{"id":1716,"date":"2010-08-05T16:55:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T23:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2010-08-05T17:41:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T00:41:05","slug":"ibises-and-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/05\/ibises-and-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibises and Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Somewhere in the murk there's quite a few noisy critters...<\/p><\/div>\n

I originally considered this clip an outtake from the\u00c2\u00a0Nature Sounds Society<\/a> Field Workshop<\/a> this summer (which has been previously<\/a> covered<\/a> in older<\/a> posts<\/a>). I had never seen white-faced ibises<\/a> before, and their ducklike honking and loud wing flaps were mixed in with local cows that were just waking up. It was about 7am.<\/p>\n

But in listening to it again, I came to love the moment that was captured: Dense fog all around, the sun kissing vernal pools and long-grass marshland in the middle of the Sierra Nevada, and all the animals calling out to each other, re-establishing territory and familial bonds. I came to rather like the sound of the cows mixed in with the ibises, the swallows, and the blackbirds.<\/p>\n

Field recordings don’t always have to be pristine to be interesting. Sometimes you must bend your mind to the material.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, I’ll share it here today. Hang out until the very last bit, where an ibis takes off and flies overhead – great clarity in the call and the wing flaps.<\/p>\n

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\n[Sennheiser MKH 50 and MKH 30 recorded as mid-side pair into Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I originally considered this clip an outtake from the\u00c2\u00a0Nature Sounds Society Field Workshop this summer (which has been previously covered in older posts). I had never seen white-faced ibises before, and their ducklike honking and loud wing flaps were mixed in with local cows that were just waking up. It was about 7am. But in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,134],"tags":[127,128,9,10,324,77,321,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}