[HN Gopher] Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World
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       Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World
        
       Author : alentodorov
       Score  : 51 points
       Date   : 2026-03-03 23:07 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | yhjc2692 wrote:
       | Woah this is so cool - awesome job!!
        
       | celpgoescheeew wrote:
       | nice idea, but almost all sound clips are rain.
        
       | RagnarD wrote:
       | Curious why the large majority of the clips are about water. If
       | that's spontaneous, maybe it's interesting psychologically.
        
         | alentodorov wrote:
         | there's just more of them. the freesound api-based parser
         | searches for tags related to nature*
        
         | a1o wrote:
         | If you walk very early in the morning looking for something to
         | capture while everyone is asleep, chances are the water bodies
         | (ocean, river, lake, ..) are somewhere you know that you can
         | plan to go to, and also they are reliably in the same place -
         | so if say you forgot and took dead batteries, your cable failed
         | or you got the wrong mic, you can try again on the next day.
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         | Capturing other things may be harder - a bird may not be there,
         | the wind may change from day to day and so on. Water is usually
         | satisfying to hear and a good subject to experiment and explore
         | when you are beginning in field recording.
        
       | tsylba wrote:
       | It's funny and beautiful because I recognized the sounds from my
       | country but less so those from other places, which obviously
       | might be a bias due to me seeing where the pointer is at any
       | moment but can also simply be explained as different geography
       | and biomes would produce different sounds. Even a river will be
       | mold differently and have a peculiar acoustic, which I never
       | really think about until now and find fascinating.
        
       | bvan wrote:
       | Around the world in soundscapes.. great idea.
        
       | 1e1a wrote:
       | This is awesome! It would be great if there were more sound clips
       | -- maybe someone could make an app that lets anyone capture and
       | upload GPS-tagged recordings. Moderation could be an issue
       | though.
        
         | alentodorov wrote:
         | freesound.org is the perfect place to upload these. i'm using
         | their api to scan new sounds that are geotagged and put them on
         | the map
        
       | pierrec wrote:
       | If what you want is the sounds of nature around the world, I
       | can't recommend Gordon Hampton's work enough!
        
         | alentodorov wrote:
         | noted
        
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