Chronicles

  • ‘Orden natural’, an exhibition by Juan Cortés and David Vélez

    ‘Orden natural’, an exhibition by Juan Cortés and David Vélez

    Orden natural (Valenzuela Klenner Gallery, Bogotá March 20th-April 2nd) To understand and perceive our sensory limitations is often an unusual task. Visually, it would only take to stand in front of the sea to realize the boundaries of the visual…

  • Ground Quarterly – Sound

    Ground Quarterly – Sound

    Issue 30 of Ground Quartely, a magazine by OALA (Ontario Association of Landscape Architects) is dedicated to sound. Here’s the outline: Up Front Information on the Ground Sound:  Subway Station Soundscape Animal control through acoustics TEXT BY CLAIRE NELISCHER Round…

  • A Field Recording Gear List, Based on Interviews with 26 Recordists

    Paul Virostek has been doing a very nice interview series at his site Creative Field Recording, talking with several field recordists, mostly about the gear they use and their processes, techniques, etc.  There’s also another two posts from there: a roundup…

  • Brazil’s Blind Birdman

    BBC News has made a small video on the amazing work of Juan Pablo Culasso, a recordist highly sensible to nature sounds, specially those from birds. Uruguayan Juan Pablo Culasso, 29, has been blind since birth but he has become one…

  • Field Recording: Okarito kiwi

    Great field report from Tim Prebble about his journey to Okarito, New Zealand to record kiwi sounds. If you know anyone from New Zealand you will have likely heard the colloquial use of the word ‘kiwi’ – the kiwi is our…

  • Liminaria 2014: Tracking Borders

    Liminaria 2014: Tracking Borders

    Interesting mini-documentary on the work of Liminaria 2014, featuring interviews with curator Leandro Pisano and sound artists France Jobin (Canada) and Tessa Elieff (Australia). Liminaria aims at narrating the territory of Fortore, a marginal rural region located in the South of…