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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