Tag: soundscapes
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New England Spring – Editing a Soundscape
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Read more: New England Spring – Editing a SoundscapeI’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
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Read more: “Polluted” SoundscapesIt’s hard to find spots to record nature soundscapes that don’t have some kind of traffic noise…
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Singing Machines Part 3
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Read more: Singing Machines Part 3Reminiscing… I was hiking the Monadnock-Sunapee trail on an August Saturday near our cabin on a New Hampshire lake. I was in the woods at least a quarter mile away from shore and I could hear the motorboats, making endless circles around the lake. It was my homing beacon, better than any compass. I could…
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Singing Machines Part 2
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Read more: Singing Machines Part 2The propeller of the little 9-row airplane that flies from Phoenix to Flagstaff Arizona hums low, the fan warbles at a mid-range pitch, and then the whole plane shakes like the butt-kickers at the IMAX theater as we take off. As we rise higher, the puddle-jumper thrums a pumping pulse about 60 beats/minutes until it…
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Singing Machines Part 1
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Read more: Singing Machines Part 1It’s a cool August morning at our cabin. The quartz heater next to me plays a perfect fourth over and over as the thermostat switches from low to high and back again. A tractor-trailer truck makes an eerie whistling glissando as it speeds downhill on I-89 near the welcome center in Vermont. Was it a…