Ambisonic Overview: Canada

We traveled across Canada, from the east coast to the west coast, and from the north to the Southern American’ border to capture the spirit of this fantastic country and its wild landscapes.

From infinite forest and boreal forest, to huge lakes, mountain rivers, torrents, ocean, plains, alpine tundra, mountain ranges, caves, and also city environments.

Over the course of 3 months we captured quiet soundscapes from gigantic boreal forests only populated by birds and squirrels. We went to the end of the north road, to the edge of the Saint James Bay, where the ice winds of the <strong>Arctic</strong> met the tundra and the end of the boreal forest.

We discovered many lakes and rivers that characterize this wild country. We crossed the gigantic plains of Manitoba to join the Rocky Mountains and the British Colombia.

Facing this wilderness, we did not forget the cities and its humans: In Montreal and Ottawa we captured many atmospheres: markets, urban parks, streets and pedestrian areas.

We went record in this different locations : Nova Scotia, Montreal, Ottawa, Tadoussac, Bois Robert, Bay James, Ruppert river, Harricana river, Temiscaming forest, Chapleau Faunetic Reserve, Ontario Forest, Manitoba’s prairies, Northern rockies mountains, Salmon Glacier, Lynn canyon, Callaghan lake, Jasper.
All GPS coordinate are include in the sound sheet.

The sound bank contains 68 sound takes (total duration : 329 minutes), recorded in 24/96khZ and split into 272 files

Recordings included:

18 sound takes recorded in the Boreal Forest.
16 sound takes related to “River” environment.
6 sound takes related to “Lake” environment.
4 sound takes related to “Ocean” environment.
3 sound takes related to “Cave” environment.
2 sound takes related to “Alpin” Tundra environment.
2 sound takes related to “Prairie” environment.
9 sound takes related to “Traffic” environment.
4 sound takes recorded in “Market” environment.
3 sound takes recorded in “cities parks” environment.
1 sound takes recorded in a “pedestrain area”.

Files Format:

68 B Format (AmbiX) files, for use directly in 360° movies or VR applications, or to be decoded in many differents formats (binaural, 7.1, 5.1, stéréo, mono, etc…) – for decoding it you can use the Harpex plugin or the free Soundfield/Rodes plugin.
68 5.0 (surround) files, directly decoded from the native A Format from the Sennheiser AMBEO microphone.
68 2.0 (stereo) files, directly decoded from the native A Format from the Sennheiser AMBEO microphone.
68 1.0 (mono) files, directly decoded from the native A Format from the Sennheiser AMBEO microphone, for use directly as 3D sources in games or 360° movies or VR application.

Recording equipment:
Recorder Sound Device Mixpre 10T
Microphone : Sennheiser AMBEO

This sound bank was recorded as part of the Phonography project, an art and itinerant project dedicated to field recording that will take us from Alaska to Ushuaia.