Squeak Attack
Tricycle Recorded by: Aaron Ximm
I'm interested in how the squeaking sound sneaks up on you within the recorded space. The sound moves throughtout the space without the need of a moving image. The atmosphere sets a particular setting and the tricycle sound sneaks up on you while you try decipher this setting.
- Anthony Capener
Ambient Soundtrack- Comments by Scott Gara
Picture by Patric Nagatani
Sound by Adam Ximm
Play SoundI really liked how he set up the beginning with loops to make an almost musical sound track I thought it was really great that someone could do that with only ambient field recorded sounds. There are so many layers and I can really appreciate the time and effort it must have taken to create a soundtrack such as this one. It is amazing that He was able to create this very practical beat from multiple recording done at different times.
GopherFrogReleaseKnapp
Boy running with stick
http://www.fotosearch.com/ITS230/itf143023/GopherFrogReleaseKnapp by Walter Knapp
The sound of the frog reminds me of running down a fence with a stick in my hand. The annoying sound it creates is also an inviting one in the memory of childhood. With the inflections at the end of each "drag" I get the sense that the child has started over from where he began. He is no longer running along the fencing, but he is enjoying the percussive sounds which he is making. He has stopped running along the fallen leaves in the quiet neighborhood because he only wants to hear the noises he is creating with his new instrument.
Katie Kildow
Steinhatchee2006A02-05c Walter Knapp
Steinhatchee2006A02-05c Walter Knapp
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/420_Field_Audio/FieldRecordingSamples/Steinhatchee2006A02-05c.mp3
playImage: forest canopy
biotron's photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/biotron/8742041/
Distinct localization - actual as well as phantom, dramatic separation between Left-Right, Near-Far, LowDb-HiDb, as well as echoing hoots/sounds conjures a vast natural environment. Meditative - Deep forest. The in-between empty spaces filled with a texture of tiny discrete sounds from miles away. I'm gonna loop it and use it to fall asleep to. (Jose Montoto)
A Murder
Image courtesy of The Connecticut Department of Wildlife Protection Copywrite 1999
Audio courtesy of Gausig
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/420_Field_Audio/FieldRecordingSamples/CrowRoostGausig.mp3When I found this track it struck me as a very intimate picture of crows’ social lives. It is rare that one will be close enough to a murder of crows to hear as many and as varied avian voices. It to me is reminiscent of a cocktail party in which a number of the guests have had a few drinks and are on the verge of getting out of hand. The chaotic chorus often lopes as one or the other bird establishes his point the loudest, but never is there more than a moment’s pause in the rhythmic, occasionally chant-like, cackling of these creatures. The picture above suggests the way I first envisioned the scene played out in the clip. Although later, as I repeated the track over and over, it became a symphony of horned echoes that reverberating in my daydreaming mind. The sound seems most aptly described as ripples, a la
Fantasia, pulsating and gyrating as each crow gradually adjusts the volume, pace, and timbre of his intonation. To add to the overt cacophony one will find the sound of the birds’ short flights from branch to branch as they vie for position in this indecipherable conversation.
Fish Rock Whistlers
Image courtesy of http://www.lasvegasbroadcasttower.com/
Mike Jorgenson's sound that he likes:
Fish_Rock_Rd_Whistlers_02Apr04 by tapes
PlayI liked this material because it conjured up two feelings at once. First it had the organic feel of some sort of animal call in the wild, but it also had the feeling of a radio transmission to outer space. Particularly I liked the shortness of the duration of the individual clicks that still had a very rich sound to them and I think the whooshing in the background really enhanced it by putting it into a location that is hard to place. It just feels really alien to me.
Tricycle
TricycleRecorded by Aaron Ximm
play hereThis clip conjures a variety of emotions, from nostalgia to mortal dread. The child's voice (presumably the tricycle rider) inevitably reminds one of a simpler past. But when stripped of its usual context, as it is here, the voice sounds almost wild, being at one point reminiscent of a whale call. The intonations of a foreign language also contribute to the alien character of the recording. When the metal-on-metal creeking of the tricycle wheels finally pans from left to right channels near the end, the already disconcerting sound seems to further penetrate the skull - particularly for headphone wearing listeners.
Image courtesty of
Dark Passage-Brennan Alcott
Far Bombay
Audio Clip: Blown Cone
By: Aaron XimmTake a trip
A brown grit street, the market, far Bombay; a calm quant place among the crowds and the normal bustle of every day life. It rings of middle working class in the evening, old friends gathered away from the street enjoying an old tune, relaxing out of the days dying sun. Its calm, at peace yet surrounded by action and well connected to more busy coves of this ancient civilization. Its atmosphere is very comforting, even calling to a weary soul on his way from the calamity of the daily routine. It is at first exotic but then becomes over whelmed by the passing-by of a truly alive and busy city. And soon we’re broken by the voice of the broadcaster making an important announcement. I feel hungry; perhaps I should get a curry, a vindelou, and a hot cup of tea. This seems like the place, perhaps I’ll chat with the locals…
Matthew 'Kid Charlemagne' Engel
Photo from:
In The Labyrinth
Peter Lindahl
Aug 2006
9/11
Audio Credit: Debbi B
A fumarole at Lassen Volcanic National Park
playThe sound I have chosen was recorded with a WL-183s, easily imagined as an underwater eruption in the midst of creating an island. The sound creates a bubbling image in my head far before the image of volcanic activity. The eruption of bubbles in my chosen image creates a fantastical approach of cooled magma reaching the surface of the water and releasing non-threatening balloons of magma and ash into the atmosphere at daybreak to travel away from the predisposed location of the volcano to an undisturbed area of the ocean awaiting natural change.
Imagining a world evolving naturally on such a disastrous day is a refreshing way to remember the man-made destruction of man-made structures creating such a negative evolution of our world.
-Holly Moore
Image: "Water Bubbles"
Author: Christopher Curnel
http://www.audiocybernetics.com/CCArt.html
JH-050417-bvr, Beaver sounds
Beaver soundsThe sound that I thought was most interesting was the Beaver Splash sound. There was an interesting quality of Etherial-ness, in the sense that it didn't feel like it was a true nature sound, at least in the sense that you would expect it to be.
It was recorded at a pond in Clatsop County, Oregon last April by John Hartog, using tree mounted wl-183 microphones and a Sony MZ-N707 recorder. The photograph can be credited to forum.pulsar.org.au/printthread.php?t=2229 on Yahoo pictures. Photographer unknown.
Here is the picture I thought might be the best image to describe the sound.
Andy Chaney
Walk in the Rain
Contact Microphone Field Recording By: Derek Holzer
Location: Mooste, EE
Date Created: 8/14/05
Play I discovered this recording, and its home site (
soundtransit.nl), last semester when Derek Holzer did a presentation in Rob’s Film 380 class. While I enjoy ambient, atmospheric recordings, such as the one Anna posted, I find my self drawn to
contact microphone recordings for their ability to isolate and transform simple sounds. The sounds of the rain drops hitting the umbrella in this piece sound so aggressive and violent, yet sparse, and I think these qualites keep me returning to the piece. The rain drops seem to change from isolated percussive beats, like embers in a fire popping, to sounding like branches of a birch tree clanking together aggressively. The whole thing begins to take on an unfettered pace, making for a dual experience of initial mystery to a feeling of anxiousness.
-Anthony Lopez
Photo Credit:Figure 1: Repairing Branches
E. Gilman
University of Florida
http://tinyurl.com/zzth9
Atrium, public library, NYC
Recording by Mike Hallenbeck
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I like this audio clip because it feels really intimate but at the same time immense. All of the noises that are heard would normally be very quiet (shuffling feet, snippets of conversation) but the space amplifies them and makes everything feel more public. There’s also a sense of inclusion that the listener gets, as if you could imagine yourself standing inside the atrium surrounded by these noises. It makes it very easy to picture the space in your head. Anna K.
Picture credit
Enchanted Dusk
Field Recording by Aaron Ximm,
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
June 17, 2002
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I've listened to this recording many times and I don't tire of it. Spacious and restful, yet packed: the unquestionably happy children's voices, the voices of the cicadas (or amphibians?) punning on their laughter and the softer crickets echoing the cicadas phrases on first passes; the low, rhythmic music and adult voices on the far left and far right on later passes. I made a diagram of the space I hear but I cannot figure out how the cicadas are perched so near the swimmers. Perhaps they are in reeds at edge of the water or in tree branches above the swimmers? Rob D.Photo credit: TROPICAL STORM FLORENCE at 07/0300Z 19.6N 52.5W 45 KT (Atlantic Ocean) http://vortex.plymouth.edu/tropical.html
Boy running with stick
Tricycle
