In August I hiked and camped in the Pyrenees and it triggered a set of questions, many related to field recoding. Here’s an essay I wrote about it. This is a repost from earth.fm — Altitude, and an almost complete absence of human intervention. How do you face such grandiosity without any mundane contemporary distraction? […]
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Doubts and wanderings of a field recordist / entry two
A very needed event happened – it rained. Fears have been growing that it is less frequent or less strong than what is needed. They say it’s becoming a desert while feelings of nostalgia are often and easily muttered between cigarettes and drinks with eyes shinning, whatever the time of the day is, as its […]
Doubts and wanderings of a field recordist / entry one
Yesterday I noticed how much the soundscape changed along with all the colours. I landed here out of the grey, 360 days ago, with shreds of my life items packed between a broken suitcase and another one that belonged to my grandfather; my recording equipment weighted in my traveller backpack still with dirt from many […]
Guest DJ at WFMU’s Radio Row
Last night, my first guest mix aired at the great WFMU’s Radio Row. Invited by Olivia Bradley-Skill, I was super happy to put this together. Just a few months before, I’ve worked on another mix (which hasn’t aired yet), and I had no idea what to expect but I came to love the process so […]
THE ART OF FIELD RECORDING – Bernie Krause and Melissa Pons
The Great Animal Orchestra was one of the books about field recording I took more pleasure and knowledge from. A lot of what I looked for in field recording was expressed here, with lightness, amusement with a new level of environmental consciousness. And so, as you can imagine, it was with great joy that I […]
“you wanted to speak about darkness?”
“Relax and listen slow”: that’s how Adriene, in The Blind Tourist Podcast, opens our long, oneiric and almost too deep conversation for a warm countryside afternoon for me, a NYC morning for Adriene. It’s obvious that this sweet site of mine serves not only the purposes of resource sharing but also an accepted self-promotion that […]
“Loving our work, self-care & recording the world”
Hi, hello! I know it has been a while, but here I come with some updates and resources for you. This summer, yours truly has been invited to a handful of awesome podcasts. All within slightly different approaches although centred in my field recording activity. The first took place with Akash Thakkar, who you might […]
Updates and thoughts on people vs nature
Hello friends and visitors from another world! This is a very spontaneous entry that I wanted to share with you, instead of keeping it to a personal journal, or more likely spinning in my mind. You can think of it as an update to what I have been up to and some thoughts on life, […]
How to Capture Meaningful and Efficient Field Recordings
Hi there! I wrote a new article about field recording practice that is based on my experience and practices I have been shaping. It’s interesting to look back at my first projects and understand how much my listening and methods have evolved. As I have started to read and study about ethnography and “listening slower” […]
Duologue: A Conversation with Melissa Pons
Hi! This is a quick note to let you know about this interview conducted by Brian, for his excellent blog Stationary Travels. I have following his selections and reviews for a long while and I found out beautiful and diverse music and field recording artists through Brian’s website and so it was a pleasure to […]
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