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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…
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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…
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Sandy
Michael Raphael has published several recordings of hurricane Sandy. This past Monday was a rather hectic day on the East Coast, especially for New York and New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy started to bear down on Sunday night, and by Monday…
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David Michael Interview
David Michael Interview at The Field Reporter ‘The slaughter house’ is a controversial phonographic release composed by sound artist David Michael and published by german label Gruenrekorder. On this work the artist captured sounds on a slaughterhouse in Alabama which on…
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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…
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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…