Contact sticks on rusty rashboard anthill car 11-9-22
- 10:20 am
- Very sunny and clear out, very small breeze, dry and cold, 35 degrees
- Put contact mic on rusty dashboard directly in front of the driver’s wheel
- There was a stack of small sticks so I started experimenting with them, first just picking them up and dropping them, and moving them around on the surface of the dashboard
- Dropping them one by one sounds so interesting - reminds me of that plinking sound when it is snowing outside and it’s very very quiet and the snow is a little heavy/hard so you can hear it falling on glass or metal or hard surfaces. Sound of the sticks falling was very gentle and muted by the rust, I did that for a while because I liked the sound
- Dragged and moved the sticks around a bit to explore the rusty surface, dragging the length of a stick along the surface with no breaks created a very textural sound
Binaural goose honking 10-27-22
- 6:55 am
- 50 degrees, windy, dry, overcast
- Wanted to keep recording because the geese were getting very noisy and honking more frequently
- Also first recording in a more open space - the previous recordings were in more enclosed areas of trail
- Insect chirps are getting louder but also more distinct from each other - I think they really are starting to wake up with the rest of the ecosystem
- Hearing the echo of goose honks across the water is awesome, I hope that comes across in the recording
- Moving my head a lot to get different perspectives of the geese and the wind
- Different pitches of goose honks !! The higher one I’ve been hearing this whole time and a few lower honks thrown in there - I wonder what they each mean
Stereo rain saddle trail end 9-6-22
- 7:05 am
- At “3 way intersection” of saddle trail and ridge trail
- Stereo recording:
- higher canopy and higher elevation makes the rain sound much more distant and gentle (rain was also dying down slightly)
- Allowed me to focus much more on the sound of bugs, footsteps, rain splatting
- I didn’t even know there were audible insects until I started recording and heard the steady chirping!
- The sound of the rain on a solid layer of wet leaves was so cool! I could hear the difference between rain on the leaves vs. on the rocks and gravel path, on the leaves it was more a “splat” while on the rocks it was a cleaner sound
