Playing with the switches on my nagra reel-to-reel - sort of a ryoji ikeda kind of thing popped out - i love surface noise, tape compression. . The whole media in fact!.
Recorded with an old (mini) nagra 1,600 meters underground. This is the sound of "roof support" moving, cracking coal,hissing ventilation, water dripping - and some miners taking in the background.
1k generated sine wave, 120ms long. Typical nagra beep that you find between takes on a blooper reel. They used to place a couple of these between takes recorded to analog tape in order to differentiate between multiple takes when fast forwarding.
A close up, quite agressive sound of a sluice flowing at maximum. Recorded at the canal du midi, moissac, france, with a nagra lb and 2 beyerdynamic mc930 (ortf). Feel free to use it the way you want !.
Romania meadow, maramuresh at summer 2016. Many grasshoppers, faraway barking dog, insects, wind, quiet bird. Recorded with schoeps ab ortfrecorder on nagra aeres bb48khz, 16 bits.
Loire estuary in autumn, paimboeuf, france 2012. Lapping of the little waves of the loire river and a plane. Recorded with schoeps ab ortfrecorded on nagra aeres bb48khz, 16 bits.
Knocking tree times on a metalic door, close up, several takes. Note that a small electric rumble should be removed. France, 2018. Recorded with schoeps ab ortfrecorded on nagra ares bbwave stereo, 48khz, 24bits.
Harbour ambience donges, france 2012. Large recordingmanutention and rumbling. Big truck manoeuvre. Distcreet bird. Emergence of an electroaccoustic french voice. Recorder with schoeps ab ortfrecorded on nagra aeres bb548 khz, 16 bits.
Two neumann km76 set to omni, protected by a dead cat. Placed in a garden under a tree one sunny and slightly windy saturday afternoon. Recorded to nagra lb.