Field Works - Ultrasonic
(Temporary Residence Records)
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The artist behind this album recorded bat echolocation using ultrasonic microphones. He then collaborated with a variety of musicians to "sample" those recordings and create an ambient/neo-classical album.
I'm a wildife biologist that specializes in bat and avian field research, so when I heard about this album from a Temporary Residence email, I was immediately intrigued. I read more about it, and it turns out the field recordings were collected in the very same location where I completed my Masters degree fieldwork studying the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis). Small world. These Indiana bat summer maternity colonies have existed in central Indiana for decades, and these bats are known to live for 20 to 30 years or more. While the probability is very low, there's a chance that some of the individual recordings on this album, were the very same bats I recorded in 2012-2013. Ha ha. It's a long-shot.
Anyways, sorry to drag on. I just really loved the concept of the album and the Field Works series. And how close to home, how novel, this record is for my own personal life.
Music and nature. My sustenance.