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Secret Beach Soundwalk

by Chad Crouch

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Have you been to Oregon’s Secret Beach? Trick Question. Which one? The Secret Beach that the internet will point you to, near Brookings, is gorgeous. This small beach with half a dozen large sea stacks rising from the water creating a sheltered bay is iconic. What about the at Oceanside that you walk through a steel door in the side of a hill and through a tunnel? Nope not that one either.

This one is at Roads End in Lincoln City. It’s your typical only-accessible at-low-tide beach and it happens to be Valhalla for agate hunters. There’s also plenty of those beautiful Oregon coat sea stacks—tower rocks rising out of the surf.

On this soundwalk I used a technique that I’ve used at the beach before: basically dangling a stereo pair of mics as close to the lapping waters as safely possible, to capture the details of sound that get lost in the wind and diffused loudness of the surf. I mixed and crossfaded this signal with my binaural recording hat. You’ll hear all kinds of water sounds the manifold sounds of the surf of coarse, also two waterfalls, one drippy cave, tidepools diverting water, a creek flowing through a stony field, churning cauldrons. Lots to hear!

And more time to hear. Originally I was thinking this would be a two part work, roughly 40 minutes per installment. This runs roughly One hour and five minutes.

I typically do Quality Assurance on my mixes at night with headphones. If you’re looking for a soundwalk that will outlast your bedtime busy mind or insomnia, this is the one for you. This one always knocked me out. In fact it wasn’t until I was submitting it that I discovered the last couple minutes of the recording originally had me fielding a phone call. Thank goodness I double checked!

This is another soundwalk that doesn’t capture much wildlife. As a consequence it’s more abstract. I feel like this is the big brother to the last episode. Electric Piano takes center stage, electric guitar and synthesizer weave in and out. Acoustic piano steps in for the gentle passages. The composition is flowy and searching. More pushing and pulling with moody chords.

Anyway it’s a super size soundwalk that I’m pleased to share with you!

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released August 11, 2023

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