my AI in the flowerpot has heard Cranes flying over ..

Yes, I've been hearing them overhead in Berlin in the last 4 days too. Presumably these are the cranes that still migrate (many now overwinter in the regions around Berlin) returning from France or Spain. Very early - we're not half way through February yet.

Dear Radio Earth community...Katrin and I have just started a stream from a small castle park in Linz. The microphone is placed in a hollow in the park. We can only hear the evening traffic indirectly. There is no line of sight to the traffic. A small road runs through the park to the castle. And to the west, south and north, the park is surrounded by traffic, all in the direct sound shadow of buildings. We usually only hear the drone of the infrastructure systems and the respective animal sounds of the park depending on the time of day.
A tram line passes to the west. And a church is about 400 m away.
The visual appearance of the place is a beautiful green space. The basic sound is this wet monochrome city drone, which can only be heard if you listen carefully.

Nice buzz with some deep rumbles inside.

Nice video Andrius ... and stream, Sam ...

Tiny raindrops

a bit before I could hear a male Tawny owl calling

maybe of interest in this context: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-quiet-is-precious-in-our-distracted-world-come-on-repeal-the-noise/

thats the surrounding

I find it interesting, here in my office/studio, to have one of the remote recorder streams playing as I work on the computer, then, occasionally I'll turn it off, to hear the 'silence' (local sound floor) in juxtaposition ... it's an interesting change in sound pressure on my ears (as I'm remote/rural where the sound floor is ... well, I routinely hear the blood pumping in my ears as the basic floor ...

super nice overtones

can't subtract the automobile madness from the soundscape, which prevents me to hear "super nice" overtones, unfortunately.. please help

sorry I should have pointed it out that this is feature when the churchbells ring..it was just very present at 7:pm

Uhuu

Tawny owl (Waldkauz)

He sounds lonely, but i guess that‘s what i hear into it…

female responding

Wow

listening for 2 hours now, can't find beauty in it. the greyness is boring, redundant, and powerful. It's violent, distracting, it's everywhere and it won't go away soon, it's us..

that is all correct,..maybe you can overcome the disgusting feeling and hear what it can tell about the circumstances. action and design.."beauty" is for sure provocative

hm. I think my, well, feelings come from what I hear, and know about how this soundscape and circumstances constitute. what kind of agency and energy is at work here. I don't know details of the place, but from listening and experience I have an understanding at least of distances, density of infrastructure, activity pattern. What the soundscape tells me, creates these rather depressive feelings.. So what exactly should I overcome? ;)

I’m curious also

I think their presence tells that it's acceptable, otherwise they wouldn't be there. Or these are the tougher ones, and all others have left. evolution at work..

I for my part had to stop listening. My ears started ringing…

somebody or something is creeping around there in the bushes!

for comparision, here's another mid-size town's live background, from Brno, Luzanky park. Brno has 100k more inhabitants than Linz http://locus.creacast.com:9001/brno_luzanky.mp3
Of course it sounds different, the Brno mic sits on the rooftop, and Sam's mic sits in a hole on the ground. Shades of grey...

I've been a little committed for a while now, into slowing down traffic in my quarter here in Berlin. The (green..) district has established a so called "Kiezblock", which actually is some bollards and new one-way streets, in order to prevent transit traffic through smaller streets. It really works for residents, but has sparked quite some reactions and property damage by hard core car drivers, who feel their rights are restricted. Some of the bollards have already been torn out or damaged several times ;) This will not stop voluntarily.

I almost completely lost my interest in +/- urban soundscapes, when it's simply and massively dominated by car traffic. No more artificial and artistic twists and tricks will help me here, unfortunately..

I described the mic location badly, the microphone sits in a park bay like in a big bowl..about 1,2 meter above ground in a leafless bush..

Tawny is back! There's hope ;)

by the louder bird call you can hear that it is a big space...but the calls in this space are being caged with greynoise

louder bird call is a good point: birds need to sing/call louder in order to communicate , and less elaborated in their repertoire, because of overall increasing sound levels. A massive impoverishment of natural sounds and songs has long since set in here, which is largely ignored, let alone understood. And this general dumbing down is increasing. Which of your non-human neighbours do we know by their name?
Midnight over here.. I'll stop my rants for today 🙏🏼

the traffic came down a bit and it gets clear now is that this sound is fed by industrial processes ....in a dinstance form less than 2km a heavy industrialzone begins

Is there a timetable for the blast furnace tapping or cleaning? That could be interesting. Visually it's spectacular, I've seen it once in Linz, though it was a volcano eruption...

in here, we placed the mike last evening.. the park ends 25-30 m higher up, as 5 story high buildings in front..the main traffic lines are down behind the buildings

greater pleasure to listen, this morning...

Dear we are going to stop the stream now

I've had a machine listening for the last 30min, based on BirdNET-Analyzer https://github.com/kahst/BirdNET-Analyzer. It has recognized Blue tit, Green woodpecker, Nuthatch, Great Tit, Common buzzard, Goldfinch (Blaumeise, Grünspecht, Kleiber, Kohlmeise, Mäusebussard, Stieglitz). It should have heard also Robins and Starlings, though. Maybe the mp3 compression fools the algorithm. Some birds do sound like mp3 artifacts ;)

Thank you for this info..

Good discussions. I’ve mostly observed. It’s also important to acknowledge the time of year. The bird life analysis (ID) is important. It shows some degree of bio diversity. I’m curious how this diversity looks if you move from the center to points in the middle, edges and outside the city. This might reveal a range in the ‘parallels’ you mention.

Unfortunately, Berlin under CDU/SPD gov develops in the other direction. They increasingly ignore or sabotage the Berlin Bicycle Act. However, there are engaged citizens who try to establish things, eg. counters on balconies, for getting reliable figures:

just listening to the garden in Brandenburg, it may stop soon, since the battery is low and solar radiation week today... https://radio.aporee.org:8443/mobilemic0
For testing purposes I have the AI listening too, curious what it finds...

Dear John rewilding efforts are going on in linz in the case of little waters, creeks and so on

Good to hear