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A Beginner’s Guide to Field Recording, by Lawrence English
Great article by Lawrence English at FACT: A Beginner’s guide to field recording In Peter Szendy’s provocative book Listening, he presents two related questions: “Can one make a listening listened to? Can I transmit my listening, unique as it is?” It’s…
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Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening
Interesting blog post at Center for Humans & Nature by Eric Leonardson on ethics, listening and acoustic ecology. If we are to find a way out of the current impasse, learning how to listen and developing an ethic of listening may be…
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The Field Recordist As Obsessive, by Derek Walmsley
Interesting article by Derek Walmsley at The Wire. “Some recordists are like hoarders, bringing home whatever they find outside with little discrimination as to what’s worth preserving and what’s not.” Derek Walmsley sorts through The Wire’s post bag in search…
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The Sound That Circled the Earth Four Times
On 27 August 1883, the Earth let out a noise louder than any it has made since. It was 10:02 AM local time when the sound emerged from the island of Krakatoa, which sits between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.…
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Handheld Recorders Comparison
Sonic Sense has published a review of several handheld recorders. Full article
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Sound Studies: A Discipline?
Melle Jan Kromhout has published a nice article at Sounding Out! blog about the sound studies discipline, as discussed in the Sound Signatures Winter School, Amsterdam, January 2014. Has the ever-nascent field of sound studies finally “grown up”? After years of intellectual…