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Re: Winter recording thoughts

Subject: Re: Winter recording thoughts
From: "Rob Danielson" danielson_rob
Date: Wed Jan 3, 2007 12:12 am ((PST))
I enjoy recording in winter because the background sound levels can
drop very low and you can hear more more space--especially at night.
There's usually _something_ going on near usual congregation spots
like open water springs and with the warmer winter here in Wisconsin,
nothing would surprise me. Last week I encountered owls, coyotes,
several type of rodents, wood peckers, our usual wintering birds,
ice, sleet, creaking trees. Winter pacing is slower of course.  Rob D.

At 7:04 AM -0600 12/28/06, Curt Olson wrote:
>Danny Meltzer wrote:
>
>>  It seems clear that, for those of us located in temperate zones, there
>>  is more animal activity in the warmer months.  What sounds do you like
>>  to try to record in wintertime given this relative absence of birds,
>>  etc?  What are some things you can ONLY record in winter?  Just a
>>  little brainstorm that I thought might be fun in this 'off season'
>
>It can get pretty quiet here in Minnesota during wintertime. Rich Peet
>and Mark Alt have been known to chase wintering owls. A couple years
>ago I chased sled dogs up and down the North Shore of Lake Superior.
>Missed it last year due to three grandbabies descending on us at the
>time of the race, but we're planning to return this year with better
>gear and a better idea of what to do...
>
>http://www.trackseventeen.com/media/beargrease05
>
>Curt Olson
>
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>


--
Rob Danielson
Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/





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