EST. 2017 / ST. JOHN'S, NL 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 Canadian wilderness. Frog chorus in the Peace-Athabasca delta, cedar canopy in the Great Bear, granite surf on the Cape Breton coast, and tundra nights in the Tombstone Range. Cleared for film, game audio, and ambient music.

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FIELD STEM 04 / 14 Wood Buffalo wetlands, dusk frogs
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 C$59, or skip the math and take the Atlas.

Wood Buffalo wetlands at dusk, black spruce trees and lily pads on still water Peace-Athabasca, July 2024
TAPE 01 / SIDE A · WOOD BUFFALO NP, NT

Wood Buffalo Wetlands.

Eighty-four stems from nine days in the Peace-Athabasca delta. Boreal frog chorus at full pitch, sandhill cranes after the dusk rain, black spruce creaking at last light, and a long passage of distant thunder rolling over the salt plains.

"The frogs 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
C$59 CAD
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Looking up through dense rainforest canopy in the Great Bear Rainforest Great Bear, June 2023
TAPE 02 / SIDE A · GREAT BEAR, BC COAST

Great Bear Rainforest.

Seventy-six stems from a week in the largest intact temperate rainforest on earth. Dawn chorus through western red cedar, salmon spawning streams, ravens calling under the canopy, and the slow drip of moss-soaked branches 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
C$59 CAD
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Granite headland on the Cape Breton coastline at sunrise, weathered boulders and Atlantic surf Ingonish, Oct 2023
TAPE 03 / SIDE B · CAPE BRETON HIGHLANDS, NS

Cape Breton Coastline.

Sixty-four stems across five sites along the Cabot Trail. Granite headland surf, kelp wash on Black Brook Beach, Cabot Strait wind through the spruce stands at Ingonish, and gannet flocks over Cape Smokey at first light.

"Cold North Atlantic salt makes you walk slowly. The boom mic stand sinks half a foot in the wet sand if you stop paying attention."

  • 64 stems
  • 96 / 24-bit
  • MS stereo
  • 1.6 GB
C$59 CAD
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Tombstone tundra under starry sky with milky way overhead Tombstone, Sept 2024
TAPE 04 / SIDE B · TOMBSTONE TERR. PARK, YT

Tombstone Nights.

Fifty-eight stems pulled from eleven nights in the Tombstone Range. Cold tundra wind across muskeg, wolves calling a kilometre out, fire crackle close-mic'd at the camp, and long passages of deep silence broken only by the call of boreal 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
C$59 CAD
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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 - Wood Buffalo WetlandsC$59
  • Vol. 02 - Great Bear RainforestC$59
  • Vol. 03 - Cape Breton CoastlineC$59
  • Vol. 04 - Tombstone NightsC$59
  • + 200 ambient bonus stemsincluded
C$169 C$236 save C$67
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* 03 / The Studio

From a desk
in St. John's.

Propartnerpitch is run from a small first-floor room above a bookshop on the Battery, looking down toward Signal Hill and the Narrows. The work happens elsewhere. I drive a 4x4 with a rooftop 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 Gros Morne. 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 "Ingonish 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 boreal forest clearing at golden hour desk above the bookshop, the Battery
* 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 Wood Buffalo frog chorus is 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 Toronto / film composer on Vol. 01 Wood Buffalo Wetlands

my first morning on shift

★★★★★

"Bought the Atlas the night I shipped a build, used the Great Bear 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

★★★★★

"Cape Breton is the one. Scored a coastal documentary in three days because every transition was already in the library. The Cabot Strait wind file is now in three of my templates."

Tom Aldridge Vancouver / re-recording mixer on Vol. 03 Cape Breton Coastline

closed Logic, went outside

★★★★★

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

Mira Volkov Berlin / ambient producer on Vol. 04 Tombstone 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 Great Bear 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 St. John's.

StudioThe Battery, St. John's
HoursMon-Fri, 9am to 5pm NT
Emailinfo@propartnerpitch.com
WhereSt. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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