Listening
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#WLD2013
We’re still celebrating World Listening Day! Below is a compilation of several interesting online projects and activities: Wired Lab Mix Tesla Radio: La semana de la escucha activista Sounds from South America at RadioLibre Soundwalk Cementery Road, Linlithgo, NY Gordon…
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Excerpt of “Silence”, a film about field recording
The Wire has published a nice excerpt from a film about field recording, called Silence. Watch an excerpt from a film tracing the fictional travels of a field recordist through north west Ireland. Silence is reviewed by Dan Barrow in The Wire 354. Silence tells the…
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Bernie Krause TEDTalk: The Voice of the Natural World
Bernie Krause TEDTalk is finally online. Bernie Krause has been recording wild soundscapes — the wind in the trees, the chirping of birds, the subtle sounds of insect larvae — for 45 years. In that time, he has seen many…
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World Listening Month at Sounding Out! Blog
Sounding Out! blog has been doing his annual editorial feature on listening, dedicated specially to this month’s celebration for the World Listening Day. They’re published two articles this year such as this nice post called Wayback Sound Machine: Sound Through…
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Going Deaf, Gordon Hempton Races to Finish His “Quiet Planet” Work
In a very touching interview, Gordon Hempton, known as “The SoundTracker” talks about an illness he has that is leaving him deaf. Can’t imagine how hard it should be for him (or any other person) to lose their listening faculties,…
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An Antidote to Indifference, Field Recording Special by Cheryl Tipp
Cheryl Tipp, the curator of wildlife sound recordings at the British Library has contributed to a special edition of An Antidote to Indifference fanzine, dedicated to field recording.