These broadcast recordings were made by several CENSE members during the annual Reveil Dawn Chorus radio event on May 5th, 2025. The event is a 24 hour continuous broadcast that mixes live audio from environments around the planet. Reveil was initiated and organized by a group of sound artists and activists known as the Soundcamp Collective. They collaborate for many years with numerous institutions, public radio stations and initiatives around the globe, including the Locus Sonus art collective of the University of Aix-en-Provence or radio aporee.org. The Locus Sonus and aporee provide a technical system consisting of open microphones and a streaming servers, securing the means to live-stream from various places around the globe.

Members of CENSE have taken part in this years Reveil project and generously contributed their recordings from live streams. On this edition, you hear the similarities and differences between the dawn choruses of Romania, Czechia, Slovenia, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Poland to name a few.

We would like to thank all who woke up very early in the morning to make recordings, edit and provide their contributions for this CENSE compilation#2. The works selected were edited and mastered by John Grzinich and thanks to zvukac for continued narrow casting, Grant Smith and others from Soundtent to maintain the project.

(Cover photo by John Grzinich)

List of recordings:

1. Anamaria Pravicencu - Cismigiu Gardens, Bucharest 10:01

2. Bostjan Perovšek - Hills around Cerkno, 05:36

3. Dorota Blaszczak - Nowe Zalubice#1, before Reveil, 08:18

4. Dorota Blaszczak - Nowe Zalubice#2, 03:44

5. Guy van Belle - WaterStreamsDawn, live stream Part 1, 07:55

6. Guy van Belle - WaterStreamsDawn, live stream Part 2, 08:06

7. Jan Krtička - Liberec-Radčice, 11:05

8. John Grzinich - Otteni Veski, Dawn Chorus, 11:20

9. Cmiter - Tiché údolí, Roztoky, Prague. 06:31

10. Martin Lauer - Cabin by a Creek, Jiřetín pod Bukovou, 04:50

11. Michal Kindernay - Sounds of a Garden, Skryje, 13:24

12. Peter Cusack - Fauler See#1, Berlin, 04:33

13. Peter Cusack - Fauler See#2, Berlin, 04:33

14. Slavek Kwi - Soundctuary Cappaduff, 08:26

15. Tomáš Šenkyřík - Forest Dusk, Rusava - Hrklávka, 07:57

LINK TO THE ALBUM: Cense Dawn Chorus-2025

(recordings are free to download, and you can purchaise - support the Cense Project, if you like)

The compilation from CENSE Reveil 2021 was reedited and republished here:

cense-dawn-chorus-2021