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Hello fellow Freesounders!

Up to early 2016 I was regularly uploading my natural soundscape recordings to FS, but then, really without time or resources for the necessary promotion work, I sought to get more commercially oriented, having switched over from the Sony PCM-M10 to the PCM-D100, with its much better stereo imaging.

In the event I got only a very occasional sale, and I think I must have gone two years now without any sales at all — and still don't have the time / resources to devote to promoting them commercially.

So I finally decided that, rather than have this large and high-grade collection of recordings doing nothing here, I'd start an ongoing programme of uploading (normally CD-quality versions of) the best of those to Freesound so that at least some other people could benefit from them. They will all come under the Attribution/Noncommercial licence.

In order that I still have enough time to give necessary attention to my fundamentally highest-priority activities (particularly running and further developing my Clarity of Being site, https://www.clarity-of-being.org), I expect to space out my FS uploads — quite likely something in the order of one a week, though varying according to what else is going on for me.

Many of the recordings are long, so ones above 1GB for 16/44.1 resolution would have to be either split or have just part uploaded. They will come from all the main subject areas that I'd established during my PCM-M10 years of recording (2012 to early 2016), and include some really outlandishly weird and inspirational combinations of wind chimes out in the wild, full of microtonal intervals, some of them with really mind-boggling half-speed versions. Another big feature is the fruits of some of my **all-night** recording sessions alone out in the wilds, with some wonderful entire birds' dawn choruses.

My first upload since I decided to do this is now online here — a full birds' dawn chorus (over 2 hours after editing, including a bit of lead-in time) from a high vantage point in the so-called Teign Gorge in the north-east outskirts of the Dartmoor National Park. It's nearly all a distant panorama, and thus a quiet one. That was made in my first-ever all-night field recording session, and I've created a page with an account of how I came about to do such a 'crazy' thing, and the context within which that took place, which no doubt some people would find intriguing and indeed inspiring — https://www.broad-horizon-nature.co.uk/all-night-recording-sessions.htm —, while no doubt others would dismiss me as crazy / delusional (Tell me something new, Mrs Moo!).

That first dawn chorus recording is at https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/656898/ .

I've no plans to keep announcing new uploads here, but this is just to alert those who may be interested to subscribe to my page so they do get notifications.