--- In dobroide <> wrote:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> wanted to say something about me since I'm new to the group. I'm a
> amateur recordist located in south Spain with an interest in natural
> and man-made sound - including music. Been doing some bird and insect
> recordings for the last couple years, although what I like most is
> fixing ambiances at the places I frequent due to my activities as a
> field biologist (actually I'm a plant biologist, but since the plant
> kingdom is quite unprofitable as a sound source I often shift to
> animals :-). These places are mostly marshes and Mediterranean
> forests/scrublands.
>
> I believe sometime from now sonically unpolluted environments may be
> as rare as many plant and animal species, or even become extinct.
> Taking sound snapshots means to me a nice way to document what likely
> will soon be gone (sorry for the pesimistic - and informed - words).
>
> I regularly upload my work to the Freesound Project (a collaborative
> database of Creative Commons licensed sounds at
> http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/, you can search and listen there if you
> wish). Hopefully I will also contribute to this group in the near
> future. Just please excuse my poor written English, spoken is even
> worst :-)
>
> Saludos
>
> Dob R. Oide
>
Dear Dob:
Welcome! Please read the posts the Gianni and I have exchanged in the last
couple of days
about creating a website featuring great natural sound recordings. We seem to
be on the
same wavelength.
Geo Paul
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