Hiking and birding close to home
A new place to hike just around the corner from my house! In the Burlington Landlocked Forest there are lots of birds and other wildlife.
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Category: Nature and Sounds
Experiences with sound, in nature and human-made
New England Spring – Editing a Soundscape
I’ve got a collection of recordings from various nature reserves and conservation land in eastern Massachusetts. I’ve made the recordings over the past several years in the spring…
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“Polluted” Soundscapes
It’s hard to find spots to record nature soundscapes that don’t have some kind of traffic noise…
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Form in Music and Nature
Form in Music was the title of my college music theory textbook. Form gives music its shape. The music is paced in the moment by the tempo, but the larger shape is made by passages that repeat and develop, by the musical events that interject and interrupt and flow into each other, and how the Read More...
Turning Raindrops into MIDI
I spent way too long last night trying to find a free tool to translate my recording of rain dripping beside my window into MIDI notes. I wanted to capture the rhythm and the varying volumes so that I could map that onto musical timbres. I didn’t come up with anything free, and I didn’t Read More...