mfrench
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In case some of you miss hearing what flowing water sounds like, rather than the solid ice form.
Trying something different here. A nature ambient recording.
Moving Waters
I stuck this one into Community Audio at Archive.Org, because its not music. And, I don't have to ask for permission, because its my recording of nature. It is Audio, and being offered to a community.
Rationalized well enough?
Go.
I used to live in this trailer park in Laguna Beach. Its bit of notoriety was it being the final resting place of the Long Trailer from the Ricky and Lucy movie.
Well, there was that, and, we had this gazillion dollar view, looking out over the Pacific Ocean, with an uninterrupted 180º panoramic views, and, immediate access to the beach. It didn't suck.
The beach, had a small isolated horseshoe shaped cove that had two bits of massive solid rock formations that were a bit like giant aggregate concrete, very cementious like; you wouldn't want to fall on them; cheese grater comes to mind. It also had layering of sandstone that are weak. The ocean ate at the sandstone layers, and caused erosion of the cliff face, and caused a natural arch to form, and be pushed back to its present location..
Over millennia, the arch was pushed back by wave action eating at the cliff face, aided by the softer layer of sandstone erosion.
This erosion area formed what we called the Grotto.
I'd go down there fishing, and swimming, and always loved the sound of the grotto.
The grotto is shielded by a massive solid stone formation on the open ocean side. On one side is open ocean, and on the backside of this same masive stone formation is the Grotto.
Sadly, the trailer park, and all of its charm was sold to a conglomerate, who built a mega-hotel, and spa, with some contrived name with a faux accent.
Sarge and I moved on from paradise,....
I got a hankering to go and capture all of that Grotto goodness one night. So, I packed my rig, and headed to the coast.
Rig: DPA4022 -> Grace Lunatec V3 -> Sony PCM-M1 DAT (yeah, were reaching back quite a way here).
So I threw my recording bag over my shoulder, and hit the beach to the south of my destination; PROBLEM!!.....
I had to cross a coastal stream where it hit the ocean, normally either not there, or, ankle deep. Not this friggin time.
It was flowing fairly hard, and, much to my surprise and near panic, very quicksand-like when I got to mid steam, already over my knees, before hitting bottomess sand. Literal quicksand.
****! I've crossed this stream a million times, and never gotten the tops of my ankles wet, and now suddeny, I've got a creek to my right, and ocean waves to my left, and I'm sinking,... with a $8k recording bag over my shoulder, and I'm waist deep in water and sinking.
I thrashed and thrashed, and finally made my way out of it,... and forward to my objective, the Grotto, about a half mile north,.....
The rest, mostly uneventful, except that I walked out via the resort, to avoid sinking in quicksand again.
The Pond Waterfall,....
That is the return flow from my goldfish pond that I recorded the next morning to burn off more tape. I did a couple of different perspectives.
The Grotto scene,....
1) Inside the Grotto pt.1
2) Inside the Grotto pt.2
These tracks are from where the water enters the grotto, behind the massive shield stone formation. The mics were on the furthest right rock in the shadow, behind the large shield rock formation.
Inside the grotto, at low tide, and the cementious stone:
These, ^^, are the deep noise making, glorpy passages and channels that were making noise at the higher tide, when I was recording.
3) Inside the Grotto pt.3
4) Inside the Grotto pt.4
These tracks are literally water flowing deep under the cliff, in an extended channel that extends under the earth, and is the force that is carving the arch stone.
That channel starts at the bottom left corner of the image, in the image above ^, and diagonals towards the arch opening. You can see it takes dead aim at the arch.
These tracks have some amazing deep natural bass notes going on. They are giant air bubbles and water flowing and gurgling in an underground tidal tunnel, that I mic'd from an opening along its side.
Wet? You ought to feel like you're swimming in a grotto with these tracks.
5) Facing Open Ocean pt.1
6) Facing Open Ocean pt.2
After sampling the grotto, I went up onto the massive shield stone formation, in the foreground, and, focused the mics out over the ocean.
There are waves breaking along an abrupt reef face, and across the reef shelf.
7) Waterfall pt.1
8 ) Waterfall pt.2
This is the return flow for my goldfish pond that I built. I built the return flow intentionally to make a lot of gurgling noises, to provide the patio with some white noise to cover traffic, and other life noises.
I labeled the DAT as Moving Waters, many years ago. So, I'm sticking with it.
Moving Waters
Ambient Recordings by Mike French
TFH — A Journey to the Impact Zone
DPA4022 stereo pair XY-stereo 90º Coincident Stereo
Grace Lunatec V3
Sony PCM-M1 DAT
https://archive.org/details/MovingWaters
Trying something different here. A nature ambient recording.
Moving Waters
I stuck this one into Community Audio at Archive.Org, because its not music. And, I don't have to ask for permission, because its my recording of nature. It is Audio, and being offered to a community.
Rationalized well enough?
Go.
I used to live in this trailer park in Laguna Beach. Its bit of notoriety was it being the final resting place of the Long Trailer from the Ricky and Lucy movie.
Well, there was that, and, we had this gazillion dollar view, looking out over the Pacific Ocean, with an uninterrupted 180º panoramic views, and, immediate access to the beach. It didn't suck.
The beach, had a small isolated horseshoe shaped cove that had two bits of massive solid rock formations that were a bit like giant aggregate concrete, very cementious like; you wouldn't want to fall on them; cheese grater comes to mind. It also had layering of sandstone that are weak. The ocean ate at the sandstone layers, and caused erosion of the cliff face, and caused a natural arch to form, and be pushed back to its present location..
Over millennia, the arch was pushed back by wave action eating at the cliff face, aided by the softer layer of sandstone erosion.
This erosion area formed what we called the Grotto.
I'd go down there fishing, and swimming, and always loved the sound of the grotto.
The grotto is shielded by a massive solid stone formation on the open ocean side. On one side is open ocean, and on the backside of this same masive stone formation is the Grotto.
Sadly, the trailer park, and all of its charm was sold to a conglomerate, who built a mega-hotel, and spa, with some contrived name with a faux accent.
Sarge and I moved on from paradise,....
I got a hankering to go and capture all of that Grotto goodness one night. So, I packed my rig, and headed to the coast.
Rig: DPA4022 -> Grace Lunatec V3 -> Sony PCM-M1 DAT (yeah, were reaching back quite a way here).
So I threw my recording bag over my shoulder, and hit the beach to the south of my destination; PROBLEM!!.....
I had to cross a coastal stream where it hit the ocean, normally either not there, or, ankle deep. Not this friggin time.
It was flowing fairly hard, and, much to my surprise and near panic, very quicksand-like when I got to mid steam, already over my knees, before hitting bottomess sand. Literal quicksand.
****! I've crossed this stream a million times, and never gotten the tops of my ankles wet, and now suddeny, I've got a creek to my right, and ocean waves to my left, and I'm sinking,... with a $8k recording bag over my shoulder, and I'm waist deep in water and sinking.
I thrashed and thrashed, and finally made my way out of it,... and forward to my objective, the Grotto, about a half mile north,.....
The rest, mostly uneventful, except that I walked out via the resort, to avoid sinking in quicksand again.
The Pond Waterfall,....
That is the return flow from my goldfish pond that I recorded the next morning to burn off more tape. I did a couple of different perspectives.
The Grotto scene,....
1) Inside the Grotto pt.1
2) Inside the Grotto pt.2
These tracks are from where the water enters the grotto, behind the massive shield stone formation. The mics were on the furthest right rock in the shadow, behind the large shield rock formation.
Inside the grotto, at low tide, and the cementious stone:
These, ^^, are the deep noise making, glorpy passages and channels that were making noise at the higher tide, when I was recording.
3) Inside the Grotto pt.3
4) Inside the Grotto pt.4
These tracks are literally water flowing deep under the cliff, in an extended channel that extends under the earth, and is the force that is carving the arch stone.
That channel starts at the bottom left corner of the image, in the image above ^, and diagonals towards the arch opening. You can see it takes dead aim at the arch.
These tracks have some amazing deep natural bass notes going on. They are giant air bubbles and water flowing and gurgling in an underground tidal tunnel, that I mic'd from an opening along its side.
Wet? You ought to feel like you're swimming in a grotto with these tracks.
5) Facing Open Ocean pt.1
6) Facing Open Ocean pt.2
After sampling the grotto, I went up onto the massive shield stone formation, in the foreground, and, focused the mics out over the ocean.
There are waves breaking along an abrupt reef face, and across the reef shelf.
7) Waterfall pt.1
8 ) Waterfall pt.2
This is the return flow for my goldfish pond that I built. I built the return flow intentionally to make a lot of gurgling noises, to provide the patio with some white noise to cover traffic, and other life noises.
I labeled the DAT as Moving Waters, many years ago. So, I'm sticking with it.
Moving Waters
Ambient Recordings by Mike French
TFH — A Journey to the Impact Zone
DPA4022 stereo pair XY-stereo 90º Coincident Stereo
Grace Lunatec V3
Sony PCM-M1 DAT
https://archive.org/details/MovingWaters
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