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 […]
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.