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Sound Clip: Pipistrelle Bat by Ian Rawes of The London Sound Survey
This is a recording of the sonar of a Common Pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus Pipistrellus) made on the 14th of October, 2009. A heterodyne bat detector set at 45kHz was in used in conjunction with a pocket digital recorder. A longer version of this recording appears on the London Sound Survey website.
The Pipistrelle is Britain’s most numerous bat, and they favor flying near streams, ponds and other bodies of water. The recording was made by the Ravensbourne river in the district of Catford, which is in south-east London.
Hallo,
nice sound. I have a concert piece called “Nachtflug” (Nightflight) from 1999 that I (we) performed several times, a sort of live musique concrète. It was also performed recently by canadian music students.
P. Behrendsen
Hello, I love this. It reminds me of Robert Jarvis’s work with bat detectors and wavelengths… I love projects that make the sound of bats audible to our ears! Thanks.
Very nice. Hard to imagine this wasn’t processed. I’m navigating the London Sound Survey site and I’m having trouble locating the longer recording. Its not under the wildlife section as one would expect.
Beautiful. And a great site beautifully executed by the way.
And today a friend of mine had a dream that I’m too bat-like and you sent me this link!
I have used the sounds of bats in several of my compositions. Here is one http://andypink.co.uk/blog/
Hi Kyle,
The longer bat recording is here:
http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/wildlife/other_animals/121/621/
Wildlife > Mammals > Common Pipistrelle
Thanks for all your kind comments, and many thanks to Margaret for presenting the recording on Sound is Art.
Ian
Wow! sounds great!
Great post, thanks for sharing.