Rainstorm in Borneo
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Album Description
Camp Leakey, located in the southwest quadrant of Borneo, has been home to Biruté Galdikas’ world-famous orangutan rehabilitation site for some years. Aside from orangutans, the forest vibrates with the sounds of many birds, insects, and other mammals. The air becomes very thick and still just before the typical afternoon storms. Creatures become very quiet as the tension mounts. Then, all hell breaks loose and the drama of the tropics becomes apparent in ways only a sound recording can capture. Aprés le deluge, as the storm cells move off toward the horizon, the soundscape returns, once again, revitalized by the cleansing and renewal that has just occurred. RAINSTORM in BORNEO encompasses a day in the rainforest of southwest part of the island. At first light, birds begin to stir and gibbons invoke the dawn with their languorous duets. Reverberant sound fills the forest from every perspective and every vocal organism. As the sun passes the noon meridian, storm clouds gather on the horizon, thicken, and move in our direction. The forest becomes still in anticipation of coming events. We are not disappointed as the first cloudbursts shatter the calm, draw nearer, and then, BOOM!, we are hit with a very impressive strike that lands only 20 meters from where we are sheltered in a grove of ferns.
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