We’ve just released the second entry in the Ecogothic/Ecoacoustic series, an ongoing project that invites recordists and sound artists to listen to the sounds of gothic nature in field recordings and/or remixed and reimagined sounds.
This entry in the series pairs recordings from two sessions listening to birds of prey. These were recorded in the same location, a wooded area in Suffolk County, New York, with a large raptor population. The first track is a mostly untreated field recording consisting of ten minutes of rain, hooting owls, and a distant train. The second is a shorter loop of birdsong punctuated by the cry of a Cooper’s hawk. That clip is played forward, then in reverse, then in both directions at once.
If you have recordings of your own to share, or if you want to use these mostly raw recordings as the basis for your own remixed and reimagined sounds, visit our submission guidelines to read about how to get involved, and check out our open, ongoing projects. Gothic Listening invites both original submissions and reimaginings or remixes of any of the project’s existing creative-commons-licensed sounds.
Image credit: adapted from a photograph by Tony Hisgett, licensed under CC-BY-2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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