Last fall, the CBC program Inside the Music featured a wonderful hour-long exploration of field recording, produced by noted National Geographic writer Wade Davis.  The people he chose to focus on were a Who’s Who of EarthEar artists and friends: Lisa Walker, Doug Quin, David Rothenberg, and Hildegard Westerkamp.  You can’t do much better than that!
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David Rothenberg just sent me the link to this video on YouTube, one of the fruits of his recent participation in an Arctic Circle artists’ residency aboard the good ship Noorderlicht.  It’s got some great water/ice sounds with hypnotic imagery, compelling polar bear footage, and of course David’s clarinet and spoken-word reflections, on the north, the [...]

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My sound partner Catherine Girardeau and I recently purchased a DSM microphone from Sonic Studios and have recorded quite a few soundscapes and effects. The Smithsonian institution’s National Museum of the American Indian hired us create a pair of soundwalks exploring the landscape and [...]

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Stills from The Ground Falls Away: expansion, 2008, 2-channel video and sound installation, continuous loop/ variable length.
Los Angeles based artist Andrew Freeman and I installed a new piece titled The Ground Falls Away: expansion, at Las Cienegas Projects on October 14th. Link over the the gallery here. Andrew is also exhibiting photographs from a different [...]

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This past summer I had the pleasure of traveling to New Caledonia (an island nation northeast of Australia, between New Zealand and New Guinea), where I was part of a team that was developing a methodology and protocol for remote acoustic sensing to help monitor populations of the Kagu, a ground-nesting bird, and eventually other [...]

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Before moving to New Mexico, I worked at a multimedia studio in Minneapolis and one of the projects I was involved in there was to create an hour-long mix of environmental recordings intended to give the impression of moving through adjacent spaces.  It was a relaxation CD that some corporation was paying for to give [...]

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