Hi guys,

I was in Brussels 2 days ago and now in Stockholm, Sweden. I've already recorded night traffic in Brussels and also at 5am exterior snow/water dripping. An interior airplane take off. In Stockholm since last night I've recorded traffic outside my hotel room. So, I'll be recording some more streets, room tone and since we're moving north I'm definetly gonna record some forests! Unfortunately all this with my Sony PCM D50 at 96Khz. But, hey, it's not bad either.

Where exactly do you live?

Is there a small airport near where you live? Visit it and record some of those prop planes and such!

Maybe visit a zoo?

Take your recorder to a subway and hope there isn't many people around - I remember the Metro in L.A. sounding like a spaceship when it comes through.

Or visit a theme park like Six Flags or something and strap it to your chest (hopefully with good wind protection) and get the sounds of the people on the ride and the roller coasters etc.!

Possibilities are endless!

Try rooftop recording, plane recording from a distance, record everything through a tube/box/bottle, rustling in trees, make hydrophone recordings, do tons of contact mic recordings maybe while in a cardboard box or drinking glass, some walla

The steam railway in Swanage runs on weekends. If you get to that area, go out in the open fields, far away from traffic, and record. You'll get a lot of hiss with a Zoom H2 but there's beauty in that too.

Ideas off the top of my head.

Look up local festivals and events that you can get into for free and have the possibility of interesting sounds.

Head to old-school arcades, clock shops, and other more unusual shops.

Do you have any longer passways that have traffic and are accessible safely. Grab the difference sound of cars going in and out of the passway and reverb decay.

I'd actually love some costal recordings. Ports, docs, beaches, etc. I'm inland so that kind of stuff isn't so easy for me to get to.

If you do manage to get that stuff shoot me a message and I'll trade some sounds for them.

thanks!

A quick wiki search presented these opportunities, all of which I'd love to hear:

• The Bournemouth Pleasure Gardens;
• The graveyard at St. Peter's Church, Bournemouth, where Mary Shelley is buried;
• Traffic or other atmos from The Square;
• Interior or exterior atmos at Bournemouth University;
• Make a call to Parvalux (the UK's largest fractional horsepower motor) and see if you can get a tour?

If you're planning ahead, perhaps you can rent some better mics and a recorder for the air show coming up this August?

I live at the seaside and have found it to be a great resource for unusual sounds that are hard to find elsewhere.

A particular favourite, although nothing special, is the sound of donkeys sauntering along with their bells (as in donkey rides on the beach).

Arcades would be ideal, however I've never had any success with permission, due to the copyright issues with the music and recordings played back on arcade machines. Unless you do it surreptitiously... But that would be a bit naughty!

Thinking of where you are, does the pier still stand? If you can get beneath it, the ambience, combined with the sound of the shore, could be interesting.

I think a good location, such as local shopping centers, cafes, markets, museum or school yard. Lots of interesting sounds you can get.