Looking for good quality bird chirping

[chrisssj2]

For relaxing meditation purpose.
Not just the run of the mill youtube video's (unless it's areally good one with good quality)

Since most recordings of bird chirping/forest sounds are quite poor, and often have cars or other audio in them.
I am sure there must exist some good quality bird chirping/forest sounds, that are natural and diverse, not artificially created in a repeat sequence.

I have tried searching around, but youtube seems the best I can find.
And some Xpherience Forest music with a special technique that uses the golden ratio, which is nice. but not exactly what I look for, but it's close.

 

[chrisssj2]

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[limpidglitch]

Have you searched Archive.org?
 
Using search terms like "nature sounds" and "field recording" might work better than to just use "bird song".

You can also search by subject by appending say AND subject:"birds" to the search phrase.
 
Oh, and I haven't looked myself, but I bet there's a lot to be found on Soundcloud as well.

 

[chrisssj2]

Soundcloud.. not exactly perfect.. since I need lossless quality But it's something.
Also these are usually short individual files mostly?

looking for 20 minutes - > 1 hour tracks of PURELY bird songs.

I mean birds+ frogs and whatnot can be nice too I like those too.
But for some reason I think ill be able to better meditate with purely bird songs.

What do you mean with appending say AND subject:"birds" 

how would my search phrase be?

Nature sounds subject:birds ?
that gives me 0 results literally

 

[chrisssj2]

Actually what I am specially searching is a bird song that is not too monotonous in it's initial sound. but then is repeated for a longer time, let's say 10 minutes 20 minutes atleast so I can put it in repeat mode.

But here it comes what I really need:
Not so much the bird singing on the foreground though that is important too, it is found easily in the bird tracks I find.
It often miss the song that is in the background. that is repeated in a very timely manner it is very relaxing.
This is for me the most important aspect.

 

[limpidglitch]

You'll be missing out on a lot if you insist on lossless. Like this one, should be pretty much what you're looking for?
 
If you want a more professional presentation it might be worth looking at professional field recording artists. One of the biggest names here is Chris Watson. His main job is to record most of the audio you get on all those wonderful BBC wildlife documentaries, but on the side he's been releasing a lot nice albums. His subjects and how he treats the audio varies a lot, but there should be something that interests you in his discography. A few contenders might be Cima Verde, which was recorded at Monte Bondone, Trentino, northern Italy. Or In St Cuthbert's Time, recorded at Lindisfarne, north-eastern England. Or Cross-Pollination, recorded in the Kalahari desert (the latter half of this album has been augmented with a chorus, but it's still very calm and low key).
 
If you like the Lindisfarne recordings, or seaside sounscapes in general, you might want to check out Elin Øyen Vister, a personal favourite.
 
One last option could be for me to bring along my portable recorder next time I take a walk in the mountains here in Bergen. Maybe tomorrow morning already, seems like it will be rainy for the rest of the week. 

 

[chrisssj2]

Thanks! the one you suggest is a pretty good example of what I want.
Just the background whistling is a little bit different from the one I search for, and it is kinda hard to describe. Could be a typical sort of a birds.
Well I do hear some of the songs I mean actually I mean kind of at 5:20 5:35 around here in the background. and again at 6:07 , 7:38 a different one around 10:59:11:00 again.. but short and low volume.
But it is hardly noticeable not so much present, not so transparent. and fairly short.

It's because im kinda trying to induce a trance/meditative state.
And for me those sounds seem sensitive.
Also had neighbours with certain kind of birds in the morning waking up...
 
The quality of this recording seems kinda poor to be honest, I hear a lot of noise in the background... Not sure if that's because it's mp3 or just the recording itself.
I am so insistent on Losless because, I have a Fiio X5 and a Ultrasone signature Pro. And I want to get the max out of it, and also with this setup I easily hear distortion/low quality files..
It can detract me from inducing this trance state...
 I mean it's 35 mb when downloaded also..128 kbps.. that might explain something.

I will take a look at your other suggestions if they contain some good content.
You think that could work? I am not sure how people record these things(expensive stuffs maybe), and if a portable recorder can do the job. but if so, by all means

THANKS ALOT for your time to respond. appreciated.

 

[limpidglitch]

I've never tried to meditate, so I might have a hard time understanding exactly what you're after. Sorry about that.
Birdsong is restricted to a rather narrow audio band, and is harmonically quite simple, meaning that as far as sounds go it's pretty easy to compress it in a lossy manner without quality loss. But I agree, 128 kbps is probably too low.
I went for a short trip this morning, but it's still early in the year, and a bit cloudy, so there wasn't a lot of singing going on. I'll give it another try in a week or two's time.
Recording equipment is of course important (I use a Sony D50, which should be adequate for this kind of work), but when it comes to noise, it's the environment that's the biggest problem. Airplanes, helicopters, a highway somewhere in the distance, or just the wind blowing and water running. One might not notice it so easily before one really has to take notice, but there's a little bit of background noise pretty much anywhere you go outside.
 
If you're interested in the more intricate roles sound plays in the landscape, soundscape ecology is a really fascinating subject.

 

[Music Alchemist]

If I recall, Steve Roach's Quiet Music album had some good chirping on it, but mixed with ambient music. (Which can make the experience even more meditative.)

 

[khanhnhatle]

Try Jim Fassett's Symphony of the Birds: https://soundcloud.com/andr-s-antal-ker-kgy-rt/sets/jim-fassett-symphony-of-the
Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but might be fun to check out. And it was published as a CD.

 

[chrisssj2]

  Try Jim Fassett's Symphony of the Birds: https://soundcloud.com/andr-s-antal-ker-kgy-rt/sets/jim-fassett-symphony-of-the
Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but might be fun to check out. And it was published as a CD.

Ty I listened to it but no this is not what im looking for.. one bird sound was kinda nice . Thanks for letting me know.

Marcus Knudsen Xpherience summer rain forest etc. have bird chirpings that is pretty close to what I search (though it's embedded with golden ratio which adds some weird noise)

If it just had some nice background chirpings.. like an echo.. (I don't know the type bird, but it's specific, though I think a couple different birds can do this.)

 

[chrisssj2]

  If I recall, Steve Roach's Quiet Music album had some good chirping on it, but mixed with ambient music. (Which can make the experience even more meditative.)

Downloading it right now!
I see what u mean. but personally some ambience is really distracting.. it depends..
Thanks!

 

[Lord Chaos]

For straight nature sounds of all kinds, including wolves, look up Gordon Hempton's CDs. They have very good sound. No music, though.
 
For pure birdsong, usually short pieces concentrating on one type of bird, look for Donald Kroodsma's CDs. These are wonderful. For your purposes, I think you'd have to set up a playlist, or perhaps use Audacity to combine the tracks into longer pieces.
 
For birdsong plus sensitive music, try Dan Gibson's CDs. I have several, and they're great for drifting away. The music is never obtrusive. Neither is the birdsong. Balanced, and subtly complex. I particularly enjoy his "Songbirds at Sunrise."
 
Something a little different: Paul Winter's "Canyon Lullaby." This has nature sounds, including birds, recorded in the canyon country of the United States, over which he plays his alto saxophone. It's well balanced, and a favorite of mine.
 
I also have an "Echoes of Nature" series that's very good. Different situations, including a thunderstorm.
 
A better thunderstorm-related piece is Ed van Fleet's (Synchestra) "Silver Ships." Well done synthesizer music with rain and thunder.
 
A great pure thunderstorm: Michael Oster's "Suburban Thunderstorm," recorded with a Crown SASS-P Mk II stereo mic in his Florida backyard.

 

[Music Alchemist]

  Downloading it right now!
I see what u mean. but personally some ambience is really distracting.. it depends..
Thanks!

 
Oh, cool. Let me know what you think of the album!