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Fellow recordists,
Great to read that you are all out and still recording! It's especially nice to see that Laurent and Leslie have stayed friends and are out recording on their travels. Did anyone make it out to see Scott Sherk's show in N.Y? It's also wonderful to think of Edward out recording elephants in Africa. I am hopeful that there will be a recording course in an international location to draw some of us back to reunite sometime in the near future.
I've been recording here in Northern California and some in N.W Nevada for the past year and a half and passionately working towards producing a commercial CD which has been allot of fun recording except for knowing that I will have to spend countless hours at the computer mixing it all down. That is the hard part for me. I have also donated recordings to a few musicians that are using the cuts on their Cd's to add ambiance. One particular CD is going to be childrens songs so the sounds of crickets, frogs and birds fits right in. In the mean time, I got a call from Greg Budney three weeks ago and he lined me up with a trip to the Amazonas region of Southern Venezuela (all expenses paid) recording Woodcreepers with Curtis Marantz for six weeks. It is through a grant funded by NSF ( National Science Foundation) and we will be exploring the remote headwater reaches of the Orinoco River and spending all six weeks on a boat sleeping in hammocks. It sounds very challenging but Greg shared that Curtis is the one of the most active scientists doing neotropical bird research in the world right now and it will be an opportunity to learn ALLOT. Curtis explained that we will be going out into the jungle in the dark each morning at 4:00am and that the birds are usually 30 meters up in the canopy. He said that there will be ample time to record whatever else I want during the remainder of the day and there are approximately 600 species that can be found in our general area. In short, I'm PSYCHED and busily preparing to leave here in two weeks.
Just like Monica, I am eager to see some changes in the white office and would like to see more focus on alternative energy resources, reversing global warming, universal healthcare, and less of a focus on global imperialism. Just hand me that ballot too!
Happy New Year to you all!
Ps: The above attachment is a little tidbit from this past spring out in the forest near my house. It's a Winter Wren and was recorded at 5:35 am, with a Telinga stereo mic with a Parbolic Dish, Nagra Ares bb+ recorder, approx 10 yds from the subject. Background species are Wrentit and Spotted Towhee. It took me two weeks to finally get the elusive little bugger !
Best wishes to everyone,
Kyle Keegan
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