A couple of weeks ago, I watched The Singing Planet, a documentary film by Liz McKenzie about the voices of the natural world. This is a highly simplified summary that doesn’t make it justice at all. I had the pleasure to review and write an article about it on earth.fm, which I am a curator […]
Upon the kind invitation from David Woje to be a guest in his podcast Ambisonic Spaces, I took myself to think deeply – or rather to organize my thoughts – about how my personal practice has mutated throughout these years. As I changed, evolved, or moved as a person, so has my practice. It is […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Melissa Pons 