Wind Is the Original Radio
Episodes
Five Ways to Honour Our Green Spaces with Watson Whitford
19 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the wind is the original radio podcast! Today we have an extra special episode, in which we are sharing with you an episode from Indigenou...
March Equinox 2026 with Anna Clock
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This hour long mix comprises of field recordings made on and around Spring Equinoxes of various years. It takes you down through the Northern Hemisphe...
Bird Ambient Mix with Thay
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to share a special set by artist Asa 808, a 2-hour journey ideal to softly immersive oneself in the nature sounds, instruments and sp...
December Solstice by Cameron Randall
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bodies Extend Themselves Toward a Breathtaking Absence of Limits Earth.FM has the pleasure and honour to announce our collaboration with multidisci...
Interview: Jakub Orzęcki
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I try to find places that still carry a bit of this [...] feeling that [...] something might be watching me in the place I try to record, or that I...
Listening With x Earth.FM
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was created by Earth.FM's curator Melissa Pons for the multidisciplinary artist Cameron Randall, on his show Listening With at Resonance....
Interview: Endless Fields pt. 2
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“To record well, you have to be listening well.” This episode, part two from Endless Fields 2025, features a further selection of interviews be...
Interview: Endless Fields pt. 1
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Earth.fm curator Melissa Pons was recently invited to attend Endless Fields 2025, as one of seven sound artists-in-residence at Portugal’s Estúdio ...
Interview: Serge Bulat
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I welcome every noise around me. No matter what it is: a duck, a fish, a deer farting. [...] You invite it all. And [...] this is [...] when you re...
Interview: George Vlad
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Sound is life for me.” The latest installment of the Earth.fm podcast, Wind Is the Original Radio, finds curator Melissa Pons in conversation ...
Interview: Nahun Saldaña
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I prefer to live in the fantasy, not in the desperation of the crisis [...], you know?” This latest episode of Earth.fm’s Wind Is the Origin...
March Equinox 2025
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For this March Equinox we have prepared a 60 minute Listening Party with soundscapes recorded in March from the North to the South Hemisphere. We're c...
Interview: Andy Martin pt.2
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I don't feel like nature is somehow healing me - I feel as if my body is remembering what it's supposed to be like.” Earth.fm’s Wind Is the ...
Interview: Andy Martin pt. 1
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Earth.fm’s Earth Is the Original Radio podcast - the first of a two-parter! - the site’s curator, Melissa Pons has a wide-rangi...
Interview: Chris Treviño
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new turn around the sun and a new episode, this month’s guest being Chris Treviño, a field recordist and sound designer from Michigan with a back...
Interview: Jo Kennedy
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Say hello to December with this month's episode, in which we welcome creative sound artist Jo Kennedy, co-director of Yorkshire Sound Women Network an...
Interview: David de la Haye
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome back to the Wind Is the Original Radio podcast! We have been longing to return and are so happy to kick-start this new phase with Da...
Java’s Last Rainforest
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded in the misty montane rainforest of Gunung Halimun National Park, this recording features subtle birdsong and the sounds of a distant mountain...
A Secretive Night in a Canyon
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A place dominated and overseen by large feathered creatures, acrobatic corvids and smaller virtuosos. Nearer the ground, the arched-formations of rock...
Gentle Wind at Dusk in the Savannah
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The breeze bring some freshness in the evening during the hottest month of the year. This is the time when wildlife gets out of the hides to feed. ...
Taman Negara at Night
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Taman Negara is a large area of protected rainforest on the heart of the Malaysian peninsula and home to an abundance of wildlife including tigers, le...
Western Cascade Frog Pond
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Spring in the Pacific Northwest is typically a damp rainy season. Snowmelt from the Cascade mountains and frequent cloud cover causes streams, and riv...
A Very Long Chat
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I have a tradition of recording for the week around Summer Solstice every year. The long days and extended twilights draw out the liveliest and most e...
A Lively Spring Afternoon in the Montado
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded in the Spring of 2022, this soundscape has all the indicators of a warm day: pollinators, a variety of crickets, occasional frogs and a rich ...
Island Forest with High Tide Approaching
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You can hear the tide slowly approaching in the distance, with activity from all sort of birds in this patch of green in one of the busiest islands of...
Bushland Afternoon
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Afternoon ambience from bushland in the New England tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. A light breeze blows through the canopy of the eu...
Dawn Birds in the Sage
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
High and dry. There is hardly anything here. No water, no trees, just a small two-track (dirt road where people have driven enough times to form a roa...
Golden Mantled Howlers at Dawn
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded in December 2023 on my first — but not last — trip through Costa Rica, a troop of Golden Mantled Howler Monkeys in Costa Rica’s Parque ...
Ascending Into The Night
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This segment of a dusk chorus in the summer-arid region of Vale do Côa, Portugal, is somewhat a reverse story from the dawn chorus recorded in the sa...
Pinsapo Forest Dawn
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dawn chorus from a rare pinsapo (Spanish fir) forest in the mountains of Andalucia. Starting softly at first light, the song of a Eurasian Robin is th...
Dawn Chorus in Zarnesti with Tawny Owl
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recoding by Seán Ronayne, in Zarnesti, Romania
Trumpeter Swans on a Winter’s Eve
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A coveted silence drenches the deep valley. Winter at it’s finest. With closed eyes, I discern the distant white noise of a creek flowing beneath th...
Dawn Chorus in the Savannah
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A classic quiet Savannah dawn chorus from this part of the world. Recording by Sounding Wild at the Outamba-Kilimi National Park, Sierra Leone
Midnight Insect Chorus Near Corcovado
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in the mid-Atlantic states of the US and with roots and time lived in the Deep South, few sounds bring me to a state of transcendence like ...
Evening Chorus in the Amani Nature Forest Reserve
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recently we visited a beautiful paradise in the Eastern Arc Forests of Tanzania—the Amani Nature Forest Reserve. This reserve protects the unique, b...
Danum Valley Afternoon
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A breezy afternoon in the lowland rainforest of Sabah, Borneo. Although the birdsong is more sparse than earlier in the day, many birds are active ...
Full Moon Reef at LINI Aquaculture and Reef Restoration Project
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An excerpt made from a long form stereo reef recording made at full moon in June 2018 above the reef at LINI, North Bali. LINI is an NGO dedicated ...
Hippopotamus Preparing for the Night
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded in Sierra Leone by Sounding Wild
A Jittery Dawn Chorus With Golden Orioles, Red-Backed Shrikes and Nightingales
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does Nature sing on a place that has seen blood spilled in behalf of kingdoms’ territory dispute, species extinction and the abandonment of lan...
Earth Day Listening Party Replay
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello friends! This episode is a very special edition - a replay of our Deep Listening Party on Earth day in YouTube. This version is a 2 hour e...
Autumn Night
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This recording was made at night, in a valley. About 400 meters away from the recorder there is a big Fig Tree. It is a very, very big tree and eve...
Incoming Tide at Gold Bluffs Beach
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This was recorded on a cloudy evening during an incoming tide on Gold Bluffs Beach in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, part of Redwood National and ...
Pine Forest
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The sounds of a pine forest in spring in Dalarna county, Sweden. A variety of bird species sing including Common Chaffinch, Tree Pipit, Great Spotted ...
Falling Snowflakes
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the first weeks of 2024, finally, a real winter has arrived with beautiful snowfall and temperatures of -19°C. A day before that, I packed my gear...
Spring Thunderstorm at White Deer Lake
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This was recorded on a spring day in the forest near White Deer Lake, a seasonal lake in Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The lake is large and shal...
Lake in an Ecuadorian Jungle
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Early in the morning I walk along a remote lake in Ecuador’s lower Amazon basin. Far from a city, road, or town, the sounds here are all natural. Th...
Pambar Shola
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To record a soundscape characteristic of this region – and attempt to encapsulate my observational thoughts and views as a soundscape recordist – ...
Artist Talks: Axel Drioli
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eight episodes went by so fast! Symbolically, this episode with Axel was the first one to be recorded. Since our conversation, Axel travelled south in...
Thailand Rainforest Night
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A calm nocturnal ambience recorded in the rainy season in a tropical rainforest in western Thailand. At this time of year, the frogs are very active a...
Artist Talks: Rüdiger Ortiz-Álvarez
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome to our 7th episode of this special series - only one left for this season to close! Today we have a super informative and fun con...
Quiet Morning Chorus at the Kirandich Dam
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recording by Martha Mutiso
Artist Talks: Félix Blume
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome to our 6th episode of this special series. Today we have a wonderful conversation with award winning sound artist Félix Blume, w...
Night at the Wacoyo Indigenous Reserve
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This soundscape was recorded in an indigenous reserve called Wacoyo, in Meta (Colombia), after the sunset. You can hear insects from all over the vall...
Artist Talks: Christine Hass
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new month of episodes starts with Christine Hass, a field biologist with a background on social behaviour of mammals. She has extensive recordings a...
Amphibian Chorus
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recording in the Masaai Mara by Martha Mutiso
Artist Talks: Seán Ronayne
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! This is already our fourth episode of the series Artist Talks. Our guest today is Seán Ronayne, an ornithologist and zoologist with a ...
Nocturnal Lullaby in the Atlantic Forest
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded in January 2017 in Minas Gerais by Melissa Pons
Artist Talks: Darcy Spidle
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our third episode of this series where we have conversations with the best nature listeners in the world. In this episode, our guest Dar...
A Hot Summer Day in a Mountain Meadow
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded in Croatia by Ivo Vicic
Artist Talks: Chris Hails
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our second episode of this series where we have conversations with the best nature listeners in the world. In this episode, Chris Hails ...
Midday Chorus in the Amani Forest
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recording by Martha Mutiso in Tanzania
Artist Talks: Mélia Roger
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our very first episode of this series where we have conversations with the best nature listeners in the world. In this episode, Mélia R...
Aerial Ballet
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Upon my odyssey for wisdom, destiny cast me ashore on the isle of Little Tobago, a haven where avian secrets awaited, concealed within the artistry of...
Morning Chorus in the Masai Mara
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded by Martha Mutiso in Kenya
Gentle Waves of the Black Sea
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A very calm secluded bay on the Bulgarian Black Sea, with gentle waves crashing at the stone shore. Recoded by Jan Brelih, in Bulgaria
Migration Dawn Chorus
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, birds that breed in Europe and Asia migrate south to spend the winter in Africa, passing over Tsavo National Park in Kenya between late Se...
Summer Afternoon in the Atlantic Forest
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
End of December and it is a pleasant afternoon. It is hot and there are a few white clouds. It rained the previous days and will continue to rain thro...
Deluge at Dawn
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zarnesti has given me what are undoubtedly my fondest memories of our trip to Romania. It was such a beautiful place – so quiet, so verdant and just...
Awa Khadd Himalayan Stream
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Unprecedented and chaotically distributed rainfall in the monsoon of 2023 led to devastating floods in the Himalayan regions, including the Kangra Val...
Australia’s Cloud Forest
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The upland rainforests of far-north Queensland are home to many species found nowhere else. This recording features the sounds of birds and insects al...
A Night with Grey Wolves
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A nocturnal recording that gives you a “look” into the secret life of Wolves in nature. We are in the mountain slopes, and the recording spo...
Dawn Chorus in Tarangire
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I travelled to Tarangire National Park in Northern Tanzania just at the end of the dry season and beginning of the rainy season in November. Covering ...
Lowland Rainforest Dawn in New Guinea
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A vivid dawn chorus from the steamy forests of lowland West Papua. While the rainforest is still dark, Hooded Butcherbirds sing melodic fluty phrases ...
Spring Dawn Chorus in the Forest Meadow
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a remote mountain valley, around 1250m above sea level, the surrounding mountains create a nice natural echo felt through the songs of the dawn cho...
Wind Through Aspens in the Fall
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Early fall. Yellow leaves fall from the aspen trees. Quiet between gusts, cool wind blowing from the north. A change of season is in the air. Warm day...
Relaxing Ghana Rainforest
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Enjoy this soothing calm calling of birds in the Ankasa rainforest with calm water rushing in the background. The thick canopy of the trees shielded m...
Pacific Ocean Waves
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Experience the raw power of the Pacific Ocean as powerful waves crash upon a secluded sandy beach. The coastline is located in the Colombian region of...
Ankasa Rainforest Dawn Chorus
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 5 a.m. at the Ankasa Rainforest. I woke up at around 4:30 a.m. and made my way through the thick darkness to capture the jungle ambience at daw...
Life of Birds in a Calm Evening Spring
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A relaxing evening song of birds in the a forested hill area near a big lake. The most common birds on this recording are: Common cuckoo (Cuculus c...
Sunset at the Shore of a Lake
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s sunset time on the shore of the lake and the last birds of the day fly over the still water. From the treetops I can hear the movement of leave...
Winter Morning in the Atlantic Forest
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is an early August morning. There is some wind and the sky is cloudy. At this time of the year, the Mulungú blooms: there are several of them, ful...
Dawn on an American Prairie
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An inescapable sensation of floating fills my consciousness. A state of lucidity. Not entirely awake but not asleep. Conscious of surrounding ripples,...
Okefenokee Swamp
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Okefenokee is one of the largest, intact swamps in the entire world. There’s only one road into the swamp and it terminates at Stephen C. Foster...
Alpine Thunderstorm
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
!This recording has very high dynamics and so we advise extra care on your listening volume, especially if you are wearing headphones! The area abo...
Nocturnal Fusion Over the Black Pond
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This recording captures the essence of a night spent by a pond during the Flower Moon in the untamed wilderness of the Barycz Valley. The rhythmic amb...
Flocks of Common Starlings Over the Pond with Lê Quan Ninh: Bonus Episode
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our ninth and last bonus episode, for now! In these episodes we have been sharing short segments about nature, sounds, life and poetry for ...
Montane Rainforest
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This recording was made by a small river in Taman Negara, Malaysia, and starts in the early evening with the last birds and cicadas of the day calling...
Black Woodpecker Encounter with Axel Drioli: Bonus episode
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our eighth bonus episode, already! In these episodes we have been sharing short segments about nature, sounds, life and poetry for a moment...
Bamboo Forest Wind
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Finding my way up a muddy path on an Island in the Pacific is an ideal condition for natural listening. A growing cacophony ebbs and flows as the ...
Peepers with Steven: ShepardBonus Episode
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our seventh bonus episode, already! In these episodes we have been sharing short segments about nature, sounds, life and poetry for a momen...
Snow Storm with Powerful Thunder
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A short snowstorm since the arrival until it passed. The recording was done at high altitude in the mountain forest, at the edge of a cabin roof. The ...
Morning Blackbirds with Steven Shepard: Bonus Episode
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our sixth bonus episode, already! Every Tuesday, for the next few weeks, we will share short segments about nature, nature sounds, life and...
Mountain Meadow After Rain
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The morning after rain at tare old-growth Pine forest on 3100m in Indian Himalayas, Sikkim region. The recording was made in the morning after night r...
Gentle Waves with Roger Boughton: Bonus Episode
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our fifth bonus episode! Every Tuesday, for the next few weeks, we will continue to share short segments about nature, nature sounds, life ...
Lesser Kestrels Took Over an Abandoned Building
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A migratory raptor wich spends its foraging time in West Africa and breeds in southern Europe. Here in Doñana, there is a specific place in a daun...
Wasps in my Shed with Roger Boughton: Bonus Episode
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our fourth bonus episode! Every Tuesday, for the next few weeks, we will continue to share short segments about nature, nature sounds, life...
Seal Gully with Roger Boughton: Bonus Episode
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our third bonus episode! Every Tuesday, for the next few weeks, we will continue to share short segments about nature, nature sounds, life ...
Rain Under the Canopy in a Summer Thunderstorm
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The sounds of a summer thunderstorm with soft rain. From under the tree canopy in mountain forest with an altitude of approx. 950m above sea level. Th...
Woodpecker Magic with Steven Shepard: Bonus Episode
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our second bonus episode! Every Tuesday, for the next few weeks, we will continue to share short segments about nature, nature sounds, life...
Evening in the Mountains of Thailand
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded in the cool montane forests of far north-west Thailand, this evening soundscape features the sounds of crickets and a gentle breeze blowing t...