Recordist Profile
John Hartog
Professional sound recordist
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United States of America
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About
John Hartog is a sound recording artist with a specialty in stereo representations of natural space.
During initial explorations in natural sound, surprised by a pervasive element of anthropogenic noise from aircraft and highway traffic that could be heard nearly everywhere, he awoke to the values of natural quiet, and began listening between the noise.
Featured Recordings
Location: Cape Falcon, Oregon,
United States
Habitat: Temperate forest & coast
Notes: Water droplets fall from the trees like rain on the ferns and salal below. A large winter ocean swell brings relaxing deep breath sounds of surf sieved though smoothly rounded gravel. More info
Location: John Day River Basin, Oregon,
United States
Habitat: Temperate forest
Notes: An unlikely exchange between predator and prey, Great Horned Owls (Bubo virginianus) and a Western Screech-Owl (Otus kennicottii) call during pre-dawn stillness with a background ambience of distant wind though juniper and rugged terrain. More info
Location: Hart Mountain Refuge, Oregon,
United States
Habitat: Sage grassland
Notes: An early morning sageland soundscape featuring short-eared owls (Asio flammeus) with barks, hoots and wing-claps. Other species include Wilson’s snipe, sage thrasher, vesper sparrow, and savannah sparrow, greater sage grouse. More info
