Chronicles

  • 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…

  • Stephen Vitiello – Listening with Intent

    Stephen Vitiello – Listening with Intent

    I came across this post of Earth | Ear with an inspiring (30min long) video about the work of sound artist and musician Stephen Vitiello and his sound installation “The Sound of Red Earth“. Installed in the historic former Brickworks…

  • 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…

  • Recording a New Voice for the MGM Lion

    Recording a New Voice for the MGM Lion

    Great story from Radium Audio on recording lions for doing the new voice of Leo, the iconic MGM lion. Big cats play games just like their smaller household cousins – lions don’t just roar on demand. Bad-Boy and Shy-Boy, only…

  • Binaural Walk through Waterloo Station, by Michael Maroussas

    Michael Maroussas has published a great post about a recording he recently did on a train station, using binaural microphones: I bought myself a new pair of mics for Christmas – MM-BSM-8 In-Ear Binaural Microphones (mine are a new, smaller design…

  • Richard Devine Recording Sounds of Marine Life

    Richard Devine Recording Sounds of Marine Life

    Richard Devine has published some great sounds from a recent underwater recording session he had, where he recorded several marine animals, including dolphins, shrimp feeding, and hypostomus. This weekend we went to Crystal Waters Florida and recorded various sounds of…