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Recently I was asked to record sounds of an art installation Blackground by Mateusz Chorobski. It’s a black surface of container full of water, which you can walk or lie on. Kind of a black hole in the city center. Because of amount of water in it, it makes many splashy, gurgling sounds which resonates inside the container. The installation was located close to busy road, which made contemplation of it much har

The picture above, which might look like Retro Turntablism (I can’t stop myself imaging retro dj’s party…) was taken in Museum of Phonography in Niepolomice, close to Krakow. I was amazed by their collection of gramophones, old radios, vintage tv sets, tape recorders etc., visiting the museum recently. They were so kind, that they lately let me record, before tourists arrive. I picked for it Neumann KMR 8

So after Trams post, this one is also about the past. Everyone older than 20-30 years, growing in Poland or any other country which was in communist block should be familiar with classic cars from that era. They had very distinct sound. A year ago, working on a beautiful animated short Ziegenort I had to record one of them, one of the smallest car of that era – Fiat 126p. It appeared that it’s not that ea

Well it was heavy raining here recently. So heavy, that there are floods in Central Europe now. I was too busy lately to go out and record rain, but today I managed to record it from different perspective.   I attached contact mic to the window and recorded some nice thunders rumble: [Barcus Berry Plenar Wave 4000 | Sound Devices 702]   And since it started raining heavily, I put hydrophone on balcony handr

Having a child, I have direct access to toys and an excuse to buy new ones. So after last TOY FAN post, here is another one with a toy. Some time ago, I have found this toy piano on a flea market. I thought that it could be nice source of bright sounds, probably good when reversed. And recording its response and dropping it to convolution reverb also sounded promising. I have heard stories of using grand piano for at

I have found this little buddy recently while shopping. Small engines can be very useful for all kind of servos etc. so I knew this will be fun. Fans also do great job when searching for flapping sounds. And using them as a source of friction and recording them with contact mics can’t be overestimated. Tim Prebble who does extraordinary job on his libraries, uses all kind of small drills. And so Noise Jockey la

I was asked once how many sounds Krakow (the city I live in) has. How many specific sound areas there are? Well, there are a few. But living in Europe, in a city with a history, I’m familiar with a specific sound that is present in most of city soundscapes and which is characteristic for Krakow. Trams. The sound which is loud and low enough to be heard inside buildings, even few streets away from tram routes. O

This blog was going to be recordings only, but recently I have found solution for one Pro Tools issue which I wanted to share, so this post is addressed to Pro Tools geeks. Being tired of Pro Tools drops/clicks/latency when trimming automation to a specific value for all region (clip) I was missing one fast solution to do automation ramp up to a specific value on region start and ramp down to zero after region end (I

Recently I found out that I don’t have any good frogs sounds recorded by myself. Last time when I was in a forest nearby my home doing some mic tests (where I record throughout the year), I found out that frogs already started croaking. I planned to go there last saturday evening to record them. This was supposed to be a short trip to that spot. Fast and easy job. It is a perfect moment to record frogs, since t