Nature Track

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What's Nature Track about?

Nature Track is a podcast that opens a window on the beautiful sounds of the Australian wilderness. These long, uninterrupted soundscapes are the perfect relaxing soundtrack for your work, exercise, meditation or sleep. Each unique track is carefully recorded on location in a different part of Australia by the ABC’s nature specialist Ann Jones.

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LAST EPISODE

The Soundtrack of Australia

08.14.2023

In 1977, we sent a Golden Record of the sounds of Earth into space with NASA's Voyager probes. This 'cosmic' calling card inspired the program team to make this - a golden record of Australian sounds. It varies from Nature ...

Nature Track episodes:

08.14.2023 The Soundtrack of Australia In 1977, we sent a Golden Record of the sounds of Earth into space with NASA's Voyager probes. This 'cosmic' calling card inspired the program team to make this - a golden record of Australian sounds. It varies from Nature ...
09.20.2022 Where there is water No music. No voices. Just the sound of a creek bed in outback Australia. In the Murchison district in Western Australia you're surrounded by low lying ranges where rocks have been found that are 4.4 billion years old — they're ...
09.13.2022 The storm front No music, no human voices. Just the sound of an epic summer storm rolling on through the evening. I recorded this at my home. It had been a hot day, and in the late afternoon there was a crack of ...
09.05.2022 Sounds like camping No music, no human voices, just the sound of night falling over bushland near Narrabri, recorded by the ABC's Ann Jones. It sounds like camping. Narrabri is in North West NSW, in an incredibly fertile farming area. And yep, you ...
08.29.2022 Quiet shoreline at sunset No music. No voices. Just the sound of a quiet ocean inlet in the early evening, recorded by the ABC's Dr Ann Jones. This shoreline is home to many wallabies; will they make any sound? This was recorded over the ...
08.23.2022 An hour before dawn in arid WA No music. No human voices. Just the sound of a frog chorus and a pre-dawn rain shower in arid Western Australia, recorded on location by the ABC's Dr Ann Jones. Get in a car in Perth and drive 4 hours ...
08.16.2022 Life in a forest of giants No music, no voices. Just the sound of the mountain ash forest, recorded by the ABC's Dr Ann Jones. The mountain ash is the tallest flowering plant in the world, a eucalypt that can reach 90m in height. And beneath ...
08.16.2021 Heavy rain and desert thunder No music, no talking, just the sound of a rain storm in the desert. Wiluna is a town on the Traditional lands of the Martu people in Western Australia. It’s on gorgeous arid country, about 960km east of Perth. After ...
08.12.2021 Dawn at the creek No music, no voices, just imagine you’re camping beside a creek in early spring. Listening Notes from Ann: It was the first hot day of Spring on Wadawurrung Country west of Melbourne. Out of bed before the sun, I walked ...
08.09.2021 Midnight frog chorus No music, no voices, just the sound of night time at a swamp on Wadawarrung Country in Victoria. Listening Notes from Ann Jones: There are at least three species of frogs calling all the way through this recording – maybe ...
08.05.2021 Lyrebird songs in a Gippsland rainforest No music, no voices, just the sound of the forest waking up. I made this recording on a wintery morning, outside a hut high up in the mountains of Gippsland on Gunaikurnai land. I arrived in the dark and didn’t ...
08.02.2021 Carolling magpies in Western Australia No music, no voices, just the sound of the forest waking up. This recording was made while traveling through Whadjuk Nyoongar land, WA. The birds differ between east and west Australia. That huge swathe of arid country in between has ...
07.29.2021 Gentle rain on a tin roof in the outback No music, no voices, just the sound of a spring shower hitting a corrugated iron roof. This recording was made on Wadawurrung Country, in west Victoria, Australia. Listening notes from Ann Jones: 00:02:00 Wind in the trees, and grey currawongs ...
07.22.2021 Peaceful morning forest songs No music, no voices, just the sound of the forest coming to life early one morning near Canberra -- where the gum trees grow small and with twisting white trunks. In the twilight of the morning I creep out from ...
07.21.2021 Relaxing birdsong by the ocean No music, no voices, just the sound of the Roebuck Bay mudflats near Broome, WA. Hear the breeze across the water, crabs and mudskippers flipping and flopping, and a tide that slowly comes in. Roebuck Bay is on the traditional ...
07.20.2021 Dawn chorus in the mountains No music, no voices, just the sound of a valley halfway up a Tasmanian mountain. This soundscape is full of birds and breeze echoing backwards and forwards across a reservoir. Kunyani is swirled with mist and the city of Hobart ...
07.19.2021 Calm, flowing creek with night-time frog calls No music, no voices, just the sound of a gentle stream and frogs calling on a still, cool night in regional Victoria. Moonlight floods the landscape of Wadawurrung country. Big, old candlebarks stand still and silent and a creek flows ...

Nature Track

What's Nature Track about?

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Nature Track episodes:

The Soundtrack of Australia

Where there is water

The storm front

Sounds like camping

Quiet shoreline at sunset

An hour before dawn in arid WA

Life in a forest of giants

Heavy rain and desert thunder

Dawn at the creek

Midnight frog chorus

Lyrebird songs in a Gippsland rainforest

Carolling magpies in Western Australia

Gentle rain on a tin roof in the outback

Peaceful morning forest songs

Relaxing birdsong by the ocean

Dawn chorus in the mountains

Calm, flowing creek with night-time frog calls