Mark Rushton - Under Treetops

Under Treetops - Mark Rushton
4 minutes and 40 seconds, 192kb-encoded MP3

"Under Treetops" is a free ambient/field recording track released on December 19, 2008. It features low pulses, fog, rain sweep, wind chimes, bird song, and air.

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Free MP3: Field Recording (Rochester Avenue)

I have a new Free MP3, a 3 minute and 50 second field recording of me driving down Rochester Avenue in Iowa City around 7pm on Thursday, October 9th.

Download here. 192kb encoded MP3 and just a little over 5 MB.

Katydid and Fireworks, a free field recording MP3

Mark Rushton - Katydid and Fireworks
(2:45), 192kb-encoded MP3, 4MB

A recording of katydids and crickets in my backyard, punctuated with the sounds of distant fireworks exploding 13 miles away in North Liberty for the RAGBRAI bicyclers who were spending the night there. I like how the katydids take a break during the booming and then resume several seconds after it stops.

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Mark Rushton - June 8, 2008 - Field Recording Of A Rain Storm

Mark Rushton - June 8, 2008 - Field Recording Of A Rain Storm
(14:00), 192kb-encoded MP3, 20MB

More storms coming through Iowa City tonight. We have flooding down by the University of Iowa and nearby Coralville Lake is about to flow over the spillway. This was recorded from my kitchen window using the Zoom H2 and edited on the ends.

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Field Recording Of A Thunderstorm

Mark Rushton - May 29, 2008 Field Recording (Thunderstorm)
(3:50), 192kb-encoded MP3, 5.4MB

A thunderstorm passed through Iowa City on Thursday, May 29, 2008. The recording ends right as the worst of the lightning and thunder happen overhead. I was recording the storm using the highest microphone gain using my Zoom H2 and those sounds were too over-modulated to use. What happens before it is quite lovely, though.

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Can I Have Your Attention Please? (a field recording)

Mark Rushton - Can I Have Your Attention Please?
(2:47), 192kb-encoded MP3, 4MB

This is a field recording made on May 23, 2008 at the elementary school near my house. The principal was getting the kids were getting ready for a school parade. It was raining slightly. Most of the kids had some kind of noisemaker in their mouth which made for a bizarre whistling sound. I'm walking away towards the end of the recording.

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Mark Rushton - Field Recording on April 20, 2008 (Frogs)

Mark Rushton - April 20, 2008 Field Recording
Recorded and edited by Mark Rushton
(5:00), 192kb-encoded MP3, 6MB

This was recorded in my backyard the night of Sunday, April 20, 2008.

Last year, after I moved, I had planned to make a series of field recordings from my back yard, which is next to a series of wooded areas and in-town farm land. I put out a couple of recordings as free MP3s, mostly of crickets and katydids. Even though I recorded every couple of weeks until October, some of the recordings weren't good. Later in the year, I got a Zoom H2 (which I love...), but after the first frost the sounds were over.

Here it is in 2008 and I plan to do recording on a bi-weekly basis. Each one will be edited down to 5 minutes.

We had a bad winter. One of the coldest in decades and the 3rd snowiest in 140 years of record-keeping. February had the most snowfall ever for that month. It was a long time melting, and now we've had week after week of heavy rains.

What do you end up with? I think that sounds like frogs. And note my neighbor's sump pump hose draining just after the beginning.

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The Ice Storm (a field recording)

A new 10 minute field recording called The Ice Storm, recorded off my back deck on December 11, 2007 during an ice storm in Iowa City, IA.

July 31, 2007 Buzz, A Free Field Recording

July 31, 2007 Buzz, a free field recording from my backyard.

Recorded and edited by Mark Rushton
(13:53), 128kb-encoded MP3, about 13MB

Every night is different, but all nights are loud in the summer. The katydids keep going with their multi-layered, out-of-phase rhythms. The crickets buzz, although less often and with less intensity as the week before. There is only a slight hint of road noise from the north. A nearby neighbor has the central air running, which you can hear slightly on the right side. This was recorded using my old Sony minidisc recorder and a pair of binaural microphones. I only edited for time, provided the two fades, and turned it into a 128kb-encoded MP3. File under: field recording

The Buzz, Part 2 - Free MP3

The Buzz, Part 2 - a free field recording MP3 from my backyard. Download or listen to it here.

The katydids are out in my neighborhood every night now (late July 2007), and since I have woods behind my house there's lots of them chattering away. Here's 6 minutes of the sound, along with numerous other buzzing and rhythmic insects. It's nature's orchestra. I like how the rhythms get off track and are imperfect, but are constantly interesting. In the background, because of a northerly wind, is ambient noise from Interstate 80. This was recorded using my old Sony minidisc recorder and a pair of binaural microphones. I only edited for time, provided the two fades, and turned it into a 128kb-encoded MP3. File under: field recording