Last week I visited San Francisco for a company engineering meet up. I brought along a small recording kit, and while I didn't collect as much sound as I hoped, I did manage to make it to The Wave Organ.The first recording—captured with contact

Summer Streets on Park Ave

Aug 19th, 2023 9m 27s

For a few Saturdays each year, the NYC DOT shuts down car traffic on several streets across the five boroughs. It's called Summer Streets, and from around midnight until around 2pm you'll find only pedestrians and bikes on these stretches of ro

Montauk

Aug 1st, 2023 21m 50s

We spent a few days in Montauk at the end of July. This was Violet's first beach trip so I tried to capture as much as I could. These are some of the highlights.

Montauk

Aug 1st, 2023 21m 50s

We spent a few days in Montauk at the end of July. This was Violet's first beach trip so I tried to capture as much as I could. These are some of the highlights.

Morning Cab to the NICU

Jul 9th, 2023 6m 30s

A lot has happened in the last year, and I haven't been able—or necessarily had the drive—to record and publish. Our daughter was born in July 2022, and spent the first month and a half of her life in the NICU. Each morning, we'd get up, pack a

E 87th and 5th

Jul 21st, 2022 22m 7s

Took a walk and ate lunch on a park bench near E 87th and 5th (near the Guggenheim museum). After I finished my sandwich I hung out for a while and recorded some of the day. This episode is two separate recordings captured with a MixPre 6 II an

Palm Beach

Jun 8th, 2022 22m 9s

My wife and I traveled to Palm Beach for a final vacation before our daughter arrives in August. Captured an evening storm and some early morning chatter of frogs, crickets and a boisterous Northern Cardinal near the beach.

Swan Lake

Feb 24th, 2022 4m 19s

I visited my parents in Sumter, SC in January. Apparently, this small town is home to the only public park in the United States to feature all swan species. While I was there I managed to capture quite a few of them including:- Black Swan- Trum

Enter Autumn

Oct 29th, 2021 10m 54s

Welcome back. It's been a while. Since we last saw each other I bought a new recorder: a Sound Devices MixPre 6 II. It's a joy to use. Some of the sounds recorded in this episode were captured with this new recorder and some with my old Zoom H5

Resurfacing

Apr 19th, 2021 9m 26s

Back to some semblance of reality.

Catskill Mountains

Mar 29th, 2021 10m 27s

Sounds from our week-long vacation in upstate New York.

Thoughts of NYC

Mar 18th, 2021 10m 16s

Recordings from around NYC before and during the pandemic.

Rain Over Valdese

Mar 5th, 2021 7m 54s

This is one of the first recordings I made with the Zoom H5. We spent some time visiting NC during the summer of 2019. It had been quite a while since we'd been out of the NYC, and the quiet pattering of rain sounded amazing.

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