I’ve been in Madagascar’s capital for a few days, preparing for my upcoming expedition and exploring the city on foot with my cameras and recorders.
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What does an active volcano sound like?
Boiling lava, gases escaping, mini earthquakes and lava bombs create a surreal soundscape inside the volcanic caldera at Erta Ale in Northern Ethiopia.
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2020 sound recording expedition to Kenya
I keep looking over my shoulder as I’m setting up my rig in a dead Acacia tree. The last thing I want to see now is a lion, a buffalo or a hippo. Technically I’m not allowed to exit the vehicle in Tsavo National Park, and for good reason. The density of big wildlife here is impressive.
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2020 sound recording expedition to Namibia
… as I approach the tree, I hear an aggressive hiss that instantly transports me back to the present moment. A Horned adder is viciously squirming at the base of the Camel thorn tree. How did I get here? Read on to find out.
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Sound recording in the Amazon rainforest - expedition report
Sweat bees, spiders, snakes, heat, humidity. These are not the things I travelled halfway around the world for, but nonetheless encountered on my trip to Eastern Peru earlier this year. I also found exquisite soundscapes, beautiful wildlife and sadly logging and cattle ranching. Read on to find out more about my adventures in the Amazon rainforest.
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Elephants at Langoue Bai
Sound recording expedition to the Congo rainforest
It’s November 2018 and I’m in Libreville, Gabon’s capital, joined by my good friend and fellow sound recordist Stijn Demeulenaere. Over the following month we will travel over two thousand miles, hike in the rainforest, be charged at by gorillas, swarmed on by bees and other insects, cross rivers on logs and most importantly, we will record so much natural soundscapes that it will take us months or years to go through it all.
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Early morning in Transylvania
Field recording expedition to Transylvania - 2019
I’m back from the 2019 Transylvania field recording expedition. The 10 days in the Romanian wilderness passed incredibly fast in excellent company. Field recording, hiking, bear tracking, bear avoiding were on every day’s menu along with rain, frost, sunshine and an incredible amount of wildlife.
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After last year's trip to Senegal I think it's time I did a rainforest trip. I still want to go to Africa, so the Congo river basin looks like the best place to do it. The Congo rainforest is the second largest in the world after the Amazon rainforest and is home to a staggering numbers of species. Figures like 400 mammal species, over 1000 bird species show just how diverse this remote part of the world is.
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