Field recording occupies a liminal space between the tactile world we inhabit and the sonic canvas that musicians, filmmakers, and scholars manipulate inside studios. At its core, it is the ...

Since 2014, hundreds of artists have been making field recordings, transforming them into new sounds, and sending both files to the online project Cities and Memory. Cities and Memory’s global sound ...

The LA Phil's new-music marathon includes 12 hours of live performances and art installations in every corner of Walt Disney Concert Hall on November 16. This year's festival, curated by Pulitzer ...

Albums featuring chattering animals and roaring weather systems have blurred the boundaries of music and chance, new age and noise. By Christopher R. Weingarten The world of “field recordings” is ...

A man perches on a rock, holding a small microphone over a roaring river, water tumbling over boulders, flanked by lush jungle and hanging vines. The Andes Mountains rise up on all sides around him, ...

This stunning, tree-lined sidewalk at the edge of the Aspen Ideas Festival campus was the perfect location for this Field Recording. While it looked great, it was quiet for a very short time. Before ...

From the metropolitan cityscape of South London to the caves and coastlines of Cornwall, Laura Misch is channelling her environment into adventurously experimental music with saxophone, electronics ...

The TP–7 Field Recorder can also connect to a smartphone and convert voice recordings to editable text through a free app. Reading time 2 minutes Teenage Engineering’s days of churning out $50 ...