Hello Hugh!
Me and my friend Walter Tilgner would be more than happy to assist you
and show you our favourite recording locations.
We both live directly at Lake Constance in Konstanz and Allensbach
across the lake from Kressbronn. We also can give you some tips where to
go in Switzerland and Alsace.
Airplanes _are_ a problem. Zurich and Basel Airports are the main source
of airplanes in the area you go to. But when you know the routes you can
avoid the worst noise.
Worse is the problem with traffic noise as the southwest of Germany and
its surrounding areas are among the most populated areas in Europe.
But one can help it a bit by choosing the location carefully away from
the big roads. Sundays usually have least traffic, also public holidays
are fine, normal weekdays are mostly very bad almost everywhere. Wind
also has to be taken into account. Whenever there are so called Foehn
winds nature recording is not really possible as due to reflections from
the air layers any noise will be enormously amplified and transported
for several kilometers.
Please reply off-list and let me know your schedule, so we can meet you.
Cheers
Volker Widmann
www.songsfromthewood.de
www.natur-tilgner.de
Hugh Livingston schrieb:
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> I am traveling to Germany in the spring and want to do some recording
> of sounds of the Schwarzwald and the Rhein for a musical project.
> Does anyone have any recommendations of spots to visit? Is there a
> lot of air traffic to worry about? The project has to do with
> imagining what Eichendorff and Schumann (poet and composer) might
> have heard in the 19th C. I am not trying to recreate that, but to
> interrogate the issues surrounding the inspiration that they got from
> the natural environment, and in general what it means to write 'river
> music' and 'forest music'.
>
> I have places to stay in Kressbonn on Bodensee, Aarau, Berne, Luzern,
> Freiburg and Strasbourg, and am looking for day trips from those
> places, possibly without a car. Any local tips would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Hugh
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