Many bells: in the Muktinath Temple, Lower Mustang, Nepal

Hindus and Buddhists alike visit Muktinath since hundreds of years. Its a very holy place where you can find water, air and fire on the same place.

In the middle of the Muktinath Temple area is a gallery with hundreds of bells of all sizes surrounded by the "108 Water Spouts" (you can hear them quite well in the background) where pilgrims fill water of all 108 different sources into a bootle to drink this holy water and also to bring it home.

The bells fascinated me a lot and the picture shows a very interesting arrangement.

Recorded with Zoom H2 and Soundman OKM.

Nilgiri: from the north, Nepal

I did this recording from the window of my hotel room in Jomsom, Lower Mustang, Nepal. From my hotel room I could see the frightening Nilgiri and the Jomsom Airport.

Someone on the airport played this nice instrument and tune. I neither know the instrument not the song. Maybe you can help.

Recorded on August 24th 2008 with Zoom H2 and the built-in microphones in stereo.

Fabric store: in Pokhara, Nepal

The end of the monsoon was in sight and it seemed that this heavy rainfall could be last rise. So I put my Zoom recorder on the balcony of my hotel room and went for some nice and very hot food.

After my return I found this nice recording with folk-music performed in the hotel lounge.

Recorded on August 25th 2008 with Zoom H2 and built-in microphones uncompressed.

Cow: in Mustang, Nepal.

Cows are not that big in Mustang, Nepal. But the dogs who protect the villages are. You can hear them running around the villages all night and its hard to fall asleep.

Recorded with Zoom H2 and built-in microphon uncompressed.

Location: Gelling, Mustang - August 2008

Sun: with a ring in Pokhara, Nepal 2008

The Gupteshwor Mahadev Cave is a very holy place for the Hindu people. What I liked that much is that the Hindu people are so happy to be there that they express it within the holy place.

How much I love this bells!

On the day of this recording I could see these beautiful solar rings (Sonnenringe).

Recorded with Zoom H2 and Soundman OKM in Pokhara, Nepal - August 2008.

Bob Marley Hotel: Muktinath, Lower Mustang, Nepal.

In the beginning of this recording the prayers wheel sounds like a motor-bike. With the horn of the car it seams like a urban soundtrack of machines, but then the prayers wheel brings in its very special note of sound. Magic!

Recorded with Zoom H2 and Soundman OKM - August 2008 in Kathamandu, Nepal

7:30 in the morning: Surrounded by noise!

I am living in Linz, Freistädterstrasse. South of my house is a main-traffic-road of the city of Linz, west of it is a big gas-station with a big car wash and north of my house they build many houses.

When I got up on April 20th at 7:30 and opened my 42db noise-pretection-windows to get some nice air into the space I got three different noise levels into my house.

North: Construction work

This recording was done with the Zoom H2 and the built-in mics. Out of the window in my sleeping room.

7:30 in the morning: Surrounded by noise!

7:30 in the morning. Surrounded by noise!

I am living in Linz, Freistädterstrasse. South of my house is a
main-traffic-road of the city of Linz, west of it is a big gas-station
with a big car wash and north of my house they build many houses.

When I got up on April 20th at 7:30 and opened my 42db
noise-pretection-windows to get some nice air into the space I got
three different noise levels into my house.

South: Traffic jam at Freistädterstrasse

This recording was done with the Zoom H2 and the built-in mics. on my balcony.

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7:30 in the morning.: Surrounded by noise!

7:30 in the morning. Surrounded by noise!

I am living in Linz, Freistädterstrasse. South of my house is a main-traffic-road of the city of Linz, west of it is a big gas-station with a big car wash and north of my house they build many houses.

When I got up on April 20th at 7:30 and opened my 42db noise-pretection-windows to get some nice air into the space I got three different noise levels into my house.

West: Construction work at the gas-station (loud compressor)

This recording was done with the Zoom H2 and the built-in mics. out of my kitchen window.

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Parade - 3rd Day At Petrinum: Masterdrummer of Nepal before drumming and marching

Parade is a project curated by Keith Goddard and Peter Kuthan for Linz09 . More info & pics at the Parade homepage .

Location: This recording was done in the courtyard of the Petrinum monastery in Linz, Austria.

The bands marched into the courtyard and did a "concert" while marching rounds or taking a position in the space. The music of the bands blend into each other. A constant waving. Beautiful.

Parade - 3rd Day At 20er Turm

The drummer of Simonga-Maliko gets some horsepower to make it up the hill to the Pöstlingberg.

The "20er Turm" was built to protect the city of Linz against the troops of Napoleon in the 18th century. No heavy fights happend around this tower, the French army was too powerfull. The Simonga-Mailko from Zimbabwe walked around the tower and played their unique music with their Tonga horns (nyele), beautiful vocals and drums.

Recorded with Zoom H2 and Soundman OKM on May 3rd 2009.

Length: 8:57

Infos and great pictures by Werner Puntigam on the Parade/Linz09 here .

Parade - 3rd Day At Mayrwiese

People moving behind the Simonga-Maliko up to the Pöstlingberg in Linz, Austria.

The Simonga-Maliko moved on the left way up to the top and I moved in middle of the Mayrwiese (where I learned skiing). The music sounds from ~150 meters away to my Soundman microphons but then they walked behind a ridge and I could only hear them from very far away. On the right side of my path there is a little forest and if you concentrate on the right channel of the recording you can hear this beautiful delays and echos out of the forest.

Recorded with Zoom H2 and Soundman OKM on May 3rd 2009 in Linz, Austria.

Length of the recording: 4:30

Sachsen - Franken Express

Trainride from Dresden to Nürnberg, Germany. The train has the beautiful name Sachsen - Franken Express and rides through a great landscape.

On a stop the train made this awesome sound.

Recorded April 2nd 2009 with Zoom H2 with built-in microphones.

Tunnel: On the way to Mair Alm near Traunstein.

On the way to the Kleiner Schönberg next to the Traunstein in Upper Austria. It is always the first mountain tour of the year for my wife and me to worship the composer Arnold Schönberg.

First you walk through 2 long tunnels before you move up steep to the Kleiner Schönberg (950 m) next to the imposing Traunstein (1.450 m).

Recorded July 5th 2009 with Zoom H2 and built-in microphones.

Haydn explosiv: "Haydn explosiv": The Roy Lichtenstein carpet from a different perspective! pic. by Dorninger

"Haydn explosiv" is an outstanding exhibition at Schloss Esterhazy in Eisenstadt curated by Herbert Lachmayer.

In March / April I had the pleasure to create the sounddesign and a soundtrack for this exhibition. While doing the installation I recorded some nice sounds from the workprocess.

Soundsource: A worker attached fabric to an object with a tacker. What I really like is not only the sound of the tacker in the castle it is the rhythmn created by the workprocess.

Recorded with Zoom H2 and built-in microphon 44.1khz/24bit