This month’s piece is an unprocessed field recording capturing the sounds of the recent wind storm, on December 23, 2022, as an arctic front created a sudden chill throughout much of central and eastern North America. While there were devastating blizzards and snowfall not too far away, at this recording site, a house at the edge of the woods, the main effect was an extreme cold, and high winds that (in the recording) can be heard loudly in the winter-bare trees and wind chimes.
Listen to it attentively or inattentively; treat it as an ambient background for meditative reflection or for your everyday business; or sample it for your own purposes, musical or otherwise.
This is the third 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. 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.
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