soundscape and acoustic ecology in the san francisco bay area
In 2009, Composer, performer, improviser, recordist and instrument builder Cheryl Leonard travelled to Palmer Station, Antarctica in search of sounds and music. She returned with a wealth of recordings, stories, and materials for building musical instruments. Cheryl shared her work at BASEbot on Feb 21, 2010. In her own words, Cheryl “creates experimental music using amplified […]
Nature sound recordist Gordon Hempton shares some of his beautiful recordings, and discusses his One Square Inch of Silence project, including his recent book.
Sound Designer James LeBrecht shares a few of his most favorite and most personally meaningful sound recordings. Here’s the setup: Jim is sitting in the center of Dan Dugan’s control panel, with Pro Tools behind him and faders for a quadrophonic monitoring system. On and off, he talks and plays sounds which he’s gathered for […]
Soundscapes Real and Imagined from the San Francisco Bay Area – A two-hour mix of soundscape recordings and compositions native to the San Francisco Bay Area. A 2-hour sound collage for radio hosted by Jeremiah Moore and Aaron Ximm Orignally broadcast February 22, 2009 on free103point9.org, an episode of Giant Ear, the radio voice of […]
Audio: Stories and sounds from Andrew Roth's forthcoming Natural Sounds of Japan
An hour-long lecture in two parts from field recordist Chris Watson. Part One defines a personal ontology for recordings. Part Two features an in-depth account of recent work with four-channel surround sound hydrophone recording.