This download section contains nature's music, just the sounds from special places - rainforests, beaches, river environments ..
As well as 'nature's music', there are also the CD tracks and the New tracks sections - all with full listening and downloading facilities ..
Nature's music; recordings of the special sounds from special Australian places
These sound environments are unique and won’t be heard anywhere else
They are like musical compositions, containing ‘instruments’, harmonies, calls and responses, acoustics, timings, reverberations and echoes, timbre, dynamics .. see stories/’sounds becoming music’ for more
Australia is a country rich in such landscape soundscapes; these are (part of) our age old heritage and cultural ‘artifacts’ on show. Enjoy them !
Martin, reviewer ' .. I was impressed by the remarkable recording quality of the environment sounds, it wasn't just environment sound used in the background, the composer shaped it and used it as a musical element as well as background atmospherics .. very subtle .. '
‘Promsea' - 3169; 6:50 long (9.5MB) - Download 'The prom' - southern Australian cool, long beach, white sand; morning; small creek behind beach; isolated and (people) deserted, smallish waves break
'Fogg dam' - 8213; 6:04 long (8.4MB) - Download Morning at 'Fogg dam' - located between Darwin and Kakadu in Australia's Northern Territory; the nature world has re-claimed an abandoned dam; pristine morning
'Barmah' - 2717; 7:17 long (10.1MB) - Download The 'Barmah' river red-gum forest is a vibrant environment situated on the murray/tongala river in eastern Australia .. hear parrots, ravens, frogs and crickets shriek, swirl, clack and honk - plus a few drops of rain from a passing storm
Note: As you download a track, a 'quicktime' (on a mac) or similar player will appear - you will hear the track as it downloads On completion you need to save the piece; go to 'file' and 'save page as' to your desktop, or where-ever else you store music files
We'd like feedback on this new 'download' section, both from the content and the download technology (which I realize is a bit shaky!) aspects There are many more sounds and pieces here - waiting loading; if you like particular categories more than others, please tell me ..