The Nature Sounds Society had a listening experience table in Muir Woods fo=
r the Winter Solstice celebration yesterday. Roberta Blake and I manned it.=
We had four sets of headphones,
1) Live MKH 40/30 MS pair focused on a rill in Redwood Creek, into 744T.
2) Playback of a stereo recording of a May dawn chorus in Cathedral Grove (=
old growth redwood forest).
3) Playback of a stereo recording of a May dawn chorus on the Dipsea Trail =
near Redwood Creek (riparian mixed forest).
4) Live Telinga EM-23s shoulder-mounted on a vest with home-made furry wind=
screens.
Though it was raining much of the day, Muir Woods' constituents are a hardy=
bunch and traffic at our table was good. The Park Service provided a pavil=
ion to keep us mostly dry. We enjoyed turning people on to nature sounds. I=
t got a little tiring hearing people say how relaxing they thought the cree=
k sounds were.
About an hour into the noon-to-five gig we heard a great crash. I hit the r=
ecord button on the 744T and caught it, thanks to the ten-second pre-record=
buffer. The mics were right on a rill in the creek, so the subtleties were=
masked. Here is a recording processed to try to bring out the event:
https://soundcloud.com/user7860487/ns121221-13-15-24-muwo-rdwd
And here are some pictures:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=3Da.10151383802595844.542542.7667058=
43&type=3D1
-Dan
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