Insane gathering of crows near a small river, in Alexandro Humbold park on the lush eastern coast of Cuba, not far from where Cristopher Colombus is said to have landed in the new world.

A Ganges riverside ritual in holy Varanasi (Benares): a hallucinatory cacaophony of clanging bells, under which boy ascetics spun oil lamps in synchronized fire devotion (arati) to a crowd of hundreds...

San Francisco had massive anti-war protests in the months leading up to the Iraq invasion. This recording documents the police helicopters constantly circling our warehouse downtown to monitor nearby Market street, which was jammed with protestors.

A rattling and rumbling and jingling horsecart, as heard from on top, along the river in Bagan. Bagan ranks with Angkor Wat as one of the architectural trasures of ancient South East Asia. Scattered on a plain at a bend in the Ayerwaddy River, thousands of stone stupas fill the landscape, some towering many stories high.

Workers lighten the burden of their repair work on the Johkahng, sacred temple complex in the heart of what remains of Tibetan Lhasa. Part-way through you can hear a few of the workers trying to get my attention by whistling, I pretended not to hear so I could keep recording :)!

Bagan ranks with Angkor Wat as one of the architectural trasures of ancient South East Asia. Scattered on a plain at a bend in the Ayerwaddy River, thousands of stone stupas fill the landscape, some towering many stories high, In this recording, herders bring goats and cows through the dry fields surrounding the temples in the golden hour of late afternoon -- you can hear their shouts echoing of a nearby huge stone temple.

Nats are the animist protector spirits of Burma; like the living gods of Haiti in voudon, Nats possess their devotees in music- and intoxicant- fueled ceremonies. My wife and I were welcomed when we wandered into this ceremony and ushered to the front of the tent, where possessed transvestites fed us fiery liquor and fruit.

The wonderful chaos of several automatically looping advertising come-ons, played in front of a market store in industrious and hot Wuhan, China.

My wife swings on a swingset on the sea cliff near the Castillo de San Pedro del Morro. This sounds splendid slowed down a few octaves

Penned pigs owned by a tobacco farmer in the lush vale of Vinales, in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. This near-binaural recording benefits greatly from headphone listening -- at one point a pig nibbles my hair.