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  • Max Lachmann on Car Recording

    Max Lachmann on Car Recording

    Nice interview at Track Time Audio with Max Lachmann of Pole Position, talking about car recording. I once went with a driver recording his fast sport car on a highway, and he just couldn’t drive. He was bouncing all over…

  • Tokafi: Interview with Luís Antero

    Tokafi: Interview with Luís Antero

    Tokafi has published a great interview with composer and recordist Luís Antero. Globalism is often an illusion, with most of the traveling done on laptops. Within the field recording scene, on the other hand, there is a definite trend towards…

  • Reflections on Sound

    Reflections on Sound

    Great post at Soundlandscapes featuring sounds from a wherry in Sunderland, along with an interesting reflection on the importance and historical value of field recording. Sound gives us information but it also creates emotion. Sound lets us paint our own…

  • Matt Davis on Field Recording

    Matt Davis on Field Recording

    Tokafi has republished a great interview that Jez Riley French had some time ago with musician and recordist Matt Davis, talking about field recording. When & why did you become interested in field recording? At the time it felt necessary…

  • Six Recordists on Soundscape Exploration

    Brilliant post at Sounding Out! featuring short interviews with six sound artists/recordists talking about their approach to field recording/sound exploration. The list includes Jez riley French, Rui Costa, Catherine Clover, Andrea Williams, Hildegard Westerkamp and Eric Leonardson. “It devolves on…

  • Easy Ways to Make Sound Maps

    Easy Ways to Make Sound Maps

    London Sound Survey has published an interesting article about two services which can be used to easlily put recordings into a map. IF YOU’VE EVER tried wading through the Google Maps API documentation, you might wish you had the programming…