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Nature Recording Resources
Nature Sound Recordings Listening To Nature A Sound Walk Across California To get you into the whole nature recording thing, why not try this website for starters: http://www.museumca.org/naturalsounds/ If you just want access to nature sound recordings and do not want to record any, the following sites feature nature sound recordings: Nature's Music Their whole inventory can be reviewed at: http://www.naturesmusic.com/nature_sounds_products.shtml Silverlake Music While their website looks pretty hoky, they have MP3 samples, so I have included them despite their website: http://www.silverlakemusic.com/naturesoundp1.html Thunderstorms: If you really want to experience the power of thunderstorms, than yes there is a website dedicated to selling thunderstorm sounds at: http://www.thunderstorm-sounds.com/index.html Nature Songs.Com How To Record Natural Sounds: My research in how to do nature recording started with my purchase of Bernie Krause's book: "Wild Soundscapes-Discovering the Voice of the Natural World", published by Wilderness Press, Berkley, CA, ISBN 0-8997-296-9. Upon reading the book I was somewhat dissappointed in its focus on natural sound appreciation, with only one or two chapters focused on how to record natural sound. The book comes with a CD which has examples, one of which is posted on the web, it is of of a Cottonwood tree. Didn't know trees made noise, neither did I. You can check it out at: http://images.emusician.com/files/33/EMWebClips/0403/tree2.mp3 Subsequent to my purchase of the above book I found an absolutely great article by Gino Robair in Electronic Musician, published on the web in April 1, 2003, entitled "Going Wild". It features interviews with Bernie Krause, and other nature sound recording experts, and concludes with a long list of online resources. Honestly, if you are just looking for info on how to record natural sounds, than check out the above article, and don't bother with Bernie's book. The online article, "Going Wild" can be found at: http://emusician.com/ar/emusic_going_wild/ The next best online resource for how to record nature sound is the British Libary's section on wildlife recording at: http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/wiltrain.html Another great British resource is a page the BBC maintains at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/radio/dawn_chorus/sound_advice.shtml Another great resources is at Cornell University: http://birds.cornell.edu/LNS/recordingnature/recordingnature_index.html
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