Tag: Field recording

I like interesting sounds, and whenever possible I like to record them and share them. When I do, they’ll be tagged here. If you’re interested then you should also take a look at my field recordings page, which you can find via the menu > Creative > Field Recording.

Sounds of our Shores: Sounds of our Shores

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This is a great idea in my opinion. It is a collaboration between the British Library, the National Trust, the National Trust for Scotland and audioBoom Ltd to create an archive of recordings of the seaside. It’s a wonderful idea and I’m hoping to get to submit some stuff for it at some point this year.

I finished reading ‘In the field’, and these are a few things I thought

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I’ve found this book inspiring at times, interesting, and once or twice, frustrating. It is a series of interviews with a number of people involved in field recording. It asks them a series of questions about their practice and why they record and for the most part the responses are very well put together.

For someone who has dabbled with field recording on and off for a long time I found this inspiring and illuminating. Some of the reasons given for recording and for what makes a good recording where superb. But the book isn’t just about recording, and in fact, it is very light on any kind of technical detail, which I suppose should come as no surprise as it is subtitled ‘the art of field recording’.

Quite a number of the interviewees talked extensively about listening as well as recording. This is something that I found really interesting and it’s made me think a lot more about the sounds we (I) experience every day. It’s so easy to overlook sounds that you hear all the time and not appreciate them or explore them, and in many ways recording is a way to do just that.

So the book has given me a lot to think about, and some things to follow up on too. I’m intrigued to find out where it’ll take me next.

Bees

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Bees
Quite a lot of bees
close up of bees
And another close up

I was fascinated to see these bees at a local flower show especially given all the news there is in the press about bees dying. They were very beautiful and the noise they made was so interesting I wish I’d had the chance to record them.