This track is from my recording of a concert called "Unheard Voices 2" in the Assembly Hall at Walthamstow Town Hall, London - a well-known recording venue. Vocal and percussion groups from a number of local schools were arranged around the walls of the hall, and there were a handful of professional instrumentalists in front of the microphone, with the director (playing the keyboard and leading the singing) behind, and the audience - entirely families, of course! - behind him. My brief was to produce a stereo recording for use the next day during an associated art exhibition, so I simply made a UHJ encoding of the surround recording - which they were delighted with; but you get the full surround version.

This track is from my recording of a concert called "Unheard Voices 2" in the Assembly Hall at Walthamstow Town Hall, London - a well-known recording venue. Vocal and percussion groups from a number of local schools were arranged around the walls of the hall, and there were a handful of professional instrumentalists in front of the microphone, with the director (playing the keyboard and leading the singing) behind, and the audience - entirely families, of course! - behind him. My brief was to produce a stereo recording for use the next day during an associated art exhibition, so I simply made a UHJ encoding of the surround recording - which they were delighted with; but you get the full surround version.

A long edit (35 min) of several recordings I made on different days at our yearly November fun fair. Crowd atmosphere, merry-go-rounds, bumper cars, slot machines, boom-boom all around… A blend of my two DYIed recording systems, CAD GXL1200 mic/Maya 44 USB card/laptop and TSB165A mic/modded Zoom H2 recorder.

A medley of several recordings I made early in the morning on the very last day of the 2009 Hot-Air Balloon European Championship which took place in Brissac, near Angers, France. Lying on the ground, the balloons first have to be inflated with large noisy fans before the gas burners can get into action. Feverish activity around the dozens of them that lifted off that morning for their last flights there. Surely best enjoyed on with-height setups (from 9:30 on there's one passing right above), this track will prove "a bit" noisy at times, but if your speakers love pink noise, this is the track they'll need !!! ----(DIY TSB165A "soundfield" mic / DIY preamp / Modded Zoom H2 recorder)

In the middle of a herd of cows in the French Pyrenean mountains last summer... (DIY "soundfield" mic (TSB165 caps) / DIY preamp / Modded Zoom H2 recorder)