Texts
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Sound, Listening and Place: The Aesthetic Dilemma, by Barry Truax
A purely aesthetic approach may be problematic when artists wish to deal with the external world as part of their work. The work of R. Murray Schafer in formulating soundscape studies is described, as well as the author’s extension of…
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Intuitive Recording: An Exclusive Interview with Jez riley French
Jez riley French is a composer, musician and artist from East Yorkshire, UK. For the past three decades he has published, performed and exhibited his work on a wide variety of places around the world, including France, Austria, Japan, Corea,…
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Turning the World into Art
Pitchfork has published a brilliant article about field recording, including interviews with Art Rosenbaum, Ernst Karel and Chris Watson. In this edition of The Out Door, we explore the wide world of field recordings. We talk about trains in Mexico…
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The Story Behind Matthew Herbert’s “One Pig”
Interesting video where Matthew Herbert talks about the making of his fantastic (and controversial) album “One Pig“, which tell the story of the life of one pig, from birth to death. In the video, Matthew talks about each of the…
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Sound and Location: An Exclusive Interview with Edu Comelles
Spanish artist Edu Comelles works on sound composition since 2006. His works have been published by various netlabels such as Resting Bell, Impulsive Habitat and Audiotalaia (created by him), and he’s involved in different collective and individual projects involving sound composition…
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Using Rode Lavaliers for Field Recording
Jez-Riley French recently started a new blog dedicated to test field recording equipment, where he just published some posts with recordings and opinions about the Rode lavalier microphones for field recording. so, having taken the Rode Lavalier mics to the…