Field Recordings - S&D

Nice collection of field recordings from India: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broos/Field_Recordings_from_India/

http://thefieldreporter.wordpress.com/

there's this self-absorbed artworld quality to a lot of the trappings and discourse of fieldreporter-style field recording that consistently irritates me, especially when i go to find something and discover that it's available -for money-. like, i understand the reasons for even field recorders and sound artists to sell recordings, be compensated for their time, their creative work, have their perspective honored, and for their recordings to be embedded in meaning-making practices like having titles and packaging and lifestyle marketing blurbage and little philosophical reflections like the white cards next to the installations in galleries, and i get all the post-cagean post-duchampian rationales for the extended criteria for the art object, it's not supposed to be any different—

but it still seems like there's something… incongruous, at least, about commodifying what would otherwise be one of the most modest, least insistently 'artistic' uses of sound around. something that seems essentially self-effacing has all kinds of ego- and social- junk laid right back over it.

cosine

plus there's the tediously constant pair of nostrums

1. u really need to undo some of ur listening habits

2. oho u thought this recording was real! actually there was a very sophisticated process

like, sure, but, really? when that's connected to a zen-style mindfulness schtick i can get the practice-minded aspect of it, nothing new, always the same, still work on self to do, but when it touches on more of an artistic challenging-the-audience critique-of-, my bad temper clouds everything else and makes the schtick seem like posturing or worse, charlatanism that trades on the relative oddity of being preoccupied with field recording and hour-long stretches of the sound of almost nothing

i just want to listen to recordings of spaces, without fuckery, and without being beaten over the head with nerd laws

http://www.musicfromtheice.blogspot.com/2012/02/sounds-from-yosemites-frozen-lakes.html

unbelievable booming & crackling sounds. usually lakes that are this completely frozen are also covered with snow and difficult to record with hydrophones, but due to the drought (and the fact that all of yosemite's roads were still snowfree and open in january) cheryl leonard got some unbelievable recordings

did I mention that these recordings were unbelievable

other recent listening: http://www.discogs.com/No-Artist-The-Lyrebirds-Of-Tidbinbilla/release/2908085

& if you haven't heard cheryl's other music, it's magic: http://www.musicfromtheice.blogspot.com/2013/12/new-instrument.html

just got round to this, the yosemite ice sounds truly fantastic

Does anyone on here actually, um, record field recordings?

Pondering buying one of these ... Zoom H2n Portable Recorder

i actually use on old sony minidisc recorder.

What do you *actually* record? I often think "I'd love a recording of those church bells" when I'm on holiday and kind of wish I'd been able to record the starlings at Otmoor the other week. I'm trying to decide how much enjoyment I would get out of recording (sometimes I think a lot).

i record them on my iphone :)

I've heard good things about the Zoom, also heard good things about the stereo condenser mics that you can plug into your phone. I still use my old Roland Edirol, or an app called Smart Voice Recorder on my phone. Or, for best results when I'm not lazy, this:

http://https%3A//pbs.twimg.com/media/CaFd-3EWAAY7kx_.jpg

The zoom is a brilliant budget option. I'm not sure you'd need much else.

Fwiw, I started to record a bunch of things (I got it to record a nearby rookery) and I quite quickly got a bit bored of it.

I used to do this sort of thing (this is 15 years ago! Jesus. Sharp MD recorder and small-capsule binaural mics)...

https://soundcloud.com/michaeljones-5/se18-woolwich

I should do it again.

Ta, all.

Anyway, new Simon Scott tape here:

http://touchshop.org/product_info.php?products_id=804

Any thoughts on Kate Carr's recordings?

Might be of interest:

https://boingboing.net/2017/02/06/10-hours-of-ambient-noise-from.html

Can anyone remember the name of a recording of *ice melting*, probably released sometime in the nineties?

Google not really helping as lots of people seem to have recorded ice ... but this was actually released.

not from the 90s but... maybe this?
https://www.discogs.com/Marc-Namblard-Chants-Of-Frozen-Lakes/release/1337021

what the that white noise arctic ocean icebreaker thing sounds amazing!

looks great on HDTV too

Baikal Ice by Peter Cusack?
Fathom by Douglas Quinn?

Not sure/don't recall about cracking ice sounds, but both made in icy environments. Fathom is underwater recordings at the poles.

It's Quin. Autocorrect strikes again.

It wasn't this ... I don't actually think this much *happened* (but I quite like this):

https://taalem.bandcamp.com/album/hollow-river-alm-89

It was this (released later than I thought):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jFZ_pvSnAA

Thanks all.

https://flagdayrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-black-isle

The Black Isle by Serbian composer Manja Ristić. Enjoyed getting totally immersed into this last night.

swedish lidl have released an album with field recordings from lidl

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Get in there, Saer!

I'm a little (very) confused by e.g. Lidl and Lego doing field recordings/AMSR albums in recent years and making them so long. And yet I want MORE

ASMR

I wish they weren't just playlists I wish I could have Lidl on the shelf particularly as I split 50-50 between Aldi and Lidl as I cannot afford Tesco atm