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For several years I have recorded the soundscape at the same spot when I visit a cottage in west Iceland. Every time I record there I get something different and interesting, all year around.  Forestry has changed the birdlife a lot on this spot in the last 20 years.  Birds like Redwings, Common Redpoll, Eurasian […]

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After a dark winter with an awful weather nothing is as pleasant when migrant birds arrive to the country in the spring. Most birds arrive in April and May, and few species in Mars and June. So in mid May the air is loaded with birds song. What amazes me always is the fact that […]

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There are two things which are always possible to record almost everywhere, any time and all year around. That is traffic noise and all kinds of wind. Traffic noise is easy to record, but wind noise is more difficult. Wind is like an instrument or a symphony orchestra. But what makes it even more difficult […]

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This two midsummer recordings were made around four o´clock in the morning 15th of July 2017 nearby Arnarholt farm in Stafholtstungur, in west of Iceland. It is recorded on two stereo channels with two different microphones because usually every time I recorded in this place the recordings has been disturbed by traffic noise all night […]

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This recording is almost straight forward from the recording I posted about a year ago “Dawn in Stafholtstungur, part 1”. Now the traffic in the county increase slowly from previous recording, but all the time it is possible to listen to the birds activity in details around the recording place. This was recorded the 18th […]

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It is shocking how hard it is to find quiet places. Our planet is completely rumbling of humans machines. It does not matter where it is, in the ocean on land or in the sky. The situation just goes worse every year. But „quiet nature“ is not „nothing“. It can be a glorious soundscape with […]

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Wind is very often the recordist´s enemy. Especially if the rumbling noise of „hammering membrane“ is not acceptable. Some recordists may say this rumbling noise is just normal. Everyone will hear similar rumbling noise when they stay in wind. For me it sounds like „clipping distortion“. Wind protection is one of the most important thing […]

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