The high key murder experience!

Here’s my second audio ‘video’ of crows making noise.

This time, they were loud and angry.

I think there were two different murders fighting over … if not that particular stretch of trees, maybe a body?

Anyway, this is the closest recording I have to the time I was swarmed by forty-five crows, and I’ve been carrying around a recorder on my morning walks ever since, hoping to encounter such a sound again.

Finally, last Friday, success!

(And Friday the 13th, no less. How apropos!)

As with the previous video, this is best experienced with headphones. The video itself is just still images, so I encourage you to close your eyes and imagine you’re walking a dog when you suddenly find yourself … surrounded by a high key murder.

 

The low key murder experience

As I’ve been taking my morning walks with the Doggo, I’ve been taking a recorder with me. A Roland R07 recorder paired with Sound Professionals in-ear microphones.

I’ve always been interested in sound and binaural recordings, and this setup allows me to create my own.

The theory is that when you record with in-ear microphones, you’re capturing the sound as a human would naturally hear it, so the recordings are ultra-realistic.

There are people out their who do this professionally, and their recordings are amazing.

I’m strictly amateur, with consumer-grade equipment and not a lot of experience. I’ve been trying to get a good recording of the crows for about three weeks now, and due to time constraints and mystery equipment trouble, finally got to the point of “screw it, this is good enough … for now.”

The inspiration was when I had forty crows swirling and cawing around me. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my recording gear on me when that happened, and since I’ve started recording, I’ve yet to duplicate that intense experience.

So the video embedded below is the tame, low key version of experiencing a frenzied murder. If you do decide to listen, I highly recommend headphones. The experience is much better with them. Like don’t even bother listening without them better.