Notes on the record

A harbour is loudest before anyone is awake to hear it. These recordings start at half past four.

How it was recorded

Two small microphones on a rail, a recorder in a dry bag and a week of early mornings. Nothing was added afterwards; the twelve recordings are in the order they were made.

• Stereo pair, about one metre above the water.
• No filtering apart from a gentle cut below 40 Hz.
• Best on headphones, at a low volume.

Files

Each recording can be downloaded as a lossless file named like harbour-01.flac. Previews are limited to ninety seconds.