Wanderwaves comes from combining the following words:
wander, waveforms, and aves (birds).
It began as a desire to record the under-appreciated and everyday soundscapes while birding and hiking in the Catskills in Upstate New York.
It’s part travelogue, part soundscape art, and part documentary.
How it Works
Recordings are made with a Zoom H1 Stereo Recorder. 32-bit float, X/Y Mics, up to 120 dB SPL, up to 96kHZ sample rate
Part 1. a destination is picked-- sometimes nature, sometimes an industrial zone, or near a farm, a public store or a parking lot. we walk, hike, paddle, or climb there with our portable field recorder. as we walk we record, and listeners hear both a selection of music and the changing aural environment.
Part 2. once we reach the destination, we set up the recorder for an unfiltered field recording -- wind through trees, machinery, traffic, footsteps, echos, radios, birds etc -- each episode ends with the geo coordinates of the final location.
