El Coyote
El Coyote, a great essay published by sound artist David Velez at The Field Reporter: ‘El Coyote’ is a sonic, visual and written essay based on my experience in the touristic complex of Bijao in Panama on January of 2013. In Bijao the tension between the ecosystem and the intrusive architecture was evident from the moment I arrived: this...
Chris Watson On Listening, Recording Nature Sounds
Some stuff from Chris Watson. Interesting as always: An article at The Quietus on recording the music of the natural world: In Cabaret Voltaire, Chris Watson used tape loops and field recordings as a pioneer of industrial music. Now, he is a sound recordist for BBC nature programmes who also works on installations, films and...
World’s Largest Natural Sound Archive Available Online
Cornell University has launched a fascinating (and huge) online library of nature sounds, which can be listened at MacaulayLibrary.org “This is one of the greatest research and conservation resources at the Cornell Lab,” said Budney. “And through its digitization we’ve swung the doors open on it in a way that wasn’t possible 10 or 20 years...
Paul Virostek on SFX Databasing, Field Recording E-Book
The fourth episode of the Tonebenders sound design podcast is dedicated to talk about sound effects mastering and databasing, with a special guest: Paul Virostek, who recently released an e-book on field recording. In Episode 4, we welcome special guest Paul Virostek to join regulars Dustin Camillari, Timothy Muirhead and Rene Coronado to talk about...
Natural Silence
“A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,” he writes in a new book, The Great Animal Orchestra. “Little by little the vast orchestra of life, the chorus of the natural world, is in the process of being quietened. There has been a massive decrease in...
Field Notes #3: Traces
Gruenrekorder has published the third edition of their Field Notes publication. Articles: 1. Tom Lawrence: The Waterbeetles of Pollardstown Fen 2. Scott Sherk: Phonography: Art or Documentation? 3. Jim Cummings: My Ears will Never be the Same 4. Marcus Kürten et al.: ‘Something Which Lasts Passes By’ – A Collection of Hearing Memories 5. Hein Schoer: The Sounding Museum –...
The Birth of Wildlife Sound Recordings
A few months ago The Field Reporter published a very interesting research wrote by Cheryl Tipp on The Birth of Wildlife Sound Recordings. Part I – Introduction Part II – Recording in the Wild Part III – Mimicry Part IV – Vocabulary and the meaning of sounds Part V - Identification Guides + The Demise...
PNG
Fantastic post by Tim Prebble about a field recording trip he had at PNG (Papua New Guinea). Well it was a field recording trip that was equals parts inspiring & exhausting! By the end of the week I had recorded total data of: 744 24 bit 96kHz 4 channel audio = 70.74GB 722 24 bit...