In germany the car signal for police and fire fighters is called the Martinshorn. There are two different versions of the alarm depending on the driving environment (city or countryside). In this recording you hear an alarm switching between both versions every second for some odd reason. So either this thing was just broken or…

Nothing to report recently from my neighborhood, so let’s have a listen to some older recordings. First one is a nearby lightning strike from june 13th 2020. You can even hear the time difference between lightning and thunder in this recording.

Recorded July 3rd, 2022 at quarter past midnight. It is still not clear what exactly happened in our neighborhood, most likely this spectacular breakthrough has been caused by a drunken guy.

Seems a lot of animal action happens at my house today. I’m not sure if these cats are just struggling or even make love. Enjoy anyway.

Another short one from recent microphone archives. This amuses me somehow.

The song is called "Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht" by Drafi Deutscher in 1965.

Another physics lesson, today you’ll hear an example of the so-called Doppler effect. Every few days this stupid jerk comes around to hoot at someone in our neighborhood.

If an aircraft enters supersonic velocity, it breaks the sound barrier and causes a sonic boom. Most of the noise is rather infrasonic, and you feel it more than you hear it, the actual bang is not that loud. However the noise can cause people to be frightened. I am living in an area where…