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Rivers & Waterfalls

Rivers & Waterfalls around the world

Posted onDecember 15, 2018May 11, 2020AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Many countries For the past 10 months, I have been travelling through 20 countries, and I have recorded many rivers (and waterfalls) along the way. Particularly in Switzerland (Alps), in Spain (Pyrenees), in Georgia, and Iceland. I decided to pull Read More …

CategoriesTravel Diary EntryTagsaround the world, river, water, waterfall, world

Singapore Sounds

Some news from another land!

Posted onNovember 26, 2018November 26, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Too busy to blog post Hi everyone! It’s been awhile since I wrote my latest blog post. I was busy and did not have time to update the blog. I did travel to many places, and recorded great sound, I Read More …

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsfield recording, Singapore, Sound Travel, Update

World’s largest palm grove!

Posted onJune 18, 2018April 1, 2021AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Recording ambiences & specifics in the world’s largest palm grove, along the Draa valey! Superbe Unfortunately, the Draa river, that is supposed to pass by the valley, is dry! No water around! This is due to the dam located upstream at Read More …

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsMorocco, palm grove

Montreal 365 project

Montreal 365 ambiences free download | gratuit

Posted onJune 13, 2018June 15, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Hi, I am so proud to present my newest sound library collection: Montreal 365! It represents a work that spans over 5 years of recording! I am happy to make available for free all the 365 ambiences in a low resolution Read More …

CategoriesUncategorizedTags365, Download, free, montreal, Montreal 365, MTL, YUL

Sahara desert

the Sahara – Witnessing Quietude!

Posted onJune 11, 2018April 1, 2021AuthorStephane Fufa2 Comments

It is remarkable to not hear any sound, and this is what I experienced in the desert! The sand absorbs any reverberation and any sound is dampened. It was not all quiet though! At times I could hear distant motorbikes. Read More …

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsdesert, Morocco, quiet, quietude, Sahara, sand, soundscape

Road to the Desert

The road to the desert!

Posted onJune 6, 2018April 1, 2021AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

With Momo and Hamid, towards the Sahara! What a journey! Artbits (by Articulated) · Morocco I

CategoriesUncategorizedTagscamel, desert, desrt, dry, Field, Morocco, Sahara, sand, trip

Planning a trip

Posted onJune 5, 2018April 1, 2021AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Me as a nomad Touareg planning a trip to the desert! Artbits (by Articulated) · Morocco I

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsdesert, Morocco, plan, trip

Recording rooftops

Recording soundscapes from Ouarzazate Rooftops!

Posted onJune 4, 2018April 1, 2021AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Artbits (by Articulated) · Morocco I

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsambience, Maghreb, Morocco, Ouarzazate, prayer, roof, rooftop, soundscape

walking desert

Walking to the water

Posted onJune 4, 2018April 1, 2021AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Walking in the mountains and finding water source in such dry place! We drank tea at Tizgui, I could record incredible frogs in the source canyon! Artbits (by Articulated) · Morocco I

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsdry, frogs, Morocco, water source

Dropping by the Atlas Mountains

Posted onJune 2, 2018April 1, 2021AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Marvellous and Gorgeous sceneries! Artbits (by Articulated) · Morocco I

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsAtlas, landscape, mountains, scenery, soundscape

Jardin secret de Marrakesh

Le jardin secret de Marrakesh

Posted onMay 30, 2018April 1, 2021AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Artbits (by Articulated) · Morocco I

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsambience, Hidden gem, Jardin secret, Marrakesh, Medina, Morocco, Nature in the city

Marrakesh

Colorful Medina in Marrakesh!

Posted onMay 29, 2018April 1, 2021AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Marrakesh is full of colors, scents and sounds!!! A big melting pot! this is an impressive non-stop theater of many shades! Artbits (by Articulated) · Morocco I

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsAfrica, colorful, Maghreb, Marrakesh, Medina, Morocco, scents, smells, souk

Madrid! La gran ciudad

Posted onMay 27, 2018May 27, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

The market , a nice place to get tapas, wine and  great crowd ambiences!! Something’s happening in here! After many difficult place to sleep in, dormitory and crappy places, I finally got a nice comfortable bed!

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsambience, Atmosphere, city, Ciudad, Madrid, spain

Pamplona

Pamplona

Posted onMay 27, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsambience, city, Pamplona, soundscape, spain

Small Basque village

Posted onMay 27, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsambience, Atmosphere, basque, discovery, soundscape, travel

Recording river sound

Obsessed again with rivers and waterfalls

Posted onMay 26, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

   

CategoriesUncategorizedTagscountryside, forest, mountain, nature, navarra, river, rivers, spain, stream, water, waterfall

magnificent tree

The sound of the forest

Posted onMay 26, 2018May 26, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

CategoriesUncategorizedTagstree

Irri Sarri

Navarra y Pais Vasco!

Posted onMay 25, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Getting high up in the trees to record those ambiences! Dirt park means a lot of dirt recording?  

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsirri sarri, landscape, nature, navarra, Pais vasco, soundscape

Sea and the city

Posted onMay 25, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

This day I am recording some ambiences of the city of Biarritz. At this place, the sea is agitated and generate high waves. This is thus a great spot for surfer. It also deliver highly noisy sea shore soundscape. The Read More …

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsambience, Beach, Biarritz, city, France, Harbour, ocean, Pais vasco, sea, surf

Capbreton

Harbour ambience at Cap Breton, France

Posted onMay 24, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsambience, Boat, Capbreton, France, Harbour, Port, sea, wildscape

Recording wavelets at Lac Biscarosse

Posted onMay 23, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsBiscarosse, field recording, France, glacier, Lac, lake, wavelets

Réserve ornithologique at Teich

Posted onMay 23, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsArcachon, birds, France, parc, reserve

Ambiences in port ostréïcole, Andernos

Posted onMay 23, 2018May 23, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsambience, Andernos, France, Ostreicole, Port

Prés salé d’Arès

Posted onMay 22, 2018May 22, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Wonderful place with a great biodiversity. Unfortunately traffic noise pollution is loud.  

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsArès, France, landscape, nature

Toulouse City

Posted onMay 22, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

a little stopover Toulouse! Nice people around here!

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsambience, city, France, Toulouse

Parc Régional du Haut Languedoc

Parc Régional du Haut Languedoc

Posted onMay 21, 2018May 21, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

I found some water streams that sounded pretty nicely!

CategoriesUncategorizedTagslandscape, Languedoc, nature, parc, soundscape, Sun

market Lodeve

Lodève

Posted onMay 21, 2018May 21, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

the Sunday market in Lodeve is refreshing!

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsFrance, Languedoc, Lodeve, market, town

Teyran

the town where I grew up

Posted onMay 20, 2018May 20, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsFrance

Cassis

Market day in Cassis

Posted onMay 20, 2018May 20, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsCassis, Crowd, France, market, south france

les Calanques

Recording more rocks in the Calanques

Posted onMay 20, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

The Calanques are rock formations near the sea. It offers beautiful scenery, and great rocks playground!

CategoriesUncategorizedTagscalanques, France, rock, rocks

Draguignan

Charming southern France town

Posted onMay 19, 2018May 18, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

I made my way to Draguignan, this nice charming town inside the land between Marseille and Nice! I met up with an old friend! Everything is so charming at this season!

CategoriesUncategorizedTagscity, Draguignan, France, southern France, town

Recording Pigeons & Water streams

Posted onMay 18, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsFrance, Nice, pigeons, water stream

Nice is Nice

Posted onMay 18, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Beautiful Nice city! It got the right name! The old town has nice little colored streets with smells ans shops. Great soundwalk in here! Of course, the sea is omnipresent! This floor made me dizzy somehow:

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsambience, Atmosphere, city, France, market, Nice, sea, soundscape

Above the clouds

Posted onMay 17, 2018May 17, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

For few hours, my body is transported in an alternative reality. Everything looks smooth and silky from up there! I can’t appreciate more the window seat! For few minutes I almost forgot about the loud plane rumble. The world is Read More …

CategoriesUncategorizedTagscloud, plane, sky, travel

the chickens are (almost) free!

Posted onMay 13, 2018May 13, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Along my walks around Freiamt in the Black Forest region, I found these little chicken running freely in the grass! This was so rejoicing to see these little creature in these conditions.

CategoriesUncategorized

Eichbergturm! What a nice observation tower

Posted onMay 11, 2018May 13, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsaltitude, black forest, forest, germany, landscape, soundscape, tower, turm

Inside the Black Forest Region!

Posted onMay 8, 2018May 8, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsambience, birds, black forest, dark, forest, germany

Clock Time!

Posted onMay 2, 2018AuthorStephane FufaLeave a comment

Recording clocks in the most well-known region of the world for its clocks and watches! There great kind of clocks of all sorts! in Morteau, la fond-de-chaux, et LeLocle!

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsclock, La fond de chaux, Lelocle, Morteau, Swiss, switzerland, time, watch

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I’m Stéphane Fufa Dufour, a nomadic field recordist exploring the world through sound. SoundXplorer is my journal of the places I travel, the moments I record, and the stories behind each sonic discovery.
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Journey with me into the ancient bamboo forests of the Shunan Bamboo Sea in Sichuan, China. As night falls, the forest comes alive with the distinctive chorus of the Emei Music Frog (*Nidirana daunchina*), a species renowned for its remarkably rhythmic, tonal calls and its unique mud nest building behaviour.

This recording is an authentic two hour excerpt from a continuous recording lasting more than twenty four hours. To capture the frogs without human disturbance, I deployed an autonomous drop rig deep within the bamboo forest and left it recording throughout the night. What you hear is a genuine moment from that long recording.

[The Concept & Disclaimer]

As a field recordist, my goal is to document the raw, unfiltered acoustic ecology of remote natural environments.

A quick note: the visual for this video is a static, cinematic representation of the bamboo forest rather than live wildlife footage. I am an audio first creator, and my primary focus here is a deep listening experience. By leaving an autonomous recording system in the forest for more than twenty four hours, I was able to capture the frogs behaving naturally without my presence influencing their activity.

[The Audio Experience]

🎧 Headphones highly recommended!

The Emei Music Frog produces one of the most distinctive choruses I have encountered during my years of field recording. Rather than long melodic calls, the chorus is built from rhythmic, tonal pulses that almost resemble the repeated plucking of tiny stringed instruments. Individuals answer one another from different directions, creating a rich acoustic texture that slowly evolves throughout the recording.

There are no loops, no AI generated audio, no added ambience. This is an authentic excerpt from a continuous field recording, captured in the bamboo forest.

Close your eyes, let the natural acoustics of the Shunan Bamboo Sea surround you, and enjoy this remarkable chorus.

[About the Species]

The Emei Music Frog (*Nidirana daunchina*) is native to southwestern China, where it inhabits forest wetlands and quiet mountain valleys. During the breeding season, males construct mud nests from which they call to attract females. Their highly structured vocalizations and unusual breeding behaviour have made this species an important subject of bioacoustic and behavioural research.

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[Recording Notes] 🎙️

Location: Shunan Bamboo Sea (Shunan Zhuhai), Sichuan, China

Environment: Ancient bamboo forest at night

Subject: Emei Music Frog (*Nidirana daunchina*)

Microphones: LOM MikroUsi

Technique: Autonomous drop rig

Recording duration: Over 24 hours continuous

Presented excerpt: 2 hours

Recorder: Sony A10

Post processing: Unfiltered, minimal EQ, no noise reduction

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[Copyright Notice]

All audio and video in this project is original work. Please do not copy, re upload, or distribute this content without permission. If you are interested in using these recordings for your own projects, I would be happy to discuss licensing. Please reach out to [inquiry@soundxplorer.com](mailto:inquiry@soundxplorer.com).

*Frog image on the thumbnail from (c)Chung-Hang Hung
Emei Music Frog Chorus | Shunan Bamboo Sea, China | 2 Hours Pure Field Recording
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