A weekly(ish) answer to the question “What have you been listening to lately?” It’s lightly annotated because I don’t like re-posting material without providing some context. I hope to write more about some of these in the future, but didn’t want to delay sharing them.
▰ Jason (Bassling) Richardson posted this remarkable video he shot of a [lyrebird doing its thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP6x3UOXAqE&t=34s). The variety of sounds, which really do bring to mind a synthesizer, are all the more striking in the context of the bird’s dance.
▰ I spent much of a morning this week listening to just wind chimes, occasional distant thunder, and intermittent bird chatter — all from the video game [*Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2QVG2yxFm0). (Thanks, Naxuu!)
▰ Jesse Goin & Nathan McLaughlin team up on [*Earth Tones Miniatures*](https://nathanmclaughlin.bandcamp.com/album/earth-tones-miniatures), a time-slowing mix of acoustic guitar and deep, soothing drones.
▰ Yoshio Machida’s [*Modulisme Session 041*](https://modulisme.bandcamp.com/album/modulisme-session-041) is an exploratory album of synthesizer music: part minimalist patterning, part brutalist industrial noise-making
Glad you listened to the lyrebird!
It was such a thrill to see and hear their performance after many of years of hoping to spot one of these birds whenever I went into a national park.
You might not recognise the calls but there are around a dozen or so different birds being imitated, as well as that wild synthesiser-like sound and the percussive ga-dunk-ga-dunk near the end.