EST. 2017 / HOBART, TAS a one-person library

Listening, slowly, to wild places.

Propartnerpitch is a one-person field recording library, captured over weeks at a time across the Australian wilderness. Cicadas in Kakadu wetlands, rainforest canopy in the Daintree, granite surf on the Esperance coast, and outback nights in central NT. Cleared for film, game audio, and ambient music.

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FIELD STEM 04 / 14 Kakadu wetlands, dusk cicadas
01:42 / 04:32
96kHz / 24bit / MS
a real recording. paused for the page.
282stems in the catalogue
4volumes in rotation
96 kHz24-bit WAV stereo
9 yrsin the field
* 01 / The Volumes

Four landscapes,
tracked slowly.

Each volume is a single trip. I drive in, set up, stay until the library is finished, and come home with what is left. Single volumes A$59, or skip the maths and take the Atlas.

Kakadu wetlands at dusk, paperbark trees and lily pads on still water Kakadu, Sept 2024
TAPE 01 / SIDE A · KAKADU NP, NT

Kakadu Wetlands.

Eighty-four stems from nine days in the Kakadu floodplains. Cicadas at full chorus, billabong frogs after the dusk rain, paperbark canopy creaking at last light, and a long passage of distant thunder rolling over the escarpment.

"The cicadas come up so suddenly you can almost hear them switch on. Levels were cooked twice in the first hour."

  • 84 stems
  • 96 / 24-bit
  • MS stereo
  • 2.1 GB
A$59 AUD
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Looking up through dense rainforest canopy in Daintree National Park Daintree, May 2023
TAPE 02 / SIDE A · DAINTREE, FAR NORTH QLD

Daintree Rainforest.

Seventy-six stems from a week in the oldest continuously-surviving rainforest on earth. Dawn chorus through fan palms, creek beds, fig wasps under the canopy, and the slow rustle of cassowary plums dropping at three in the morning.

"You stop trying to record the rainforest and start trying to record what is about to happen next."

  • 76 stems
  • 96 / 24-bit
  • XY stereo
  • 1.9 GB
A$59 AUD
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Granite headland on the Esperance coastline at sunrise, weathered boulders and turquoise water Lucky Bay, Feb 2023
TAPE 03 / SIDE B · ESPERANCE, WA

Esperance Coastline.

Sixty-four stems across five sites along the Esperance coast. Granite headland surf, kelp wash on Cape Le Grand, southern ocean wind into the windbreaks at Lucky Bay, and gull flocks over Twilight Beach at first light.

"Pure white sand makes you walk slowly. The boom mic stand sinks half a foot if you stop paying attention."

  • 64 stems
  • 96 / 24-bit
  • MS stereo
  • 1.6 GB
A$59 AUD
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Red Australian outback under starry sky with milky way overhead Central NT, July 2024
TAPE 04 / SIDE B · CENTRAL NT

Outback Nights.

Fifty-eight stems pulled from eleven nights in central NT. Red-earth wind across spinifex, dingo calls a kilometre out, fire crackle close-mic'd at the camp, and long passages of deep silence broken only by the call of mopoke owls.

"Out here the noise floor is the recording. You stop fighting it and let the silence write the room."

  • 58 stems
  • 96 / 24-bit
  • XY stereo
  • 1.4 GB
A$59 AUD
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* 02 / The Field Atlas

One atlas.
Four volumes.
200 bonus stems.

Everything Propartnerpitch has tracked since 2017, in a single download. 282 location stems plus 200 ambient bonus stems pulled from session reels. The Atlas is what film composers and game audio teams come back for.

  • Vol. 01 - Kakadu WetlandsA$59
  • Vol. 02 - Daintree RainforestA$59
  • Vol. 03 - Esperance CoastlineA$59
  • Vol. 04 - Outback NightsA$59
  • + 200 ambient bonus stemsincluded
A$169 A$236 save A$67
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Australian dollars. GST included where applicable. Instant delivery.

* 03 / The Studio

From a desk
in Hobart.

Propartnerpitch is run from a small first-floor room above a bookshop on Battery Point, looking down toward Salamanca and the Derwent. The work happens elsewhere. I drive a 4WD with a roof tent, a Sound Devices MixPre, a pair of Sennheiser MKH 8040s, and stay until the library is finished. Started in 2017 with a single trip out to Cradle Mountain. Nine years later the library is what is left of those trips.

“ The first hour on a new site is always wrong. The mics know it before I do. So I sit, drink the thermos, and let the place forget I am there. K. Brookes, recordist
  1. 01
    Recorded on location. Every stem is on-site. No foley, no library swaps, no resampling. If a track is labelled "Lucky Bay 5am", that is what you are hearing.
  2. 02
    Cleared for commercial use. A perpetual royalty-free licence is included with every volume. Score a feature, ship a game, release an ambient record. No credit footnotes required.
  3. 03
    Tagged for the work. BWF metadata on every stem. Source location, time, weather, and microphone configuration. Searchable in Soundminer, Pro Tools, and Reaper without re-tagging.
  4. 04
    Lifetime updates. I add to the volumes after every return trip. If you own a volume you get the additions, free, sent through the same download link.
A matte field recorder and shotgun microphone on a stand in a remote eucalyptus forest clearing at golden hour desk above the bookshop, Battery Point
* 04 / Letters from listeners

In scores.
In games.
In records.

Six notes from people using Propartnerpitch stems in real work. Six rotated polaroids. Pinned to the studio corkboard.

recorded summer 2024

★★★★★

"The Kakadu cicadas are sitting in the title sequence of a feature I'm scoring right now. Two layers, one panned hard, untouched. They behave like a synth pad you cannot fake."

Naomi Park Melbourne / film composer on Vol. 01 Kakadu Wetlands

my first morning on shift

★★★★★

"Bought the Atlas the night I shipped a build, used the Daintree dawn chorus the next morning. Replaced six weeks of placeholder ambience with one drag-and-drop."

Hiro Tanaka Tokyo / game audio designer on the Field Atlas

three days, fifteen cuts

★★★★★

"Esperance is the one. Scored a coastal documentary in three days because every transition was already in the library. The southern ocean wind file is now in three of my templates."

Tom Aldridge Sydney / re-recording mixer on Vol. 03 Esperance Coastline

closed Logic, went outside

★★★★★

"Outback Nights is so quiet I had to dial my own monitoring up to find the room. The mopoke owl 47 minutes in stopped me in my tracks."

Mira Volkov Berlin / ambient producer on Vol. 04 Outback Nights

licence counsel approved on the first read

★★★★★

"My licence counsel approved the language without a single edit. That is not normal. The sound design team pulled stems straight into a console game release with no friction."

Aoife Murray Dublin / studio audio lead on the Field Atlas

Reaper opens the slate, no questions

★★★★★

"The metadata alone is worth the price. Reaper opens the file and the slate is right there. Location, time, weather. I do not have to ask anyone anything."

Daniel Reyes Brooklyn / podcast producer on Vol. 02 Daintree Rainforest
* 05 / Studio hours

Bespoke trips,
licence questions,
install help.

If you need a specific habitat, a specific bird call, or a long-form ambience cut to brief, get in touch. I take on a small number of bespoke trips each year. Replies within one business day, from Hobart.

StudioBattery Point, Hobart
HoursMon-Fri, 9am to 5pm AEST
Emailinfo@propartnerpitch.com
WhereHobart, Tasmania, Australia
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