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This library focuses on isolated recordings of single insects, mainly from Northern Europe. While all insects have been recorded in the wild in Northern Europe, most also appear in all of Europe, Asia, North Africa and some have been introduced to America and Australia too. For this library I recorded various species of wild bees, wasps, bugs, cicades, grasshoppers, flys, dragonflies, butterflies, ants, sandfleas and underwater bugs. A detailed list of all species is at the end. You will find flybys, wing buzzes, hums, rattles, little feet, stridulations, jumps and even bites.
Over the course of years I improved my recording of these little animals by approaching them with a set of different micing techniques, always looking for the best spots to record these small creatures, making sure not to disturb them. Many recordings were performed with microphones and recorders that go up to 192kHz to capture the ultra frequencies emitted by some individuals. Some grasshoppers you won’t even hear unless you pitch them down or play them slower.
While I find their crispy, clear and often bassy sounds lovely, some of the noises of the animals can be decribed as annoying, scary, sharp or intensive. But besides for the original recorded species, these noises can be used to create swarms or all kind of insects or little creatures, like elves, aliens and fairies.
In addition to the close up recordings, I added a few swarms, real and designed, a couple of ambiences and a few designed insect sounds.
Apex Furrowed Bee • Big Fly • Black Tailed Skimmer • Blow Fly • Blue Winged Grasshopper • Bow Winged Grasshopper • Buff Tailed Bumblebee • Butterflies • Purple Emperor • Honey Bee • Mosquito • Wild Bees • Carder Bee • Chelostoma Rapunzuli • Chrysogaster Solstitialis • Cloromia Formosa • Common Field Cricket • Common Green Bottle Fly • Common Wasp • Conocephalus Fuscus • Dragonfly • Drone Fly • Early Bumblebee • Eristalis Pertinax • Eupeodes Luniger • European Orchard Bee • European Wasp • European Wool Carder Bee • False Stable Fly • Field Grasshopper • Flesh Fly • Fly of the Dead • Flying Ant • Gnat • Great Green Bush Cricket • Green Blowfly • Green Rose Chafer • Grey Backed Mining Bee • Gypsy Cuckoo Bee • Hairy Footed Flower Bee • Helophilus Trivittatus • Hornet Hoverfly • House Fly • Italian Tree Cricket • Jigger Flea • Large Bee Fly • March Crane Fly • Meadow Grasshopper • Myathropa Florea • Painted Lady • Pale-saddled Leucozona • Red Tailed Bumblebee • Red Wood Ant • Sand Bee • Sand Wasp • Sawfly Macrophia Montana • Sceliphron Curvatum • Tritomegas Bicolor • Underwater Insects • White Tailed Bumblebee • Wood Cricket •…
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Sound of Essen is a project by Nils Mosh, a field recordist, a sound artist and designer from Essen, Germany. In his works, he explores the spirit of sound from various locations. He always listens to the places in their social context and examines them for the interaction between nature and human-made influences. And in between, he simply opts out of the world and falls in love with the sound of the resonances of a handrail or the delicate chirping of a water beetle. In 2017 his recording „Das Team“ won 2nd price at the international radio award "60 seconds" in Canada. Besides recording in the territory of the wolf GW954f from 2019-2022 for the release „Of wolves and people“ (Gruenrekorder 214) with Melissa Pons, he presented sound art work at festivals like Tonwelten Festival (2023), Blaues Rauschen Festival (2023) or Weimarer Sommer (2018). He collaborated with dance & perfomance artists for performances in Montreal, Tel Aviv and across Germany. He also lectures about field recording at the universities in Darmstadt & Duesseldorf. Besides his sound art & field recording work, he also runs the blog Sound of Essen and sells sound effects for games & movies. His focus is on local sounds, which he explores with his deep knowledge of these specific sounds and which are sometimes hard to get in other places of the world. His libraries range from local animals to unique aircrafts and farming machines.
Sound of Essen is a project by Nils Mosh, a field recordist, a sound artist and designer from Essen, Germany. In his works, he explores the spirit of sound from various locations. He always listens to the places in their social context and examines them for the interaction between nature and human-made influences. And in between, he simply opts out of the world and falls in love with the sound of the resonances of a handrail or the delicate chirping of a water beetle. In 2017 his recording „Das Team“ won 2nd price at the international radio award "60 seconds" in Canada. Besides recording in the territory of the wolf GW954f from 2019-2022 for the release „Of wolves and people“ (Gruenrekorder 214) with Melissa Pons, he presented sound art work at festivals like Tonwelten Festival (2023), Blaues Rauschen Festival (2023) or Weimarer Sommer (2018). He collaborated with dance & perfomance artists for performances in Montreal, Tel Aviv and across Germany. He also lectures about field recording at the universities in Darmstadt & Duesseldorf. Besides his sound art & field recording work, he also runs the blog Sound of Essen and sells sound effects for games & movies. His focus is on local sounds, which he explores with his deep knowledge of these specific sounds and which are sometimes hard to get in other places of the world. His libraries range from local animals to unique aircrafts and farming machines.
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