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Cow Bells Museum

The Bells Museum & Cowbells Museum | Trip

Posted onFebruary 11, 2019May 11, 2020AuthorStephane Fufa1 Comment

What a nice field trip I had, recording the bell museum. I contacted the place few months ago and accepted to open the space just for the recording! The museum is situated exactly on the location of a previous bell Read More …

CategoriesTravel Diary EntryTagsBell, cowbell, France, museum

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

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

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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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Listen from inside one of the world's most extraordinary flowers.

This recording was made from within a giant Rafflesia flower in the rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia. By placing microphones inside the bloom, the recording captures a rare acoustic perspective: the surrounding forest heard through the natural structure of the flower itself.

To make the subtle details more audible, the recording has been pitched down slightly. This reveals delicate movements of insects, distant rainforest activity, and the unique resonance created by the flower's interior, offering a glimpse into what the acoustic world of a Rafflesia might be like.

The recording was made using immersive Soundscape Earsight microphones. While the act of recording inside the flower was relatively straightforward, locating a suitable blooming Rafflesia in the forest was far more challenging. The idea itself fascinated me: not simply recording a flower, but listening from its perspective.

As with all recordings on this channel, this is a genuine field recording captured in a real environment, with minimal processing beyond the pitch adjustment used to reveal details that would otherwise be difficult to hear.

🎧 Headphones recommended for the most immersive experience.

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Inside a Giant Rafflesia | Listening from the World's Largest Flower
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