Sound, noise and music for Audiomo 2025, running during June.

• 20250601: A few minutes of AudioMoth capture from our holiday lodge near Saltburn, North Yorkshire. There are resident peacocks, ducks and gulls which are all represented here. The peacocks were noisy but not at times that might be expected,
• 20250602: There is a cattle grid on the moorside edge of my village , and this is a minute of Saturday afternoon traffic crossing it.
• 20250603: A small part of the audio section of the You:Matter exhibition at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford (it will always be the Media Museum to me).
• 20250604: Cliffe Castle, our Local Museum of Stuff in Keighley, has, among other things, a lithophone, which has been in storage since 1906, but is now on display for people to play. This is me and my daughter playing it.
• 20250605: A very shouty (and windblown) goose on the Leeds-Liverpool canal in Shipley in March. I think it was that time of the year.
• 20250606: The AudioMoth is in the greenhouse, recording the sounds of the day rather than the sunrise and sunset, and today it caught one of the several deluges we've had (as well as the neighbour who smokes and coughs outside regularly).
• 20250607: A minute of the sound of the multi-storey car park at Leeds Ikea, including the sound of the trolley truck. which I'm wondering if I could get a convolution out of. Very industrial/retail.
• 20250608: A long overdue trip to Leeds City Museum yesterday. This is the sound of the Life On Earth room, and several excited youngsters - the tinies especially like it as there is lots of interactivity, trails to follow and huge animals behind glass.
• 20250610: One of my reasons for getting the AudioMoth was to try and capture a starling that would turn up most mornings and run through its repertoire of sounds, including a car alarm and a very convincing herring gull. That one doesn't seem to be around at the moment, so I found this one, which I think is a juvenile, having an early morning practise and still showing a fine range. Includes a free pigeon at the beginning.
• 20250611: Another rainstorm from the greenhouse from last week with a very excited blackbird. I'm really pleased with how the Audiomoth captures sound like this.
• 20250613: I switched the AudioMoth to recording daytime, and this week some neighbours have had roofers in, so it's been pretty noisy. This is a clip of them doing something the other day, either bashing tiles off with a jackhammer or attaching with a big stapler. Might be sampleable.
• 20250614: The Street Choirs Festival (https://streetchoirsfestival.co.uk) is taking place in Bradford city centre this weekend, and choirs were singing at locations around the city centre today including a mass sing in City Park. It was a beautiful day and the singing was stirring. I was recording on my phone so the sound isn't great but this is one sample (I recorded a few but they're noisier, including an excellent shape note song that was ruined by a police car on blues and twos).
• 20250615: I remembered to put the SD card back in the AudioMoth yesterday and recorded the sound of a suburban West Yorkshire night. This little clip captured the WY police helicopter flying nearby and some distant fireworks, neither of which are uncommon here, although the Eid celebrations are taking place over this weekend.
• 20250616: I put the AudioMoth by a red verbena bush, so here's the sound of bees enjoying it, plus assorted birds.
• 20250619: I've upgraded my Akai Force to the 3.5 beta to try out the new plugins as they're on sale again. There are some things that still need polishing, but the new Ether and Sprite reverb/delay things are interesting. This is a quick demo of them working separately and together with a couple of ambient presets. Interesting stuff, probably easy to overuse but worth it for £49 for the pair at the moment (Windows/Mac/MPC only or course).
• 20250621: The three minutes across the summer solstice (3:41 BST) as celebrated by our starling that does the herring gull impersonation. We face eastish but the sun is rises behind a hill.
• 20250622: My daughter wanted to go to HMV to buy a CD today, so the youth aren't beyond hope, and here's a minute or so of atmosphere from Bradford's Broadway Centre.
• 20250623: I thought I'd let you hear what often wakes me up in the morning. The magpies are a summer arrival, but the early flight out of Leeds Bradford Airport is every weekday at just before 6am, and it was a windy and rainy one this morning.
• 20250624: Something different today: I came across a trove of flexidiscs from the 80s that originally came with the Dutch magazine Vinyl. I have one of these as a Cabaret Voltaire completist, and it was great to find this collection. It's a snapshot of largely unreleased post-punk from Europe and the US captured in plastic that's slightly thicker than the magazine it came with. I'm going to put them up on Mixcloud, but as a sample, here's a track from the edition that featured Californian percussionist Z'ev.
• 20250625: Thanks to @alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com I've found that Soundtoys runs with iLok spit under Linux, so I spent a few minutes putting drums through Effects Rack and recording it off my monitors with my field recorder. Crunchy.
• 20250627: An interesting bit of shortwave broadcast from the Utwente SDR (http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901). It's at 7000 Khz on USB and is a loop with an English female synth voice and an Italian male voice that sounds less synthetic that says "Extremely danger. Self-amplified toxin salready in use. Global health at risk. Self-amplified toxins infecting human to human. Do not use amplified toxins", It's probably anti-vax propaganda but it's also an increasingly rare use of shortwave similar to numbers stations.
• 20250630: I put the Audiomoth out overnight again and it gave me a mystery sound. This was captured at about 11:30 last night. The Moth was hanging from a bird feeder and near our neighbours' gardens. One of our neighbours has an old Harley Davidson and I think he's got a spare starter for it.