A tv press conference (Context: http:terraininstruments.org/WMT.jpg) delayed this mono reel-to-reel recording. The protective tarp has yet to be hoisted; however, the image context does show Host Earl Eldridge of Cedar Rapids Iowa facing the foldable card table. This setup eventually was itself dwarfed by drooping weeping willow leaves directly over us and against the back hedge row. Six DSP +/-synced, copy/pasted monos, were assembled into this 2 track. Throughout, I was huddled and shared the recorder space w/a sock-covered RCA-74 Jr.Velocity ribbon microphone and Shure ProMic Mixer: 4 in/1 out to the mono Nagra 4.2L recorder. #s2-4 inputs included a variety of sensors. A Frap & its preamp was attached with warmed bees wax to a 9 gauge wire between two trees approximately hundred feet across our front garden, a micro-light weight Barcus-Berry used wax and was pressed against stainless steel wire recorder wire laced across a window frame= Draft Monitor. A fingernail-sized strain gauge was gently wedged into a dry bark crack of a willow so as to monitor wind-stirred, tortional tree trunk vibrations. The willows released heavy droplets on the 9 gauge during the slow warm rain. Unexpectedly the lightning wipes out some of the audio (via the mic line in). The miniscule in/out window draft sound provides a scale marker and these are preempted by meandering Thor soundings. An eventual electrical ground short competes with the fade out.

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