11/ 3 - Tuesday starting at around 8:00 I went up to the abandoned car on Anthill Trail with Sofia and Zoe.
- Temperature was abnormally warm for the time of year, on the way up there was really light, misty precipitation but it eventually subsided by the time we arrived to our destination
- Due to the leaves and water the ground was very slippery which made the ascent and descent more challenging than usual.
Binaural
Recording 1:
- For this recording I walked around the clearing with the fire pit, it at this point was starting to get windy and you could hear it a little in the recording
Recording 2, 3 & 4:
- I waited a little while between recording 1 and 2, at this point the wind had really begun to pick up. In these recordings I experimented with moving in and out of the car, which really did change the sound as it blocked the wind from the mics, creating a noticeable drop in fullness of the sound. During these recordings you can also hear banging on the car from sofia and zoe doing their contact recordings, which I thought was interesting as it shows a different perspective of similar sounds to what I had recorded earlier on different microphones.
Recording 2: End of Forest Loop Trail
- Minimal Wind
- Less tree cover
- Far from road
- 80 degrees
- At junction of Forest Loop and connector trail
- Stereo recording has a lot of sounds from unidentified fruit (picture enclosed) falling from high elevations and cracking through the branches
- Contact recording done on thin tree brushing hand against branch and tapping it, as well as rubbing it against a nearby tree branch
Oct 13th - Tuesday around 2:00PM:
- I went out in search of biophonies and ended up walking all the way up the field trail until I found a particularly loud bunch of bugs chirping and buzzing somewhere in the grass in the field trail. This was the first time I in earnest attempted to record and I wanted to get a few different shots of this one, however, about two minutes into my first recording I gave up as there were so many aggressive, giant flies that were biting into my exposed skin (I had short-sleeved everything on at the time) After shutting off my recorder I ran away
Around 3:25
- Defeated, I walked back home, vowing to try again another time, however near the connector road entrance of marsh trail a woodpecker appeared and I immediately began to record it
- Temperature was around 68 degrees
- Wind was near-zero
- The woodpecker got a little far away near the end but it was interesting to hear I had never really heard one before