Big Ben and Barrel Organs in the Streets

From my recent trip to Mexico I brought some sound snippets of twisted european heritage: the Torre Latinoamericana, the landmark tower in the city center Mexico DF, plays a cheap digital version of London’s Big Ben every hour. And notorious in the streets of DF and other Mexican cities are the out-of-tune barrel organs that [...]

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What Jesus heard when Walking on Water

I made this recording at Sea of Galilee very close to the spot where Jesus was supposed to walk on water. I guess this must be what he heard at that excursion. By the way: scientific study has suggested that rare atmospheric and water conditions could have caused ice to form on the lake. The [...]

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Young Monks in Sri Lanka

Another entry to the acoustic flotsam series… I recorded those young monks in Sri Lanka around 1996. The boys were learning some buddhist text I guess, the teacher sat in front of them and the prayer was going on for quite some time.

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Ice Sizzle

Glacial ice consists of snow that has been extremely compressed and compacted. In the case of the inland ice in Greenland, this process may stretch over thousands or even millions of years before the ice is pushed into the sea by a glacier. As the layers of snow pile up, tiny bubbles of air are [...]

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Tikal at Dawn

In March I travelled Mexico and Guatemala. The most spectacular Maya-site is probably Tikal in the Guatemalan jungle. I had the opportunity to stay at gran plaza in the center of the ruins about 45 min. before gates open at dawn. My guided group rushed to the temple with the best sight over the forest [...]

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Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets

I made this sound recording of a frozen lake in the winter of 2005/06 in the area around Berlin. Frozen lakes are known to give off most noise during major fluctuations in temperature: the ice expands or contracts, and the resulting tension in the ice causes cracks to appear. Due to the changes in temperature, the hours of [...]

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Recording Fire at Schönefeld

Last year I did several recordings of fire for my radio composition fire pattern (well, indeed…), and as one can see, this recording let my windshield melt away… This happened at airport Schönefeld close to Berlin (it will be the international airport for Berlin in a few years), where they run a training ground for [...]

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Cano Negro Monkeys

One of my best experiences while doing field recording. I catched this take in Costa Rica on a canoe ride down the cano negro, a mangrove swamp with lots of water ways and channels. On this bit a howler monkey started growling on the left hand side of the water, while spider monkeys climbed through [...]

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Israel Soundscape

In may 2007 I travelled to Israel and the West-Bank on a political education programme. During the trip I did a lot of sound recordings in the streets of Jerusalem, Ramalah and Tel Aviv. Here is a collage of some of those sound bits, that I finished very quickly in about three hours, that is [...]

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