“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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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” […]
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 […]
If you have been reading this blog for a while, you might know that last month I spend 12 days at a Wolf Center recording over a dozen of wolves and their mysterious forests. This was a very challenging field recording trip, from coordinating recording times with daily volunteering tasks to listening, cataloguing and editing […]
Hi! I started to write this post shortly after I launched a small funding campaign on Ko-Fi that would be able to cover the expenses of spending 12 days at Grupo Lobo. However, in very short time, mostly due to the amazing sound community on Twitter, the total amount was covered. You can find al […]
Welcome to your sensory revolution, thanks to the pandemic I found this article to be a great start! The main stand point is that of the sensory world and how the shift we have assisted since the lockdown has no known precedents. Coronavirus: Birdsong seems louder and the ravens are more relaxed Besides the extreme […]
A very nice article by Harley Brown talking about environmentalism, ecology, the pandemic and the healing factors of nature sounds. It was lovely to talk to Harley and I’m happy beyond words to have been featured! Featuring also: Lucrecia Dalt, Aaron Dilloway, Carina Pesch, Bernie Krause and Gordon Hempton. Read the article here.
Thank you everyone who has read and commented on part 1 and welcome to the second part of this article in which I describe my workflow after I listened through everything, placed markers and regions for specific information and taken notes aside. The main reason why listening through, cleaning and marking before displaying the clips […]
Melissa Pons 