Wind Is the Original Radio

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Wind Is the Original Radio episodes

March 03, 2023 Dawn Chorus in Misty Morning
An early Summer recording on a Mountain Plateau, from the first light to early morning.
One can listen to the dawn chorus and later to roe deer barking around the microphone array.
Recording by Ivo Vicic
1 hr 1 min
February 24, 2023 Warm Summer Morning
A warm summer soundscape in an early morning revealing a variety of close insects and birds in the background. There is a lot of movement on the ground and how the soundscape evolves throughout the one-hour recording gives away the landscape’s geography.
This place is an ancient neolithic era settlement: there are monoliths nearby, and the field in which the recording took place has an ancient Celtic stone maze that can only be seen from satellite photos.
Field recording by Steven Baber
1 hr 17 min
February 10, 2023 Papua New Guinea Cloud Forest
A cloud forest high in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, this recording features sounds from a variety of species found only in this cool, misty forests, including the spectacular King-of-Saxony Bird-of-Paradise.
Recorded by Marc Anderson in 2012.
1 hr 2 min
February 03, 2023 Mangroves at Low Tide
Beautiful recording in a morning inside the mangrove forest at the low tide inside the Utria National Park. Colombian Pacific is one of the world’s few remaining areas with no road infrastructure and still vastly intact rainforest expanses.
Field recording by Jan Brelih
1 hr 19 min
January 27, 2023 Thunder Rain At Dusk
One of the most common Geophonical sounds, they could mean both great and bad news. Each bolt of lighting releases enough power to charge a fridge for a month.
Recording by Sounding Wild in the Basque Country
57 min
January 20, 2023 A Night With Wolves
A deeply quiet Autumn night with tree branches cracking in the cold air and suddenly a shy wolf vocalizes timidly, a tawny owl joins later and finally a big howling of around a dozen of Iberian wolves happen to leave space again for the owl. Recorded in Mafra, Portugal, in the Iberian Wolf Recovery Center which lays in a beautiful Mediterranean Forest.
Recording by Melissa Pons
1 hr 4 min
January 13, 2023 Dawn Chorus of Spring in a Swedish Forest
The snow was still melting and it was deep in spots where the sunlight barely touched the ground. Beautiful lakes - large and small - make the acoustics like a mirror and call a variety of wildlife that we can listen to sometimes at the distance, other times much closer. In this long segment of the dawn chorus we can hear the tawny owl, the eurasian woodcock, the great spotted woodpecker, the tree-creeper, the european robin, the redwing, the eurasian wren, the whooper swan, the greylag goose and the great tit, between many others. Some calls I cannot recognise and I wonder if there is a red fox screaming at some point. I believe there was also the golden-eye and common loon. I've seen big big footprints (a wolf?) next to the whole skeleton of a young female elk. I've seen so many animal fresh tracks in the snow I can't forget.
Recording by Melissa Pons
1 hr 13 min
January 06, 2023 Sumter National Forest
The Sumter National Forest consists of 370,442 acres which are divided into 3 distinct sections in western and central South Carolina. The recordings from this tranquil and peaceful soundscape come from the Andrew Pickens Ranger District, which is part of the Appalachian Mountains and contains parts of the Chattooga River. The Chattooga is known as the “Crown Jewel” of the southeast and was the first river east of the Mississippi to be granted Wild and Scenic designation.
Field Recording by Jared Blake
1 hr
December 30, 2022 Winter Playlist II
A treat for the holiday season: a Winter soundscape that is very calm and grounding.
Tracklist:
Jan Brelih: Winter Rain Near a Lake
Khristos Nizamis: Wind Deep Creek Solitude
Jan Brelih: Wind Above the Forest Cliffs
Jocelyn + Melissa: Ebb Current in Rocky Shore
1 hr 10 min
December 23, 2022 Frogs croaking in the Harenna cloud forest
Night falls in the cloud forest. Several species of frogs congregate in humid areas, from jungle lakes to the smallest puddle. The soundscape is not as full on as in a lowland rainforest, which makes it much crisper and enveloping. Each discrete wildlife call seems to linger in the air for a fleeting moment, aided by the beautiful acoustics of the Afromontane forest. Conversely, the more drawn out or continuous calls offer a nice backdrop that's very easy to ignore until there is a sudden pause.
My aim here is to record the rich dawn chorus soundscapes, but discovering these nocturnal frogs is a beautiful and unexpected result of my approach to sound recording. As usual, I set up several sound recording rigs in promising areas that I've scouted previously. I leave the microphones out for 24 to 48 hours at a time, which is more than enough for wildlife and nature to go back to its normal state after I've been there and affected it with my presence.
During the day the frogs don't call much, but the cloud forest is alive with the sound of insects, birds and sometimes mammals. After dusk most birds take refuge and the scene is taken over by nocturnal inhabitants. Occasionally you can also hear a disturbed troop of baboons or Colobus monkeys call in the distance. Towards the end an African wood owl starts wailing softly. Perfect soundscape to fall asleep in the forest.
Recording by George Vlad
1 hr 6 min