Ambisonic Spaces

What is the language of nature? How can we tap into this dialect and translate what it’s communicating, revealing, and expressing? The practice of observing and listening to nature over time is a skill that Barack Ben-Amots has been doing at Flying Pig Farm since 2014. Flying Pig Farm is a community garden that’s 100% chemical free, focusing on food and nutritional education and practices permacul...

Meet Melissa Pons, she is an award winning sound designer, sound artist, and field recordist. Melissa seeks context by being connected to the space and knowing it’s history, culture, geography, how it’s perceived, knowing the context so much that you’re willing to have it change your understanding. Having this transformative approach, allows the space to tell its own story, rather than us write th...

Mount Ida, Turkey with Field Recordist Enis Çakar from Planet Earth and Vadi Sound.  In Northwestern Turkey, is a mountain full of rich, historical significance and ancient myth. Sitting at the very edge of the Mediterranean, this broad landscape from it’s bare windswept peaks, to the hot and dry deforested surroundings, hosts a number of lightly populated small villages dotted throughout the dens...

At 8600ft, Guffey is a small mountain town which had its beginnings in the late 1800’s with its booming population of 500 bringing cattle ranching and lumber operations supplementing Guffey’s mining activity. Fast forward over one hundred years to today, just a few spread out ranchers occupy this area, or "share" this area with other creatures. These are their stories. Discover more and please con...

In the Rocky Mountains, nestled in the Pikes Peak Region at 9000ft, are a series of reservoirs closed in by old, large pines, seasoned aspens and towering mountains. This is Catamount. These Catamount reservoirs are fed by a number of streams melted from winter’s freeze and bubbling up from natural springs provided by the sky scraping, 14,000 ft Pikes Peak, carving out a unique, high elevation eco...

Eduardo Patricio is a Sound Designer, specializing in spatial audio, and Lecturer at Bydgoszcz Music Acadamy. On this episode Eduardo tells his story of an interactive sound walk experience is to highlight the importance of being in the moment, a sort of joy that can be experienced by being in the moment, and to compare how the sonic world can change through human interaction. Eduardo brings an in...

A little oasis that has a series of waterfalls that cascade down a mountain from a little hidden gem called the “garden of eden” in the Pikes Peak Region of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.   It’s positioned in such a way that the golden hours of dawn and dusk just last a little bit longer, you are surrounded by green moss covering the giant boulders and rocks, and vegetation that is all tangled t...

The Garo Hills are the youngest part of the Himalayas. This close to untouched region of the world sparked interest in Sound Artists, Nikhil Nagaraj, Felix Deufel and their team to create an interactive 3D re-creation of the most remote parts of India, that one day, may not sound the same due to human interactions and sound pollution. Their project is called "If We Vanish" and aims to show why it...

The Garo Hills are the youngest part of the Himalayas. This close to untouched region of the world sparked interest in Sound Artists, Nikhil Nagaraj, Felix Deufel and their team to create an interactive 3D re-creation of the most remote parts of India, that one day, may not sound the same due to human interactions and sound pollution. Their project is called "If We Vanish" and aims to show why it...

The Garo Hills are the youngest part of the Himalayas. This close to untouched region of the world sparked interest in Sound Artists, Nikhil Nagaraj, Felix Deufel, and their team to create an interactive 3D re-creation of the most remote parts of India, that one day, may not sound the same due to human interactions and sound pollution. Their project is called "If We Vanish" and aims to show why it...

Recoding just after Dawn in Pike National Forest Colorado. The dense brush near a quiet creek is a perfect haven for spring birds. Recorded with Spatial Audio’s Spatial mic - 2nd Order Ambisonics Decoded to Binaural Thank you for supporting Sonic Conservation by listening to Ambisonic Spaces. Discover more and consider donating Twitter Instagram LinkedIn AmbisonicSpaces.org If you’re a sound desig...

This space in South Luangwa National Park, Eastern Zambia, was recorded by Audio Artist, Sound Designer, and Conservationist George Vlad. George has traveled all over the globe, and I am thrilled that George shared this space, and more importantly, how places like these are worth conserving as you’ll hear him talk about…while in Eastern Zambia with the beautiful natural backdrop of the savannah. ...

An early morning recording beside the Upper McCloud River in Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Siskiyou County, California. Recorded on International Dawn Chorus Day, 2022.  This recording, free from human interaction, was created by Audio Artist Kelly Rafuse with a Wildtronics Stereo Ambient Array Microphone to a Zoom F6.  Enjoy this recording and follow other recordings from Kelly on Instagram @...

A busy morning in the Rocky Mountains with birds, insects, elk, wild turkeys, and distant trains. Captured July 2021.  Sennheiser AMBEO VR MixPre 6 ii Encoded to 1st Order FuMa Thank you for supporting Sonic Conservation by listening to Ambisonic Spaces. Discover more and consider donating Twitter Instagram LinkedIn AmbisonicSpaces.org If you’re a sound designer, field recording enthusiast, or jus...

Nestled in the Pike National Forest tucked away in the Rocky Mountains, a series of ponds are full of the evening bustle. Thank you for supporting Sonic Conservation by listening to Ambisonic Spaces. Discover more and consider donating Twitter Instagram LinkedIn AmbisonicSpaces.org If you’re a sound designer, field recording enthusiast, or just want to support this podcast, check out subscribing t...

Listen to a small stream in "The Garden Of Eden", a hidden oasis nestled in the Rocky Mountains. Thank you for supporting Sonic Conservation by listening to Ambisonic Spaces. Discover more and consider donating Twitter Instagram LinkedIn AmbisonicSpaces.org If you’re a sound designer, field recording enthusiast, or just want to support this podcast, check out subscribing to the Patreon Page: Spati...

This recording is actually two ambisonic recordings put together. One ambisonic recording of Catamount Creek in 'The Garden Of Eden' and another of the general ambience of 'The Garden of Eden' near Pikes Peak, Colorado. Captured July 2021. Sennheiser AMBEO VR MixPre 6 ii Encoded to 1st Order FuMa Decoded to Binaural Thank you for supporting Sonic Conservation by listening to Ambisonic Spaces. Disc...

Captured July 2021.  Sennheiser AMBEO VR MixPre 6 ii Encoded to 1st Order FuMa Decoded to UHJ Stereo Twitter Instagram LinkedIn AmbisonicSpaces.org If you’re a sound designer, field recording enthusiast, or just want to support this podcast, check out subscribing to the Patreon Page, Ambisonic Spaces. There you will be able to not only support this podcast, but also gain access to listen to episod...

Imagine yourself in a sphere of sound, not just the linear sonic information out of the left or right speakers or headphones, but all around you…how we receive the world every day. We frequently receive these subtle nuances in multi directional frequencies that vibrate through space that help us determine how we perceive the world around us. Sound can ground us in being present, move us through ti...