Interesting natural sounds

[Tell]

This is why I don't understand why people use recorded music/headphones when taking a nice ride or hike out in the woods.

Yeah outside I only use headphones to mask out people or cars, in the forest though I want to hear the silence!

 

[tmuikku]

Like a campfire only larger.

Hah, yeah I ment campfire, thanks any fire you can watch.

Translating rest of the post in English for Chrispy: to stay in topic I wanted to highlight campfire isn't natural as it is made by human, but it feels very natural for us humans. Today bulk of the population, especially in western countries, are so hooked up into their mobile phones and departed from nature in general that even a campfire is very rare experience although it has been a sign of home, food, warmth and security through generations, except the recent ones. I grew up in countryside before mobile revolution so campfire was a common thing, but since then there was long streak without one but past few years I've had it quite often and it's just such a nice experience I've come to appreciate quite a lot. Anyway, back to topic.

 

[Tell]

Hah, yeah I ment campfire, thanks any fire you can watch.

Translating rest of the post in English for Chrispy: to stay in topic I wanted to highlight campfire isn't natural as it is made by human, but it feels very natural for us humans. Today bulk of the population, especially in western countries, are so hooked up into their mobile phones and departed from nature in general that even a campfire is very rare experience although it has been a sign of home, food, warmth and security through generations, except the recent ones. I grew up in countryside before mobile revolution so campfire was a common thing, but since then there was long streak without one but past few years I've had it quite often and it's just such a nice experience I've come to appreciate quite a lot. Anyway, back to topic.

Fires ain't an unnatural phenomenon though, it's just that those we most odten experience is started by a human, so I'd say the crackling of a fire is very much on topic

I'm a firespinner btw, I set fire to the ends of a 140cm long staff, and when it's completely dark outside with no other sounds around me that sound of swooshing fire is really really nice!

 

[Multicore]

The bittern.

My dogs singing. Lucy joins in with emergency sirens. Zeno sings in his sleep, really loud, thankfully not very often but very soulful.

 

[DWPress]

Just had a fire in the pit last night. Owls, ducks, geese, herons and some coyotes scrapping in the distance with something while sitting there with the river sounds under it all inhaling s'mores. After kids went to bed the northern lights appeared.

I highly recommend it, better than any audio system I've ever heard and note that none of those kids has a phone in their hands.

 

[JustJones]

Interesting natural sounds that fascinate me are, thunder cracks, rolling thunder, rain, cicadas, wind, trees falling down naturally, insects.
Great reference sounds from nature.
How about you, what do you think?

Cicadas? The annual ones maybe. Have you ever been close when the 13 or 17 year brood emerged?

Cicadas are very loud indeed. Extension entomologist P.J. Liesch of the University of Wisconsin-Madison told CBS 58 in Milwaukee that a grove of trees with a bunch of singing and screeching cicadas could reach 70 to 80 decibels – a similar volume to a vacuum cleaner.

Come closer, and it could be more like 90 to 100 decibels, Liesch told the station.

 

[JohnnyAudio]

Cicadas? The annual ones maybe. Have you ever been close when the 13 or 17 year brood emerged?

Yes, i was hiking in at Alishan grassy mountain in Taiwan. The grass is high and blowing in the wind every which way and the sounds of the cicadas are swirling from everywhere like millions of sound sources. No sound system could ever do this. This experience was like a dream. Go there if you can.

 

[Moderate Dionysianism]

Listen to the Sick Beats of Rhubarb Growing in the Dark

Snap, crackle, produce.

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[Killingbeans]

Virgin snow and frosty leaves crunching under your feet.

I love it too when it's slightly wet snow.

If it's really dry, really cold snow, the sound feels a bit more like biting into aluminium foil to me. Not pleasant

 

[Doodski]

I love it too when it's slightly wet snow.

If it's really dry, really cold snow, the sound feels a bit more like biting into aluminium foil to me. Not pleasant

You mean when it gets firm and like Styrofoam and then walking on it makes squeak squeak sounds?

 

[Timcognito]

Well out here in our Mediterranean climate in California the sound rain on roof or hitting a pond is welcome one. I know you guys on the east and south east coasts don't want or need to hear it any more this summer. I am lucky to live a rural location very close to the Pacific Ocean where there is a shelf that is at sea level forcing the waves to strafe across it. On calm nights with the windows cracked open, the mild crashing boom followed by gurgling surge across the rocks is very good at calming one to sleep. In winter it is completely different when very large waves can sound like rail-yard where freight cars are being slammed together as waves break.

 

[Chrispy]

Hah, yeah I ment campfire, thanks any fire you can watch.

Translating rest of the post in English for Chrispy: to stay in topic I wanted to highlight campfire isn't natural as it is made by human, but it feels very natural for us humans. Today bulk of the population, especially in western countries, are so hooked up into their mobile phones and departed from nature in general that even a campfire is very rare experience although it has been a sign of home, food, warmth and security through generations, except the recent ones. I grew up in countryside before mobile revolution so campfire was a common thing, but since then there was long streak without one but past few years I've had it quite often and it's just such a nice experience I've come to appreciate quite a lot. Anyway, back to topic.

LOL, I deserved that. Right now don't need campfires, let alone bonfires, plus they're actually prohibited right now as we have several forest fires surrounding us (the Willamette Complex and Homestead Complex of fires). It's kind of like living in a campground where the campfire smoke is always blowing towards your tent no matter where you pitch it . It definitely twists ones appreciation Don't see too many people here with their heads buried in their phones either now that I think about it.

 

[Chrispy]

Yeah outside I only use headphones to mask out people or cars, in the forest though I want to hear the silence!

I tend to find there's plenty of sound in a forest, as sometimes your presence is why it got quiet.

 

[Killingbeans]

You mean when it gets firm and like Styrofoam and then walking on it makes squeak squeak sounds?

That too.

But I'm thinking when the crystals get really big and really stable and the temperature then drops like a rock. You get this super fluffy and flowy snow that squeaks ridiculously high-pitched when you walk on it. Usually happens at night.

 

[Doodski]

That too.

But I'm thinking when the crystals get really big and really stable and the temperature then drops like a rock. You get this super fluffy and flowy snow that squeaks ridiculously high-pitched when you walk on it. Usually happens at night.

Ahh. We call that champagne powder.

 

[restorer-john]

Just had a fire in the pit last night. Owls, ducks, geese, herons and some coyotes scrapping in the distance with something while sitting there with the river sounds under it all inhaling s'mores. After kids went to bed the northern lights appeared.

I highly recommend it, better than any audio system I've ever heard and note that none of those kids has a phone in their hands.

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Just beautiful.

I had a party of about 6 or 7 Kookaburras going off their collective tits today on my front roof gutter. So loud!

Right now it's pouring rain and the sound is glorious off our metal roof and in the gumtrees. Like you say, better than HiFi...

 

[JohnnyAudio]

Ice cracking on the lake during the spring melt.

 

[danadam]

not music, but amazing nightingale song

this season, nightingale nests only 10 meters from my recording studio recorded him these nights chain: mic pair AKG414 -> Drawmer 1969 -> EQ EAR825 -> Manley Vary mu

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[Tell]

Ice cracking on the lake during the spring melt.

Or thick ice doing weird pewpew sounds when freezing even more

 

[-Matt-]

Not exactly natural, but how about the sound of a heavy car door slammed in an underground car park?!