Earth Notes: English River August Ambient (2021-08)

Updated 2024-05-12.
Late summer soundscape from a small river near the English south coast with a mystery chicken or three! #river #summer #fieldRecording

Silence from me: let the burbling small river (and the chickens) speak. Plus the odd intrusion from not-distant-enough motor traffic...

A little over 11 minutes' Devon summer riparian audio...
688s "202108 small river ambient" (captions) Uploaded . Downloads:
  1. • small lo-fi very low-bandwidth audio/opus mono clip 1106kB +
  2. • lo-fi low-bandwidth mono clip 4273kB ++
  3. • stereo clip 14782kB +++
  4. • hi-fi lossless audio/flac stereo clip 79303kB +++++
Transcript:
[Ambient sounds from beside the small English river Erme in Devon, including burbling water, great tit, wood pigeon and chickens.]

Show Notes

Recorded on the Zoom H1n, 48ksps lossless stereo, with a wind muff.

Individual segments' loudness normalised to -23(dB) LUFS.

On this piece I learned to cross-fade tracks in Audacity!