contact microphones

Wind Chimes is a collection of meticulously recorded wind chimes purposely recorded with a pair of high-end Barcus Berry contact microphones. By using this type of mic instead of traditional ones, the attack, sustain and decay of each tube struck by its clapper are experienced in ways unheard by the naked ear. Every tinkle and plink, every clang and rattle sound a bit more removed from its environment than normal. Harmonics can easily be heard alongside fundamental frequencies. Every recording is unique to its moment in time, each note as random as the wind that played it. These wind chimes are anything but showroom new. Some are weathered. Some are outwardly neglected. A few sound pretty, others not so much.… Read More

Look at and listen to sounds of the Beaver Marsh at Cuyahoga Valley National Park in northeast Ohio. For a different kind of recording, I used a pair of high-end contact microphones clipped to the boardwalk that spans the 70-acre marsh. You hear the 70-acre wetland from the wood’s perspective.… Read More

Field recording of the Rumble of the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge which spans the Ohio River.… Read More

Tinkling. Plinking. Clinking. Clanging. Rattling. Ah, the beautiful sounds of wind chimes blowing in a gentle breeze. Here are 16 of them, in all shapes and sizes. Some are old. Some are new. Some are borrowed. Sorry, none are blue. Each one is meticulously recorded and layered in a unique way that will have you thinking they are all hanging from your back porch, and you are in the middle of it all.… Read More

Mohican Through the Seasons is a four-part album series highlighting the natural soundscape of Mohican State Park in north-central Ohio and its vast surrounding forest during winter, spring, summer and fall.… Read More