Field Recording Workshop/Residency at Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa
Francisco López and James Webb are announcing a new field recording workshop, this time in Limpopo, South Africa. ‘Sonic Mmabolela’ is a 2-week workshop/residency for professional and semiprofessional sound artists and composers with previous experience in the area of sound experimentation and field recordings. It takes place at Mmabolela Reserve, in the Limpopo province of...
Video Diary with Simon Whetham
I had the honor of collaborating with Simon Whetham during his recent visit to my city, Medellin (Colombia) and also enjoyed the wide variety of activities and experiments he presented at the Museum of Antioquia University, where he did installations and workshops dedicated to explore found objects, ancient instruments, spaces and of course, field recordings....
Andrew Roth, Audio Archaeologist
Andrew Roth has been hunting 19th-century sounds. A self-described “audio archaeologist,” this fall he tracked down and recorded the musical instruments, bawdy songs and period slang that made up the actual sounds of San Francisco during the Gold Rush, for a new exhibit called “Boomtown.” Full article
Dave Ruddick – Sound In The Field
Sound Recordist Dave Ruddick goes through his set-up and explains how he records surround sound in the field. This clip was shot at Tongass National Forest where Ruddick was handling sound for the film Fortress of the Bears. Fortress of the Bears Via Colin Hunter’s Audio Lounge
Recording Ultimate Foliage
Frank Bry has published a very nice post about the recording process of his newly released sfx library called Ultimate Foliage. I’ve been asked a few times, “You’re recording leaves? Why?” My short answer was because they are there. The long answer is because I’ve always needed some leaf-type sounds in my video game work....
Make a Mic from Baking Soda & Cream of Tartar
Colin Cunningham at MakeZine has posted this great video on literally cooking up a contact microphone (rochelle salt crystals) from baking soda and cream of tartar. Piezoelectric materials are about as close to magic as you can get. They turn physical pressure into electricity and can even turn electricity into physical pressure – an amazing...
Tim Nielsen’s Microphone Collection
Sound designer and recordist Tim Nielsen has written a great article for Designing Sound, talking about his addiction to microphones and sharing his thoughts about the following setups he uses: Schoeps MS Rig: CMC6XT Bodies with MK41 Mid and MK8 Side Sennheiser MS Rig: MKH50 Mid with MKH30 Side. Sennheiser MKH416 Shotgun Schoeps CMIT-5U Shotgun...
Alan Lamb Interview
Chris Watson interviews Alan Lamb for The Wire, BBC Radio 4. Download The Music of the Wires: wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson is captivated by the extraordinary sounds of the wind and the weather as they play on vast lengths of fencing wire stretched across the Australian landscape. Alan Lamb is an artist, biomedical research...
USBPre2: Part1 – First Impressions
About ten days ago i received my USBPre2 after waiting for three (long!) weeks. This is not a technical review but more about my impressions and thoughts after integrating it in to my home and field recording setup. 1. Why? I had been using the Mbox2 with my laptop (MacBook Pro) and desperately needed to...
Summary and Sounds of the MoKS Nature Recording Workshop
The group spent one early morning and one full evening out in the field, analyzing and collecting sounds. We then listened to the recordings that were made an identified the animal species that were heard. Comparisons of different recording setups were helpful to in defining both aesthetic and scientific approaches to the sounds that were...
Impulse Response A/B Test
One of the greatest features of the convolution reverb is recreating the natural acoustics of a space and that’s what I’m going to prove in the following test. This can be achieved by simply downloading Impulse Responses (IR) online, or recording your own (IR) by following the Altiverb manual, this will help you to set...
Frank Bry’s Techniques for Thunderstom Recording
Frank Bry has published a very cool post talking about his experiences on recording thunderstorms, along with examples, tips and more. Most of my thunder recordings are made with my Sanken CSS-5 microphone sitting right outside my front door. I sit in my kitchen with the recorder and a glass of single malt scotch and...