Thomas Rex Beverly’s 100+ nature sound libraries have been used extensively in the world of television, games, apps, museum exhibits and on high-profile film productions such as CODA, Antman: Quantumania, The Last of Us, Jack Ryan, Star Trek: Picard, Yellowstone, and Frozen II. As a nature sound recordist and composer with over ten years of experience, Beverly explores our evolving planet through sound. Through his field recordings, music, and sound art, he inspires listeners and hopes to help preserve the precious natural landscapes and their breath-taking soundscapes for future generations.
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In Bowed Cactus, get a visceral collection of bowed and plucked cactus from the deserts of the American Southwest. Take a violin bow to a cactus spine and hear guttural screeches with intense, physical energy. Hear plucked needles popping in rich organic granulation. Hear thick, bowed spines growling like supernatural animals and single needles stuttering with real grit.
This library offers you an extensive collection of sounds from a unique organic sound source. Cactus sounds are incredibly soft and intimate in real life, but when recorded from two inches they morph into otherworldly creatures brimming with ultrasonic energy. I hope you are excited by their sound designing potential and I can’t wait to hear what you create!
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Thomas’ unique and well recorded sounds have helped me create the sonic universe of Star Trek.
– Tim Farrell (Golden Reel winning Sound Designer and Sound Effects Editor – Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Discover, Star Trek: Short Treks, The Walking Dead, Crash)
For high quality content you can’t get better than Tom’s nature recordings. They are pristine and detailed. I always struggle to find the right combination of ambiences when I’m building a scene but my first port of call is always Tom’s library. I wish all field recordists were as professional, dedicated and passionate as he is.
– Stuart McCowan (Emmy winning sound editor – Avatar, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Sherlock, Oblivion)
After constant searching and many failed recording attempts of my own; I have finally found the beautiful winds and tones I have been missing in Tom’s libraries!
– Filipe Messeder (EMMY winning Sound Effects Editor – Free Solo, The Lighthouse)
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In this special audio interview, Thomas Rex Beverly shares some of his favorite field recordings, gives you stories from his many sonic adventures, tells you about his special recording techniques and details how he captured some really unusual natural sounds:
The Sounds of the Alaskan Arctic
Go on Alaskan recording adventures with field recordist Thomas Rex Beverly:
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The Sounds of the Alaskan Arctic
Go on Alaskan recording adventures with field recordist Thomas Rex Beverly:
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Exploring our planet through sound:
Sound recordist Thomas Rex Beverly uses Sennheiser gear to capture calving glaciers, underwater icebergs, and an ice xylophone in Greenland:
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Recording the Sounds of Disappearing Glaciers
Thomas Rex Beverly shares his recording adventures in the Rocky Mountains:
Recording the strange sounds of Ringing Rocks
How Thomas Rex Beverly captured the sounds of the mysterious ringing rocks for a new SFX library:
Why rocks rock for creature sound design – with Thomas Rex Beverly
Hear the results of independent field recordist Thomas Rex Beverly’s intense experimentation with rock sound recording:
• A return to nature: sonic explorer Thomas Rex Beverly captures inspiring soundscapes of the Cascade mountain range with Sennheiser
• Tonebenders Podcast – How to Record Rain
• Supernatural Cactus Creatures
• Field Recording Tips – Short, practical field recording advice for beginners to established pros
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