sound works by Patrick Franke
While the focus in the early years of my work with sound was on anthropogenic noise and sound synthesis, my interest shifted towards scientific and artistic works with wildlife sound in the mid 2000s. Conversations with Yannick Dauby and the discovering Chris Watson’s release “Outside the Circle of Fire” (WATSON 2008) were a more than …
January 2020 Listen to the ice of a frozen channel that melts and breaks under the warm winter sun. PFR16175, 200102, cracking and echoing ice, Germany
January 2020 No doubt, fireworks are something exciting for sound enthusiasts. The impact, however to the natural world, pets and people with no interest in extremely loud detonations or certain traumas are devastating – just to talk about the acoustic aspect. In the past few years there have been many studies on the health effects …
October 2019 I went to Germany’s most famous Common Crane roost north of Berlin recently. My goal was to make sound recordings of a really large number of Common Cranes arriving at roost. In this case around 20.000 individuals. It is certainly arguable whether it is right, in times of continuous habitat loss, to bring …
September 2019 So, what do we hear here? Well, it’s actually just wind blowing into a tube with one open end. PFR15432, 190410, wind blowing into a tube, North Sea, offshore
September 2019 In 2015 I was in Egypt for a few weeks for a survey job. To be honest it was a rather unfortunate trip. The political situation was very difficult, the people seemed to be somehow nervous and anxious. Beside the actual work being able to move freely, e.g. for sound recordings, was only …
September 2019 Normally I do not deploy autonomous recording units, except for scientific monitoring. Why? For me, the best part of sound recording is listening during the recording process (actually, of course, a recording would not have to be done at all to do so). I was in a marsh area in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to do …