Last year I spent 2 weeks in the South African savanna attending the annual Sonic Mmabolela workshop (as mentioned in previous blog posts). I was pleasantly surprised to find fellow sound recordist and game audio-er Daan Hendriks among the 8 workshop attendees. We got along quite well over the two weeks and decided to work on a few libraries together.

While we were there we mainly recorded the local ambience and wildlife (more on this soon), but on one hot afternoon we managed to organize a vehicle recording session with one of the 4X4s that were used for game drives on the reserve. This was a 4-liter petrol Toyota Land Cruiser built in 1990 that still drove well, although it had seen better days as seen in the photos.