Earth Notes: 16WW Hot Noon Garden Ambient (2023-09)

Updated 2024-04-04.
Back garden noises with temperature hitting 32 Celsius; birds, bees, cars, planes, sirens. #fieldRecording #London #heatWave
20230909T12Z 16WW garden ambient noon hot
The background soundscape of a hot (32°C) quiet September noon in the 16WW back garden in the suburbs of London, UK.
393s "20230909T12Z 16WW garden ambient noon hot" (captions) Uploaded . Downloads:
  1. • small lo-fi very low-bandwidth audio/opus mono clip 653kB (13kbps) +
  2. • lo-fi low-bandwidth mono clip 2394kB (49kbps) ++
  3. • stereo clip 8450kB (176kbps) +++
  4. • hi-fi lossless audio/flac stereo clip 46064kB (960kbps) +++++
Transcript:
[Six and a half minutes of ambient hot garden with birds, a dog bark, low voices, distant emergency vehicle sirens, cars and aeroplanes powered by the birds' ancestors...]

Show Notes

Zoom H1n handheld sitting on garden table pointed away from the house. Normalised in part to make audible: everything was unusually quiet and still!