Not unlike the home theater industry, there exist manufacturer and consumer perpetuated "equipment envy" in the world of pro audio for music or film. Shiny boxes with fancy specs, fancy wiring and ...

Though different endeavours, field recording and found sound recording are dealt with as one topic for much of what follows, but what is the difference? Field recording refers to audio captured in its ...

Digital audio equipment and software maker Apogee on Tuesday announced the debut of MetaRecorder, an iOS field recording app with advanced features like multi-track support, tagging, file management ...

In this edition of The Out Door, we explore the wide world of field recordings. We talk about trains in Mexico and the music of honeybees with British sound-scape artist Chris Watson, take a sonic ...

For as long as recording equipment has existed, we've been pointing it at hippos, shoving it down anthills, and dropping it into the sea—to learn more about animal behavior, document changes in ...

Queensland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. In 1889, an eight-year old boy made a recording of a Common Sharma using his father’s wax cylinder recorder.

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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 ...

(click thumbnail)KUT(FM) political reporter Ben Philpott used the FlashMic to cover a special session of the Texas legislature, when independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman submitted ...

The shattered glass and rubbley beach sand whipped up at my bare legs so hard it had tore my flesh. Hurricane force winds had stirred up these earthen micro bullets and sent them careening so hard ...