This first recording was captured in a woodland near my parents home. I was on a walk and noticed a rotting tree stump with an ant colony working busily away inside. I went home and got my recording equipment and found to my surprise just how noisy these small creatures are!
On another wander I came across a wire fence which created lovely sounds in the wind one afternoon.
Wytham Woods is owned by Oxford University and is used primarily for research purposes. It's very large and well maintained, what's unusual however is that it's not open to the public. However I managed to obtain a permit for walking there. It's an ideal area of woodland for uninterrupted recording sessions.
One grey afternoon at the end of a long walk within the woods it began to rain and I placed my contact microphone on a fence. The resulting sounds of the rain hitting the fence have a particularly musical quality. I recall as I stood listening for the best part of an hour, that I forgot I wasn't listening to a composition of some description.
Personally it reminds me a bit of this Aphex Twin track... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AuxX0B_94
