer game for kids. It is
> controlled by javascript and runs in a web browser. Basically, 9 photos
> of birds appear on the screen and a song plays. User tries to click on
> the picture of the bird that is singing. Feed back is something like
> "No, that's a picture of a Blue Jay. Try again." or "Yes! That is an
> American Robin". Then there are new pictures and another recording...
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Steve P
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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