Pure rotating air

Sounds of a wind generator - one in a farm of around 25 towers - in the flat Brandenburg countryside north of Berlin. A surprising amount of wildlife seems to be able to co-exist with the humming physical presence of these huge towers, especially a good variety of small birds whose habitat is open fields and patchy woodland, such as sky and wood larks. There are many deer. An audio stream was set up for 3 days, with mics hidden in a low bush near a hunting hide at the edge of the trees, to listen to this combination of green tech and nature. It is an 'anthropophone' (term courtesy Udo Noll) - to hear places where problematic interactions between the human and the natural are audible. Given the ever increasing demands for clean energy this rotating humming mix is likely to be the dominant sonic future in rural areas. The generators follow the rise and fall of wind speeds and the changes of direction. Sometimes they are becalmed. The mechanism emits unpredictable sharp metallic twangs every now and again that reverberate through the towers and out into the surrounding landscape. Winds gives these machines a seemingly organic character of their own and a quirky musicality. This track occurred during the dark night. It is pure rotating air. There are no other sounds.