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Fleeting Sound

Fleeting Sound is a premium collection of sound effect libraries based on the regions and elements of the natural world.

 

The name is a reference to both the transient nature of environmental sound – heard as it is only in that moment – and the relatively brief period of time we live in known as the Holocene, where life on earth has reached an incredible peak of diversity that we came to know and is now being rapidly depleted by human activities as we move into a new geological age: the Anthropocene.

 

The aim for Fleeting Sound is to produce accurate renderings of the sound of the natural world which feature very little anthropogenic noise. Where the recording is meant to reflect a strongly human-influenced location, or where a landscape features humans or it’s livestock, it may however feature human-originated sound.

 

An aspect unique to Fleeting Sound is the categorising of sound regions. Rather than following political state boundaries (which nature does not!) it records and categorises locations by ecoregion and libraries often borrow their names from the ecoregion and biome in which they are recorded.

 

Fleeting Sound is recorded by UK-based Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and BAFTA award-nominated sound editor/designer and recordist Nicholas Allan, who along with his team in Bristol has recorded the ambient sound and provided sound design and editing for countless hours of wildlife/natural history television documentaries and dramas for BBC, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Netflix and more, as well as many award-winning independent films.

  • This premium collection of sound effects was recorded over 3 years in the foothills and lowlands around the Southern Carpathian Mountains in Romania. This is the sound of the eastern and southeastern European countryside – meadows and hedgerows thrumming with the sound of insects and birds.

    Recorded in a spatially-open, exciting and realistic-sounding quad-surround NOS-based format*, these are ultra-low-noise recordings of cinematic quality. They are fully ‘rotatable’ for next-level sound editing options or alternative perspectives. Also available in stereo version.

    Key Features

    • 20 wildlife-rich atmospheres
    • detailed Soundminer and BWAV metadata including species lists
    • available in quad (4.0) or stereo (2.0)
    • ultra low-noise
    • fully rotatable surround format for alternate perspectives (4.0 version only)

    Featured Habitats

    Lowland rural meadows, scrub edges and hedgerows.

    Wildlife Vocalisations

    Some of the many birds to be heard include turtle dove, golden oriole, blackcap, buzzard, jay and great-spotted woodpecker. The birds have a range which extends across southeastern Europe.

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    Technical

    Sennheiser MKH8040 based 4.0 microphone setup recorded into Sonosax SX-R4+

    Recording Characteristics

    • Ultra-low-noise
    • Carefully mastered to remove any unwanted artefacts whilst preserving low-frequency energy
    • Spatially balanced to ensure a coherent and immersive image appropriate to the recording.
    • Continuous, unedited and uninterrupted, preserving the natural rhythms of the biophony.


    All sounds recorded by Nicholas Allan, a Jackson Hole and BAFTA-nominated sound designer who, along with his team, has created the natural soundtracks for countless natural history TV documentaries and feature films for National Geographic, BBC, Discovery, Animal Planet, Netflix and others.

    Special thanks to: Christoph Promberger, Andrew Wilson and Jolanta Brdej-Allan.

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    * tracks 19 and 20 are recorded in double mid/side

  • City Life Sound Effects Malta Play Track 32 sounds included, 81 mins total From: $60

    A collection of premium quality ambient recordings from the islands of Malta and Gozo.

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  • A premium collection of cinematic sound effects of wind and water recorded in the semi-desert habitats of the North Sahara.

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  • A collection of stereo-ambient and mono-bird recordings made in spring, at the edge of the Saharan Atlas Mountains in eastern Morocco, and reflecting the sound of the deserts and other arid habitats of North Africa and beyond into the Middle East.

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    *20% of the sale price of your purchase will go directly to Harmusch Estudio y Conservación de Fauna – a Spanish conservation research organisation and registered charity working with the Moroccan government to protect and restore the wildlife and habitats of the region

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