This recording was taken on one of the walking paths on Vogelinsel (Bird Island) at the Altmühlsee (Lake) in Germany, which is a nature reserve. The microphone was mounted on a stand. On both sides of the path is water, behind there is a small pond and in front of the mic-direction a big lake. All around this, there are other small islands. The lake was frozen the day of recording so you can hear cracking and squeaking sounds from the ice throughout. Also, the frozen surface reflected the sounds of the environment leading to a more harsh and brittle landscape. Compared to the previous recording in Jan. 2018 there are far less bird sounds. At the end of the recording you can hear a beaver gnawing on a tree. Those sounds are mixed up with far away traffic sounds from the streets and the village nearby. Unfortunately due to technicall issues, there is a loud crackling and popping noise recorded to channel 4 for the first hour of recording.

This recording contains a plethora of bird calls which are consistent throughout most of the recording. The other sonic events of this recording include sounds of motor vehicles as they pass through the scene, a few instances of insects buzzing by the microphone, and winds occasionally blowing around twigs and dried shrubbery.

This recording contains a wind sound scape with plenty of wildlife activity. Sporadically throughout, new birds chime in to the recording and gives their unique calls for a few minutes at a time. Needless to say the wind overpowers most of the bird calls as most of the birds are usually off in to the distance. There a couple of instances in where wildlife movement becomes audible. This events are quite brief however, but they depict the dry dessert landscape.

This recording was done at 7:57 AM on March 16, 2014. The recording features aircraft and birds. The aircraft is not marked in time because it is consistent throughout the entire track. It turns into a dull noise that blankets the recording. There are also birds chirping for a majority of the recording, though they may be faint against wind or aircraft.

This recording has consistent wind, bugs, and birds, but has a lot of unique bird calls throughout the entire piece.

This recording has a significantly more events that the previous recording. The high pitched chirping, previously noted, is much more present in a few events in this file. There are also a couple instances of distant bird calls and some quite interesting movement sounds from rodents on the floor of the biosphere. The movements and animal calls are still very quiet and require a few extra dB before they become decently audible with headphones.

This file only contains a couple, very subtle events. Very far off in the distance around the 12:24 mark you can hear a truck or some sort of automobile driving by. Then at around the 13:53 mark there is a very small chirping sound from an animal or a bird of some sort. The sound is hardly noticeable unless the gain is cranked an extra 6db. The same goes for the last event that happens around the 17:24 mark. There are some birds, perhaps just one bird, calling very, very far in the distance.

This file is mostly another wind soundscape sample. There are plenty of instances when the breeze is a little bit stronger and pieces of equipment become audible. Perhaps the most exciting event is when for a very brief second, at the 2:30 mark, a fly buzzes across the microphones from right to left.

There are limited sonic events in this recording. The gate squeaks together at the 2:27 mark. After this, rest of the recording’s sounds consist of footsteps, gravel crunching on the ground and conversation.

This file contains short instances when a metal gate clanks together, or squeaks just a little bit. At two points it sounds like an airplane is passing by very, very far away; it is hard to differentiate the sound of the planes with large gusts of wind.

This recording contains quite a few instances of metal, close by the microphone, clanks together or squeaks, creating a very eerie environment as the wind continues to blow in the distance. A description of the setting is given at the beginning of the recording; it is 8:30PM on the 3rd day of the Listen(n) Project Field Trip on March 11th. The gates to Dripping Spring Road have been locked so the team could not go up the road to record. There are freeways on both sides of the microphone so one can hear rumble from cars everywhere. Towards the end of the recording there are a number of vehicles that become audible and at one instance a car drives up very close to the site of recording, makes a three point turn and turns back down the road.

This recording contains consist wind soundscape. There are instances of insects chirping as well as a large section of bird calls. Unfortunately there are no coyotes to be heard.