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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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The Field Reporter 1st anniversary One year ago The Field Reporter published its first review (Load by Signed Liden). 365 days later and 172 reviews later we are proud to see that we have grown in many ways: the number…
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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…
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Toshiya Tsunoda
Awesome post at musicofsound dedicated to the great work of recordist/artist Toshiya Tsunoda: My field recordings feature the transmission of vibrations, and any location can be interesting. The question is what is happening in actual vibrations in a specific place. I…
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The Birth of Wildlife Sound Recordings
A few months ago The Field Reporter published a very interesting research wrote by Cheryl Tipp on The Birth of Wildlife Sound Recordings. Part I – Introduction Part II – Recording in the Wild Part III – Mimicry Part IV…
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Field Recording, the Preternatural Experience
Interesting post at Sounds Like Noise talking about the preternatural experience of field recording. Preternatural: that which appears outside or beyond the natural; exceeding what is regular. Industrialisation often seems in opposition to the act of deep listening, nonetheless the…