Reverie' song for piano and voice words by Albert G. Dawes; music by Alexander Rea Marked 'Entered at Stationers Hall' (historic Australian censor & patent office)
Autore: Words by Albert G. Dawes; music by Alexander Rea (1831? – 1909)
Australian magpie (western) 'gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis', family group carolling warbling in kings park perth western australia. Magpies call in family groups to locate each other, acert dominance and too defend their territory. (recorded august 2016, trimmed to 30s).
Ambient sound at a lebanese restaurant in sydney. All voices are indistinguishable but there is some australian accent to the sounds. Good as background ambient audio in restaurant.
A stereo recording of a weekday afternoon at melbourne general cemetery (victoria, australia), in the suburb of carlton north or princes hill. There are some birds, a plane flying overhead. It was recorded using a sony pcm-d50's built-in stereo microphones and has had light noise reduction applied (de-wind, rx8). This recording was taken in august 2021 on unceded wurundjeri land, which belongs to the woi wurrung people of the eastern kulin nations. I acknowledge their sovereignty and pay my respects to their elders and all first nations people.
An early morning (6am) in a suburban brisbane garden. Distant traffic noise coupled with bird calls (native to east coast australia). A plane passes overhead at 7. 26. Recorded on a realistic pzm and eq'd with logic and ozone 4.
Two rainbow lorikeet parrots stand-off over black sunflower seeds, each with an interesting soft chirp before one flies over and shoos the other. Neutral bay, sydney, new south wales, australia, 19/04/2017, 14:59.
Ambient recordings from woodville wetlands, at woodville, south australia. Ducks, pidgeons, seagulls, magpies, noisy miners and other birds can be heard. Drill and traffic noise in the background. Recorded with boya by-mm1 in a redmi note 5 phone using hi-res audio recorder app.
An imitation of an australian police siren using synthesizer and a big outdoor-style reverb. The siren consists of two oscillators, one of them loops at 4bars at 115bpm. The other is approx 14 times faster. They both move in same approximate freq range from approx f#5 up to g#6, about an octave.
At least 2 or 3 local species of native frogs in my neighbours pond. Recorded on a sony pd170 camcorder using a pair of sennheiser mkh-416 shotgun condenser microphones in a crossed stereo configuration. About 6 mtrs from the pond. Time was 10:15pm, december 2007 (keep an ear out for the old ford truck passing).
Sounds of summer. The parrots raid the 'umbrella" tree outside my house. Their cacophony is distracting and exciting. Someone, a few houses over, is mowing their lawn, a fortnightly necessity during the tropical wet, providing another iconic sound to the urban summer.
Recorded on a sony mp3 recorder in the north of adelaide, australia. The rain is easing and the thunder is moving away, the birds you can hear are galahs, sulfur crested cockatoos and rainbow lorikeets.
