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Trains in the Valley

by Evocative Sound and Visuals

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Geoffrey Fiedler
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Geoffrey Fiedler Such immersive soundscapes you are “painting” with your recorders. I am fully there when listening, and the rich audio envelops me with the sounds of the valley. Wonderful!
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    Your purchase entitles you to the bonus track consisting of the entire 55:19 album. A soundscape including the sound of nine pass bys of both steam and diesel-electric locomotives. They are captured from the same location during all four seasons.
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For the past year, during all four seasons, I set up stereo microphones, including my binaural head, capturing the soundscape of Cuyahoga Valley National park from the same location.

During my initial recording session, I heard the low-end rumble of an approaching train. Come to find out there is an excursion train that runs the length of the park. It was about to pass in the valley below. I love the sound of trains, both up close and distant, for varied reasons.

Trains in the Valley blends all four seasons into one continuous 55:19 track. It begins in winter. Woodpeckers drum on bare limbs. A wedge of Canada geese honks as they take to the skies on a bone-chilling morning. Dead leaves, still clinging to their branches, crackle in the wind. Melting icicles drip from naked trees above as the sun’s rays touch them at first light. 

In spring, a pair of white-tailed deer snort back and forth, over and over again, as the steam train approaches. They are either upset with my presence, the train, or both. With summer comes the ever-present sound of crickets chirping through the night. Fall means the return of cooler temperatures. Chipmunks scamper across dry leaves. Deer are still around, as are the crickets.

Month by month the train lumbers past. A constant, from north to south and back again. Its steam whistle sounds like a forlorn call in the night. Its steel wheels roll along the tracks like a far-off thunderstorm. The train's sonic intensity and tone change ever so slightly with each passing season. And you are able to sit on the gravel path, look up at the trees swaying above your head, swat a few mosquitoes away and take it all in.

Downloads are for PERSONAL USE ONLY. Please reach out if you would like to use these sounds for COMMERCIAL purposes, i.e., sound effects collections.

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released June 7, 2022

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Evocative Sound Northfield, Ohio

Evocative Sound & Visuals is the place for unique environmental recordings captured, crafted and preserved by field recordist Richard Alan Hannon. Our natural soundscape is changing right before our ears. Share my appreciation for what we still have, my discovery of sounds ignored and my work to preserve them. ... more

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