For World Listen Day 2013 (http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/world-listening-day-2013/) I thought I'd post something a little different from my usual environmental recordings. This piece was recorded from the window of the ACE Hotel, 20W 29th Street, New York City, just before 1am Sunday 24 February 2013. One first pass, it may seem like a typical city soundscape. Traffic. Distant voices. Hum. However, to my ears it was distinctly different to what I was familiar with. I live in a busy city, Sydney, in Australia. I'm used to these sounds. But as I sat there listening to these sounds, the subtle differences in the sounds, the sources of which were all too familiar, from what my ears were accustomed to sounded somehow new. Unique. I guess this taps into the ideas behind World Listening Day, it isn't just the sounds, its what you hear.

1am New York City 24 February 2013

Snowmelt

Porcupine Stream

Rennix Forest

Deep Valley

Boundaries

Fallen Trees On The Far Shore

Landscapes, Shared

Whispered Surfaces

River Reflections

Cold Weather

Floodwater Debris

Hidden Paths, Animal Tracks

Drawn From River Water

Beyond, Winter Sun

Recorded early one morning in April 2011. The location was a small woodland directly behind coastal sandunes near Byron Bay on the NSW far north coast. These types of habitats are some of my favourite to record in, there are usually lots of birds about and the dynamics of the soundscape change from day to day with the amount of swell and wave action on the beach. Sometimes the rumble of the waves is a little too much though.

Behind the sand dunes

One of my major study sites is Hexham Swamp in the NSW coast new Newcastle. Over the past decade, the site has been the subject of one of the largest wetland rehabilitation projects in the southern hemisphere. Part of the rehabilitation projects has been the reintroduction of tidal flows to the wetland and as part of that process, an old pipelines that once acted as drains have been decomissioned. The old pipes had been discarded onsite and these recordings were made on an extremely windy day from a shaltered space inside the pipes.

Abandoned Drains

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