hey all! Thought I'd share a sound I "found" this morning.
I was out walking my dog this morning, and caught our neighborhood geese all eating out of the water. The sound was astonishingly wonderful! Like the fastest tap dance imaginable. Alongside their random yet rhythmic honking it was a fantastic score and a wonderful way to start the day.
happy hearing!
I was out walking my dog this morning, and caught our neighborhood geese all eating out of the water. The sound was astonishingly wonderful! Like the fastest tap dance imaginable. Alongside their random yet rhythmic honking it was a fantastic score and a wonderful way to start the day.
happy hearing!
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Re: geese eating sounds like tap dancing
Sun, July 22, 2007 - 12:40 PMthat sounds magical, Lynn.
Rhythmic Nature sounds can be incredible.
Every year I look forward to this one bush in front of my next door neighbors house of crickets that always has two different colonies
who are chirping in unison at just slightly tempos.
For some reason they are either side of one of those bushes that people use for topiary.
If you stay in the middle, their chirps will suddenly go into unison and they suddenly
sound like you are listening to a very dry mono recording of cricket sounds, then suddenly, as they
phase out it sounds like some one has put a huge surround sound styled reverb on the sound.
It's just magical and only happens a few nights in a row every summer.
The yearly mating of thousands of frogs down by the opening to the yacht harbor is another found sound annual thrill.
I also love trying to get the really loud Mocking Birds who will sing all through the night during mating season
to see if I can 'teach' them new song.
I've done it twice so far, by loudly whistling a faux bird whistle repeatedly. It's so cool every now and then to hear them going
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Re: geese eating sounds like tap dancing
Tue, July 24, 2007 - 4:46 PMWOW! That sounds yummy! I just finally moved back into an area (read: outta the big city) where I can pay attention to these things now b/c they are around me more. I just lost hearing any beauty in urban noise. -
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Beauty is in Everything, Music is Everywhere
Fri, July 27, 2007 - 6:12 AMLynn, wrote, in the FoundSound tribe at tribe.net:
I just finally moved back into an area (read: outta the big city) where I can pay attention to these things now b/c they are around me more.
I just lost hearing any beauty in urban noise.
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I hear what you are saying but I also want to relate a story I heard years ago about the great blind jazz musician
Rashaan Roland Kirk (a sax player) that speaks to this Urban/Rural dichotomy:
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When the saxophonist John Klemmer (who was very very successful in the 70's playing smooth jazz)
was a young man, he travelled from the midwest to find his idol and unknowing mentor, Rashaan Roland
Kirk in New York City to try and study with him.
Just a kid, he nervously went to Kirks' home to meet him for the first time.
Kirk's wife met him at the door and said, "Rashaan is down the street at the bar most probably, you should go down
there to meet him."
Klemmer said thanks and went off down the road to find his hero.
A few blocks later, He saw Kirk standing on the sidewalk next to a car that had it's hood up with a guy
working on the engine which was running.
"Mr. Kirk, Mr. Kirk," Klemmer stammered, "I"ve come all the way to New York to meet you and study with you and I ......."
"SHUUUUSH," Roland Kirk suddenly interrupted him mid sentence and said
"Be Quiet! Can you hear the overtones in this engine?"
The two of them proceeded to listen to the overtones the ailing car engine was putting out
and later, John Klemmer said the incident completely changed the way that he heard all sound after that.
Beauty is in Everything, Music is Everywhere. It's all in the eye and ear of the beholder, imho.
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